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Hyperspace Beacon: So SWTOR’s Update 5.8 happened

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Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched the delayed Update 5.8: Command Authority to the servers. BioWare now offers its first complete operation since...

Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...
Ideas face challenges when born.

Wisdom of Nym: A week after Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka

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It's been a little under a week since the Eureka launch in Final Fantasy XIV, and opinions about the content are pretty universally strong....

EVE Evolved: What pushes EVE Online players to breaking point?

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How many times have you read the comments on an EVE Online article and found someone talking about an experience they had that turned...

EverQuesting: An EverQuest 19th anniversary retrospective and party planner

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There are MMOs that have been around a while, and then there is EverQuest. It's so old school it is old enough to be...
The gates are closed to me.

WoW Factor: The Kul Tiran Druid ‘problem’ in World of Warcraft

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One of the important things to note about World of Warcraft lore is that it's never been static. It will retcon itself six ways...

Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR fans should be excited about Fogbank

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This week, I'm going to depart a little from the usual insights into the world around Star Wars: The Old Republic and talk about...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Up.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka

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I think Naoki Yoshida has severely overestimated how much I wanted to chase after a Scorpion Harness again. One of the things that I mentioned...

Guild Chat Special Edition: Interviewing Guild Wars 2 guild POOF

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which we examine all things guild-related and solve problems faced by fellow members of the Massively...

Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 4

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We are getting right down to it in our look at the top 32 best World of Warcraft tracks. In today's column, we'll be...
lol

WoW Factor: Examining the composition of the Horde

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Last week, we looked at the composition of the Alliance in World of Warcraft. This week, we're looking at the Horde. Makes sense, doesn't...

EverQuesting: Take a swig of EverQuest II’s Brewday festival with this guide

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A festival dedicated to getting sloshed? No, this isn't college life -- it's EverQuest II's Brewday! Every year near St. Patrick's Day, a celebration...

Hyperspace Beacon: Carving up the new SWTOR Conquests

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The original Lead Systems Designer for Star Wars: The Old Republic was a man named Damion Schubert. A friend of mine used to call...

Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it

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With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s A Bug in the System

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Today is the day we've been waiting for: After a short delay, episode 2 of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season, A Bug in...
Thinking over.

Wisdom of Nym: How Final Fantasy XIV’s latest housing war was won and where it got us

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With the removal of the perpetual server restrictions and the opening of personal housing again, Final Fantasy XIV seems to have decided that its...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s March balance update has players excited

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The EVE Online community came down pretty hard on CCP Games at the start of the year, with podcasts, blogs, and the Council of...

Chaos Theory: A guide for Secret World Legends’ new agent network

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Admit it: Ever since your faction handler in Secret World Legends started sending you off on jobs, you've wanted your own underlings to boss...
We're actual size, but it seems much bigger to see.

WoW Factor: Examining the composition of the Alliance

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Watching as speculation and mining swirls around the Mag'har as a future allied race, I can't help but start thinking about the bigger picture...

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