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EVE Online changes F2P mission access to combat bots and releases its first economic report of 2019

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There's been an unfortunate increase of RMT activity in New Eden recently, and in the delicate balancing act that is the in-game economy of...

The Daily Grind: What MMO could really use a true fresh start server?

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We talk a lot about progression servers and vanilla servers, branches of MMOs that use different rulesets, either new or old - we even...

Indie sci-fi sandbox Prosperous Universe is rejiggering its roadmap

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Prosperous Universe is probably one of the more underrated MMORPG sandboxes we've covered over the last year, chiefly because of its browser-based nature. The...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online has a gambling problem

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The gambling debate has kicked off again in EVE Online, this time in response to the annual Guardian's Gala event that's currently running throughout...

Black Desert: Xbox One beta preload, market value doubling, goldseller crackdown, and Dark Rifts event

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Usually Black Desert does its big drops on Wednesday, but we've already got a pile of BDO news growing that just can't wait. For starters,...

Interview: Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss on battle royale design, metrics, cron stones, and future content

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Black Desert has had a wild ride over the last year, as has its home studio, Pearl Abyss. Not only did PA pick up...
Where am I? No one gets to know.

Interview: Legends of Aria’s dungeon expansion, early access, ganking, housing, and cash shop philosophy

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Indie old-school sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria has become a household name among MMO players over the last few months, first rolling into early...

Spycursion is an indie cyberespionage sandbox MMO hitting Kickstarter this month

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So here's a new MMO those of you into espionage and spooks and hackers might like: It's a "continuously evolving" MMORPG sandbox called Spycursion,...

MMO designer Raph Koster runs down the key mechanics that drive retention in online games

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If last week's "games as a service" conversation piqued your interest, hop on over to Raph Koster's blog. The veteran MMORPG designer has a...
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Fallout 76 patches in nerfs for explosions, hard carry weight limits, and a ton of bug fixes

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If you can set aside the fuss over the incoming March Survival mode, Fallout 76 has a patch for you right now with stuff...

Trove compensates players for emergency outage over unconfirmed dupe bug

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If you were trying to play Trove on Friday, you were likely stymied by a bout of emergency maintenance that lasted several hours. It...

Post-apoc survival MMO Last Oasis plans spring early access, opens closed beta signups

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You just never know with survival games that call themselves MMOs whether they really mean it, but we've caught another one today: It's called...

Perfect Ten: The worst MMORPG expansions of all time

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A great MMO expansion brings so much to the table: fresh excitement for a game, new classes, innovative features, expanded vistas, additional races, and...

Grab a free key for Wild Terra from Juvty and MOP

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Looking for something to play on today's holiday? How about Wild Terra? The isometric sandbox has recently patch in a patch to tweak the...
Well, someone's having fun!

MapleStory 2 posts three-month feedback plan for gemstone, pet, and Meso improvements

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January always seems to be a time of regrouping for MMO communities and studios, and Nexon is joining the trend with MapleStory 2. Producer...

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?

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Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...

Choose My Adventure: The lonesome job of star charting in Elite Dangerous

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Today's edition of Choose My Adventure features results that were both a landslide and extremely close. On the one hand, most people suggested that...

Interview: Astellia’s western team on pay-to-win, themeparks, and dodging early access and battle royale

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Yesterday we covered the news that South Korean born MMORPG Astellia is heading westward in 2019, with its holy trinity classes, solid PvE and...

Snap up a Prosperous Universe early access key from Simulogics and MOP!

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We took our first look at indie space MMO Prosperous Universe just about a month ago now when German studio Simulogics dropped it into...

Exclusive: Legends of Aria previews its first major content of 2019

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We've had our eye on Legends of Aria since, well, long before it was called Legends of Aria, meaning we've been watching the game...

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