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SMITE’s Another COG in the Machine patch detailed
Hi-Rez has released a SMITE video update that covers the new Another COG in the Machine patch. Community content manager Kelly Link is your...
Jukebox Heroes: EverQuest Online Adventures
From birth until its ignoble death, EverQuest Online Adventures always lived in the shadow of the EverQuest franchise's wing. As a chunky-looking subscription game on...
Cryptic layoffs alone totaled 18 people
Massively OP has been contacted by a Cryptic employee -- who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed -- about the Perfect...
Line of Defense reevaluates F2P plans after shaky free weekend test
Following a tumultuous free play weekend, Line of Defense creator Derek Smart said that the game may or may not go forward with a...
Tamriel Infinium: Five reasons to return to Elder Scrolls Online
Gamers rarely give an MMO a second chance. Far too often, a game bears forever the impression it earned the first time we played it. When...
Perfect World Entertainment hit with potentially massive layoffs
Layoffs have hit Perfect World Entertainment. It was first rumored in a tweet by Ben PerLee, who had previously worked as PR for the...
The Daily Grind: Does Guild Wars 2 need mounts?
Let me stop you right there: Yes, I know that Guild Wars 2 kinda has mounts. It has a ridable broom and a flying...
An Ingress convention could happen in 2015
Augmented reality MMO Ingress could be heading for its own official convention this year, thanks to the mobile game's popularity and growth.
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Sex and horror will mix in Revival
Revival is definitely aiming for a mature rating, as the horror MMO is also hinting that sex will be a part of the game....
EverQuest kicks off 16th anniversary with player-designed missions today
It was 16 years ago today that EverQuest welcomed players into its 3-D world and in so doing helped to propel MMOs to greater...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO was better than you expected?
I've been dabbling in Ascent: The Space Game here lately, even though I keep telling myself that I'm done with early access titles. It's...
H1Z1’s senior designer maps out the next 12 months
H1Z1 senior game designer Adam Clegg hosts Daybreak's latest dev spotlight video. Clegg, who works mainly on world design, fields a number of community-generated...
One Shots: A clear commute
Sometimes simple can be beautiful. I don't know what it is, exactly, that attracts me to this week's title pic, but I think its...
The Daily Grind: What’s Funcom’s secret project?
When Funcom's Joel Bylos casually announced this week that he was moving on from his role as game director of The Secret World to...
The Game Archaeologist: Ten more facts of EverQuest life circa 1999
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you several stories from EverQuest veterans about what life in the game was like back then....
The Secret World begins its epic forum game with a plea for help
A new forum game is afoot over at The Secret World, as one of the in-game characters, the Stationmaster, posted a cry for help...
WRUP: Two hundred twenty-nine
Welcome back to What Are You Playing, the game where we tell you what we're playing this weekend and then tell you the number...
Hearthstone celebrates its first birthday
Hats and helms off to Hearthstone, as the Warcraft-themed online card game is one year old this week. The team is encouraging the community...
EVE Fanfest will be cold; EVE gets a new artbook
EVE Fanfest 2015 is coming in a little less than a week, and if you can't attend in person, you do have the option...
Pantheon devs release part two of lengthy audiocast
The Pantheon devs got together for a roundtable podcast on February 28th, and they released the second part of the audio clip yesterday. Creative...
