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Black Desert touts one million players, teases Gamescom booth
Kakao is touting its one millionth Black Desert player as it heads to Gamescom later this summer. If you'll be in Cologne for the...
Sea of Thieves shies away from friendly fire and permanent loss
Rare is still feeling out the "emergent world" of Sea of Thieves as the game nears its closed beta testing phase. In an interview...
Pokemon Go players look for better disability options and snag a companion app
Have you ever suffered from depression? Not just being sad, but full-blown clinical depression? It's pretty horrible, and it prevents you from doing much...
The Daily Grind: How do you justify blasting ‘free’ MMORPG content?
An anonymous reader recently sent us an email trying to puzzle out the problem of criticizing a genre full of handouts.
"A lot of games...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares for its final wipe and another telethon
The last data wipe for Shroud of the Avatar is coming very soon. On July 27th, the final wipe will take place, new player-owned...
Blizzard is quietly fighting Overwatch toxicity
If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone.
In an...
The Daily Grind: What do you expect from MMORPG expansions in 2016?
I ran across an intriguing chunk of comments down below Justin's impressions piece on Star Trek Online's latest expansion. One reader said he was...
MMO Mechanics: Creating engaging crafting mechanics
I'm currently bogged down in an over-the-shoulder crafting blur, vicariously depleting gold and recommending several YouTube-approved crazy material gathering runs as I get my...
One Shots: Gentlemen, to evil!
There are some subtle signs that you can look for when you're trying to gauge if you've become truly evil. Conquering small nations for...
Path of Exile preps chat improvements for next week
Path of Exile's chat window is about to become a little more informative, as the team is preparing a few improvements for the system...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tunes from the 1990s
I'll admit that I have a particular fondness for older video game music. I still scour the archives of NES and Genesis libraries for...
The Stream Team: Building an ARK egg farm
The time has come. All the eggs are belong to us all! MassivelyOP's MJ and the MoPark community are coming together in ARK in...
WRUP: The sea edition
I had never really seen the sea before the first time my father took me to Martha's Vineyard. Until I lived there, I certainly...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best eyecandy?
We can quibble about the quality and variety of content in MMORPGs, but I think most of us would agree that visually, online games...
Feast your eyes upon another World of Warcraft: Legion comic book
How are your World of Warcraft: Legion preparations coming? Everyone in the community seems to have his or her own to-do list for the expansion, and...
Pokémon GO becomes the biggest mobile US game of all time
Well, that certainly didn't take long! In just a week, Pokémon GO has overtaken every mobile game in the United States, becoming the biggest title of...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of underwater combat in MMORPGs?
Earlier this week, MOP's Andrew Ross mentioned in his writeup of Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows episode that he was disappointed that...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG trailers of all time
This week's Massively Overthinking should be a fun one -- and hopefully it'll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which...
Explore Shroud of the Avatar’s world with this community web atlas
There's no chance that you're going to get lost when you go exploring Shroud of the Avatar, thanks to a new community project that's...
Marvel Heroes loses one CM but regains another
Break out the hankies and wave them majestically as one of Marvel Heroes' leads embarks on a one-way journey out of the office.
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