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Elder Scrolls Online’s U44 arrives to shake up the PvP meta and introduce two new companions

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As promised, today is launch day for Elder Scrolls Online's update 44 - at least if you're on PC or Mac - and this...

Albion Online adds new open world objectives, Outlands portals, and content in today’s Horizons patch

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Look! Look to the horizons! Do you see? There, rising with the grand golden sun? It's new content arriving to Albion Online! Today players...

Halloween festivities across the MMO world, 2024 edition

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It's weird we keep meeting like this every single year a week before October 31st, right? A strange and unusual coincidence, perhaps even a...
my head hurts

Design Mockument: Alternate trinities in MMORPGs and the challenge of other roles

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The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn't. I came up during the small times...
Cats

Vague Patch Notes: The MMO world you don’t control

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Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I attempted to lay out my thesis for what it means when we say MMOs require other people....
Pnuk

MMO Hype Train: Is Corepunk really ready for prime time?

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Whenever I'm looking at a new MMORPG, there are two important hurdles it must cross to be of interest to me. The first is...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s new 64-bit server was offline all night thanks to build problems

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So Dungeons and Dragons Online's Cormyr server launch yesterday did not exactly go to plan. Readers will recall that Standing Stone Games launched the...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s first 64 bit server and Lanterns of the Mist event are live today

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Cormyr is officially here in Dungeons and Dragons Online today - that's the first 64 bit server the 18-year-old MMORPG has ever had. Studio...
Dudes

Perfect Ten: 2024’s MMO soundtrack themes ranked from worst to best

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Try not to whip your head around all suspicious-like to check out the past 10 months, but 2024 has been a bonanza for MMO...

One week into Aeternum, how is New World doing? Here’s what we know

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Let's take stock of New World Aeternum one week into launch, shall we? Or at least of what we can know for sure, which...

Choose My Adventure: The final push to level cap in Throne & Liberty

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This is probably one of the few times in my personal history with Choose My Adventure when I hit the level cap in the...

Tarisland begins Season One and adds new content with the release of Blight Dragon Elegy

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The PC and mobile MMORPG already had a launch with Season 0, but now it's counting to one and putting out a major content...

NCsoft Korea confirms restructure and layoffs, renames Throne & Liberty team to Studio X

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Last night, we covered the disturbing industry news that NCsoft was planning a major restructure of its Korean branch owing to the long-obvious fact...

Wayfinder officially launches today on PC and PS5 after a year of early access

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It's launch day for multiplayer OARPG Wayfinder, which means it's patch day too for this game that's come such a long way over the...

Stick and Rudder: On CitizenCon day two, Star Citizen talked MMO design and full 1.0 release

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Sure, we've had one day of CitizenCon, but what about second day? The weekend event for the 12 year-old sci-fi sandbox Star Citizen has...

Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen talks tools, gear, social features, and Squadron 42 at CitizenCon day one

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It's that time of year again for fans and followers of Star Citizen to come together in-person and digitally to see what's next in...

LOTRO Legendarium: The rise and fall and rise of Mines of Moria

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With Lord of the Rings Online's Angmar and Mordor progression servers looking forward to entering the first expansion sometime in December, thoughts have once...
Probably as close as we'll get.

Design Mockument: How might we build a Stormlight Archive MMORPG?

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So when I was talking with MOP editor Bree a while back, I mentioned how one of my early ideas for the most recent...

Meta: MassivelyOP is now on Bluesky

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Hello, folks! MassivelyOP is expanding its social media presence once again this week with the proper activation of our Bluesky account. Technically, we've had...
I have a thought.

Vague Patch Notes: MMOs rely on other people – but what does that really mean?

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Now that we're done with Leveling Month in Vague Patch Notes, is there another topic I can turn into a month-and-change of column topics?...

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