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The MOP Up: TERA’s Valkyrie goes to console while Vainglory comes to PC

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No matter what platform you're on, there's good stuff coming your way! TERA's Valkyrie update is finally making the jump to Xbox One and...

The Game Archaeologist: Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2

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At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...

Daybreak has suffered another round of layoffs, between 60 and 70 people

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It's Friday afternoon, which often portends bad news. Tonight, we're looking at more Daybreak layoffs. Massively OP understands that between 60 and 70 people may have been affected. Former SOE/Daybreak President John Smedley acknowledged the news on Twitter with a little bit of shade thrown in for good measure. The H1Z1 team working through NantWorks also tweeted its condolences.

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018

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It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.

The Daily Grind: How much does your reputation matter in a modern MMO?

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One of the memes I see repeated a lot when folks are waxing nostalgic about the old days of MMOs is this idea that...

Winter festivities descend on both classic EverQuest and EverQuest II

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Daybreak is rolling Christmas out to its classic MMORPGs this week - yes, we call EverQuest I a classic, but really, EverQuest II, which...
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H1Z1 retunes its AR and AK weaponry with the latest patch

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There's nothing festive about the latest Steam patch for H1Z1 (alias Z1 Battle Royale, alias Not Just Survive, alias Ricky "Player Pretty Well Known" Samberg) unless there's...

Hyperspace Beacon: Why PVPers are abandoning SWTOR – again

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I don't usually like to jump into the PvE-v-PvP debate because no one wins, but I have started to see an exodus of PvPers...
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Planetside 2 is celebrating Christmas with an array of high-powered festive weapons

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It's time once more for Planetside 2 players to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas by engaging in an endless three-way factional war while wearing...
Stone city.

EverQuest previews the city of Mearatas in the upcoming Burning Lands expansion

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Let's get real here, the duende in The Burning Lands expansion for EverQuest are not happy to have mortals around. They certainly don't want...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s latest update buffs bards and adds new quests

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Bards, tune those lutes and warm up those pipes: The latest update to Dungeons and Dragons Online is live today, and it brings with...

The Stream Team: EverQuest II’s Frostfell is the first holiday of the season

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Here comes Santa Glug, here come's Santa Glug! Give a cheer, the holidays are officially here! And the first holiday Massively OP's MJ gets...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 199: Delay after delay

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Justin and Bree discuss delays and do-overs for Project Nova, Path of Exile, Fractured, and Blades, plus WildStar's sunset, Red Dead Online, and Fallout 76's many messes, with mailbag questions on keeping up with new MMOs and combat-free titles.

The Daily Grind: What’s the meanest thing you can say about an MMO you adore?

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A couple of months ago, I did a Daily Grind asking folks to find something nice to say about MMOs they hate. It was...

Rumor: Daybreak might be building a new PlanetSide game

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So who else had "the PlanetSide franchise gets a class-based battle royale" in the predictions pool? Welp, looks like it's happening. We've gotten several...
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DC Universe Online kicks off its seasonal event with a celebration of greed

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It's the holiday season, and DC Universe Online wants to celebrate the true meaning of the season: getting stuff. That might sound wrong, but we...

Saga of Lucimia’s pre-alpha 11 is live December 8 with SWG-style wounds and battle fatigue

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If you've been following Saga of Lucimia, you probably know how the game's build tests work in pre-alpha: Stormhaven opens the servers periodically with...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever worry that an MMO you’re watching will be shuttered before it’s done?

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It's possible I've been doing this too long and have just seen a whole lot of casually delivered bad news on Twitter from gaming...

Toontown Rewritten’s latest player update buffs options and character movement

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Massively OP's own Justin "The Game Archaeologist" Olivetti deep-dived the history of Toontown Online in his column just about a year ago, but truth...

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