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MMO studios and publishers large and small come together to support Extra Life 2022

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It's about that time of year when charitable drives are on the minds of many gamers, studios, and publishers, and just as last year...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most challenging boss fight you’ve ever attempted in an MMO?

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If you're a PvP dungeoneer or raider, you probably have at least one good story about a seriously challenging boss. I don't mean the...

EverQuest II opens preorders for December’s Renewal of Ro, EverQuest announces Night of Shadows expansion

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Mainstream gamers might be out of the loop, but MMORPG players know that the EverQuest franchise kicks into high gear every autumn, and we're...

The Game Archaeologist: Dark Ages, the weird lovechild of Celtic lore and Lovecraftian legends

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While the online world was fascinated by "the Big Three" Western MMOs in 1999 -- that would be EverQuest, Ultima Online, and Asheron's Call...

Working As Intended: My 25 years of Ultima Online

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Twenty-five years ago my boyfriend, Paul, and I walked into a shop to find a new game to play together. He picked up this...

EverQuest II’s Renewal of Ro expansion hints at a return to Takish-Hiz

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It's been a little bit weird to have to keep talking about EverQuest II's very much in production expansion and its very much live...

EverQuest II kicks off Secrets of the Sands, the prelude to its unnamed expansion

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While the title of EverQuest II's upcoming 2022 expansion is still under wraps, players can start heading it its direction thanks to a new...

Classic EverQuest introduces new level 100 advanced characters for around 40 bucks

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Daybreak is boosting boosters in classic EverQuest, essentially raising the level of the advanced character players can buy. "New level 100 Heroic Characters are...

The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online

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Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...

The MOP Up: Witness the creation of a Dauntless behemoth

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Dauntless shared a neat video of a collaboration between its players and artists: "Back in April, many of you joined us for a community...

MMO dev Raph Koster disambiguates sandboxes, themeparks, simulation, and stagecraft

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Veteran MMO developer Raph Koster, who himself is working on a sandbox MMO couched in a metaverse, is back with another dev blog this...
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Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects

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Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....

Pantheon calls Brad McQuaid’s old friend out of retirement to finish the game

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A new article over at the International Business Times put together an uplifting portrait of one significant MMORPGs that is in the works. The...
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Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it

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The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....

EG7 Q2 2022: Daybreak’s Jason Epstein is now chairman of the board

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Remember a year ago when the Enad Global 7 board ousted CEO and co-founder Robin Flodin and replaced him - temporarily and in an...

Perfect Ten: My memories from the 2004 World of Warcraft launch

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Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs...

Global Chat: When you can’t ignore the MMO meta

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As we kick off another column on recent MMO blog essays, Galactic Antics uses a recent situation in Star Wars: The Old Republic as...

EverQuest II’s Oceansfull Festival returns with a new dungeon as the Summer Jubilee nears its end

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The summer season of EverQuest II is almost over as the Summer Jubilee that started with Tinkerfest in June is now ending with the...

EverQuest II’s Myths and Monoliths is live with the Fabled Veeshan’s Peak raid

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The Myths and Monoliths patch has finally arrived to EverQuest II's live servers as of yesterday afternoon, bringing with it the fabled versions of...

The Game Archaeologist: That time when EverQuest let you play as the monsters

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It's a near-given that in every MMORPG, players assume the roles of heroes who are sent out to vanquish the evil, dark, or at...

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