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Tencent’s Victorian gaslamp survivalbox Nightingale finally hits early access today

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Noon-o-clock Eastern time today: That's when survivalbox Nightingale finally arrives to early access, and $29.99 will get you a copy and the download rush...

Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure: The Realm of Dreams episode launches February 27

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The third quarterly chunk of Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure finally has a name and a date: It's called The Realm of...
Among all the many, many ways you are terrible.

Microsoft’s layoffs will result in over 800 cut Activision-Blizzard jobs in March

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As Microsoft workers reel from news of impending mass-layoffs of 1900 employees, we've received more clarity on which specific Activision-Blizzard teams are being slashed...
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The Soapbox: Why I’m OK with ‘missing’ attacks in City of Heroes

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The other day in the MassivelyOP work chat, we were talking about City of Heroes. Shocking, I know. But I've mentioned before that I...
This is some Michael Bay contrast.

Wisdom of Nym: How long until Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion based on patch 6.57?

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I wasn't really thinking about Final Fantasy XIV's patch 6.57 in any real detail because... of course I wasn't. There are some things I...
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Blizzard is laying off over 126 people from its support center in Ireland

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The massive culling of 1,900 workers by Microsoft looks to have had a significant global impact, as Ireland's minister for foreign affairs Michéal Martin...

LOTRO Legendarium: Rethinking LOTRO’s landscape soldiers

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In December 2009, Lord of the Rings Online added one of its most unique side systems with skirmishes. Not only were these instances flexible...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: Steve Danuser was not really the problem with World of Warcraft

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So I don't want to sit here and say "oh, things were going so great" before the news that Steve Danuser had actually left...

Behaviour’s puzzle MMO Islands of Insight has officially launched on Steam

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Last year, we caught wind of a new MMO - and yes, Behaviour Interactive and Lunarch have indeed flagged it as an MMO on...

Perfect Ten: The 10 phases of MMORPG pre-launch hysteria

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One of my private theories about MMO players -- one I'm now making public -- is that we all have the collective memories of...

Valentine’s Day events around the MMORPG world, 2024 edition

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If you discount all the digital gaming Valentines floating around social media this week, it's been a quieter Valentine's Day for MMOs this year...

It looks like the ‘noncore IP’ Daybreak sold for $5.9M is PlanetSide after all

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Yesterday, when we covered EG7's Q4 2023 financials, we highlighted the company's disclosure that Daybreak had sold a "noncore IP" for $5.9M, a move...

Not So Massively: Lightyear Frontier is a charming blend of survivalbox and life sim

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Like many people, I spent a lot of last week downloading and trying demos on Steam's Next Fest. There was one I almost didn't...

Progress Bar: Inside the latest 24-hour pre-alpha test of Pantheon Rise of the Fallen

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This past Saturday was when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen elected to open up its floodgates and let a whole bunch of people into...

EG7 Q4 2023: DCUO’s delayed latest-gen console launch hurt Daybreak’s revenues last quarter

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While bigger games companies continue to flail, EG7 actually managed to grow last year, as its latest investor report demonstrates, with overall revenues up...
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Wisdom of Nym: What the hey is up with Final Fantasy XIV’s Xbox pricing?

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In another theoretical timeline, there's a place where Final Fantasy XIV really would have stepped in it when it subtly noted that the game's...

First Impressions: Nightingale’s survival and realmwalking blend could make it a stand-out in the sub-genre

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Our regular readers know that the survival sandbox sub-genre is suddenly getting very crowded in very short order, which means that the upcoming gaslamp...

Daybreak’s DC Universe Online studio Dimensional Ink is the latest games team hit with layoffs

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The culling of games industry employees continues through the beginning of this year: A list compiled by Kotaku that outlines the over 6,400 layoffs...

LOTRO Legendarium: How to walk away from LOTRO (for a while)

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Even when you love an MMORPG a whole lot, it's rarely feasible to play it as steadily and at the same intensity over the...
I HAVE TO RENEW MY HOUSE COME ON

Vague Patch Notes: MMORPGs and the PC gaming market

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I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...

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