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The Daily Grind: If it were 2003 again, which MMO would you play?
Fun hypothetical: Let's say that all of us -- including Massively Overpowered -- were thrown back in time 12 years to 2003. There's no...
Star Citizen suffers huge asset leak, answers community questions
It's not been the best week for Star Citizen. The upcoming space sim suffered a massive 48 GB data leak after a community manager...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s awful patch 3.2.1 Marauder and Sentinel changes
I like to consider myself a measured person. I try not to give into overblown rants and statements that I cannot take back. Too...
Help Oceanic Blade & Soul fans by signing this petition
Some folks from fan site Blade & Soul Dojo have started a petition that asks NCsoft to consider an Oceanic server for its upcoming...
The Daily Grind: How can MMOs design for both vets and newbies?
This morning's Daily Grind question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Specus, who asks,
I've seen many games where new players have trouble joining a...
Roll a Warlock in Dungeons and Dragons Online next month
Time to roll up a new character in Dungeons and Dragons Online! In a new producer's letter, Robert Ciccolini said that the team will...
The Daily Grind: Did the Blade & Soul announcement improve your outlook on MMOs?
So, Blade & Soul! Huzzah, and stuff. I don't know about you, but NCsoft's heading-west announcement has reinvigorated my inner MMO fan, at least...
One Shots: My imaginary friends
Here's a fun thought: What if we aren't actually playing MMOs? What if we're just sitting in front of blank screens, creating fantasy worlds...
WRUP: My only raiding story from Star Wars: The Old Republic edition
A friend asked me to come with her guild to run some endgame raid or another. I don't remember what it was. Whatever raid...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel alone in your games?
As one or two people have pointed out, MMOs are multiplayer by their very definition -- and massively so. Yet even if you're in...
BioWare posts update on SWTOR’s Season 5 win-trading
BioWare community manager Eric Musco posted a brief update on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums yesterday concerning trolling and win-trading in Season...
Blade & Soul’s announcement livestream features gameplay and Q&A
Surely by now you've heard that Blade & Soul is heading west. You probably even read our hands-on impressions from a recent NCsoft event....
Allods Online looks for approval on Steam Greenlight
Allods Online is looking to join the not-very-exclusive Steam club by going through the greenlight process. Right now the game is up on Steam...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a World of Warcraft progression server?
Classic servers and progression servers are on my mind lately. EverQuest just got yet another progression server; it had launch issues, but it's up...
Massively Overthinking: Nasty labels for players in MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from an anonymous Kickstarter donor, who wanted to talk about excessive namecalling jargon as it pertains to groups...
Lineage II starts work on an EU classic server
After NCsoft solicited the Lineage II playerbase last month about whether or not it wanted a classic server in Europe, the community has answered...
Crowfall locks down forums for backers only
If you still want to take part in discussions on the official Crowfall forums, you'll have to back the game. The game has locked...
Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson on ArcheAge, community management, and her new role at Trion
Linda "Brasse" Carlson is one of the MMO industry's most beloved community specialists, and genre fans everywhere boggled just a bit when Daybreak laid...
The Daily Grind: Would you watch a movie based on your favorite MMO?
I'm not the biggest World of Warcraft fan. That said, I'm pretty interested to see what Duncan Jones does with the Warcraft movie. This is...
Tree of Life launches early access on May 27th
Nothing like a quick turnaround to pique your interest in a game, right? Tree of Life came out of nowhere to announce that its brightly...
