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David Braben of Elite: Dangerous sees physical games going away in two to three years

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Attention, everyone who ordered a physical copy of a video game within the past year: David Braben is coming for your physical games with...

The Daily Grind: Are gaming subs due for a comeback?

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When I first started at Massively-that-was, over 10 years ago now, I remember it being a crash-course not in MMOs, which I knew backward...

Gaming companies from Blizzard to Daybreak stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

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Update: We've been updating the end of this piece with all the online gaming studio statements we can find this week. Sony has apparently decided...
The other side.

Wisdom of Nym: So, if there is a Final Fantasy XVI…

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It's been about a year since I wrote about Naoki Yoshida's mystery project, which still has not actually been announced in any way and...
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Phantasy Star Online 2 is a fun treasure buried under antique contrivances and inconveniences

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When I first booted up Phantasy Star Online 2, the only way to get to a suite of visual options that included making the...

Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing

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One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...

The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel

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It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...

Global Chat: Does SWTOR fail in the end for (Han) soloers?

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As his name suggests, FibroJedi is a big Star Wars: The Old Republic player -- but even so, he is not above criticizing the...

One Shots: Posing is half the battle

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It's not just enough to tote around a legendary weapon in your MMO -- you're going to need to learn that posing is half...

The Survivalist: Astroneer launches persistent multiplayer servers

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Sometimes the gaming gods do listen! Sometimes you do get your wish. Sometimes your heart's desires are granted. And that sometime is now! From day...

Phantasy Star Online 2 offers installation fix suggestions, promises a hitching patch on June 10

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Phantasy Star Online 2 has made good on the promise for more communication it made in its apology for the MMO's botched launch posted...

The Stream Team: Finally flying in the Warframe Railjack revamp

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With so many other Warframe events and activities lately, Massively OP's MJ has yet to dive into the big Railjack revamp. Tonight she's making...

SEGA apologizes for botched Phantasy Star Online 2 launch

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Two days in to the disastrous launch of Phantasy Star Online 2, SEGA finally released a statement and apology - as far as we...

The Daily Grind: Should gamers be entitled to jump MMO queues if they sub?

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The launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor this week was a bit of a bungle, though not one we've never seen before. Launching MMOs...

Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?

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Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...
Sometimes the game hates you trying to understand it.

Final Fantasy XI kicks off its Beat the Heat campaign on June 11

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All heat must be beaten in Final Fantasy XI starting on June 11th. No, that's not when the game is adding some sort of Ambuscade...
Bleak!

Elder Scrolls Online tackles Greymoor bugs, plans Stadia launch June 16

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Since the Greymoor expansion of The Elder Scrolls Online has had a particularly bumpy launch, players have started the necessary evil of working around...

Fallout 76 interview: Bethsoft on One Wasteland, text chat, and other radioactive topics

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After a year and a half of regrettable design and business decisions (not to mention unending castigation in the media and among the community),...
Yeah, it's never happening.

First Impressions: Phantasy Star Online 2’s technical clownshow mangled its PC launch

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Phantasy Star Online 2 is, bar none, the absolute worst experience I have ever had with trying to get a game working on my...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor, Phantasy Star Online 2 PC struggle during launch week

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If you thought Guild Wars 2's No Quarter was going to be the release champion of this big-launch MMO week, you deserve a whole...

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