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PAX West 2019: Examining mental health and community in upcoming MMO Destiny’s Sword
Eager players packed the Washington State Convention Center at this year's PAX West, each greeted with games ranging from high-profile triple-A titles to more...
World of Warcraft’s private servers are emptying in the wake of WoW Classic, but they aren’t empty yet
So, who figured that the people playing World of Warcraft emulators would all jump ship in order to play on the official version of WoW Classic?...
Interview: Star Trek Online’s Al Rivera on Discovery’s Awakening and beyond
The Federation's past is meeting its future this week with the rollout of Awakening for Star Trek Online. Set in the "present" timeline of...
Path of Exile cancels new lockboxes-within-lockboxes after ‘intensely negative’ feedback
So let's play a little round of bad news, good news with Path of Exile. Yesterday, with the Blight expansion not even a week...
MMORTS Million Lords launches tomorrow – check out this exclusive trailer
Here's an MMO new to me and to the site: Million Lords. It's an MMORTS that rolls out of beta tomorrow and into final...
The Daily Grind: What little details delight you about WoW Classic?
My WoW Classic guild is heavily weighted in favor of World of Warcraft veterans who think that we have seen and done it all...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 237: Fallen Earth’s final glorious sunset
Justin and Bree tackle Fallen Earth's sunset, WoW Classic, going back to Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Astellia Online's monetization, CCP's new MMO, City of Heroes, and a mailbag question on swatting.
Choose My Adventure: A stronger, straighter start in Legends of Aria
What a difference a few weeks make.
This past spring when I last toured Legends of Aria for Choose My Adventure, things were a little...
Working As Intended: What it means to be an MMORPG
I am amused and somewhat bewildered to admit that I have my very own pet troll. He follows me around on Reddit to hassle...
Funcom is still working on co-op shooter and multiplayer Dune game, according to Q2 2019 financials
Buried under all the WoW Classic news at the end of August was Funcom's second quarter financial report. Let's rectify our oversight with a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever collected in an MMO?
Back when original-flavor Star Wars Galaxies was alive, I had a bit of an obsession with Ubese shirts. Essentially, they were sleeveless undershirts that...
Space content for SWGemu is still up in the air as devs say a wipe and launch are still ‘a long ways off’
If you've followed the long-running original-flavor Star Wars Galaxies emu community for any length of time, you are surely aware of the emulator that...
City of Heroes Homecoming asks players what they want from a licensed server
Now this is an interesting development, and very possibly a hint at things to come, though there's no official confirmation of legitimacy one way...
The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more popular?
With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I've been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We've spent...
World of Warcraft fans toast the game’s 15th anniversary
As we head into the fall and World of Warcraft's official 15th anniversary, you best believe that Blizzard is going to be milking this...
One Shots: Familiar and welcome lands
Welcome back home! That feels like the sentiment that WoW Classic gave when it launched recently. Players absolutely swarmed to these servers, many of...
The Game Archaeologist: Is it worth the hassle to update graphics in older MMOs?
"I'd play this game again if the graphics were updated."
"If they re-released this game with modern graphics, it would be way more popular."
"The Game...
WRUP: My Internet was out all night so all you get are some facts about piccolos edition
Yep, my Internet was out all night when this would normally have been written. Thus, you will have to enjoy this list of facts...
The Daily Grind: How have other MMO players amused you?
I absolutely love the fact that massively multiplayer titles give me a social experience even when I'm in a room all by myself. Bumping...
The Soapbox: There is no MMO that can fix a broken MMO community
We've heard again and again how the recently launched World of Warcraft: Classic was going to "fix" the MMO community by stripping away modern...
