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World of Warcraft gears up for WoW Tokens and arena championships

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Can you part with real money more easily than you can part with hours of time to farm up gold in World of Warcraft?...

RuneScape adds its 200th quest

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A new quest in RuneScape is something to be celebrated and enjoyed, as that MMO's quests often go far above and beyond menial tasks....

Final Fantasy XI welcomes spring with this week’s update

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It's terribly hard to believe that it's already spring, particularly if you're watching a glacier slowly envelop your neighborhood in the northern hemisphere. Fortunately,...

Dave Georgeson talks all things MMOs

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Have you missed the enthusiastic Dave Georgeson since he got the boot from Daybreak last month? Well, he certainly hasn't gone into seclusion; Georgeson...
Finding even a halfway decent screenshot of this game is a mathematical impossibility, I swear.

Wisdom of Nym: Exit Final Fantasy XI

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It's all over for Final Fantasy XI. Or it will be, anyhow. It was hard to imagine that the big Final Fantasy XI conference was...

Crowfall hits stretch goals for mounts, caravans, and free pack pig

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With only a few days to go, Crowfall is hitting stretch goals left and right in its quest to be one of the best-funded...
If you're not following @TruceSMV, you're missing context for this! Also you're making me sad because I have things there and I want you to love me.

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite game to decompress with?

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Moving is absolutely awful, as we all know, and I would be very happy to never move ever again. Once my computer was all...

EVE Evolved: CCP’s Andie Nordgren on new structures and sovereignty

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I've been pretty critical of EVE Online's upcoming sovereignty and nullsec revamp, calling the constellation-wide battle fake and its use of reinforcement timers unnecessary....
Shroud of the Avatar

Shroud of the Avatar talks dev events, a community app, and more

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest update is typically meaty. It features the usual footnotes related to in-game tweaks and changes as well as blurbs...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: March 21, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, SOE fans banded together and attempted to Kickstart this year's Fan Faire. You might recall that Columbus Nova...

Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns stress test begins March 24

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Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns expansion stress testing is set to begin on March 24th, according to emails going out to lucky invitees...

LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking my favorite foes

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It goes without saying that after eight years of continual development and expansion, Lord of the Rings Online's Middle-earth holds quite the assortment of...

The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2 and a giveaway

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MJ is her name, and exploration is her game. That certainly bodes well for Guild Wars 2; there's plenty of undiscovered land for Massively...
mule punchers

Pathfinder Online shows off group play video

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What does it look like when you get a whole lot of players in Pathfinder Online taking on monsters, fighting one another, and milling...

Own, expand, and develop your own piece of Crowfall’s universe

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While most of Crowfall's playable area will be in temporary PvP campaign worlds, there will be a bastion of permanence in individual player housing...
And Justin weeps, silently, in the corner. No one feels bad about it.

EverQuest Next opens up the Qeynos Foundation Museum contest

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EverQuest Next is getting ready to lay the groundwork for the city of Qeynos, and the design team is turning to Landmark to make...
You may be my old favorite, but you don't get a free pass.

WoW Factor: The design slide from start to present

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After more than a decade of operation, a curious thing has happened to World of Warcraft: It's circled back around on an awful lot...

Pre-purchase Hearthstone’s Blackrock Mountain for free card back

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Even though it's not out yet, you can go ahead and pay for Hearthstone's Blackrock Mountain adventure pack to have it waiting for you...

EVE Fanfest 2015: CCP opens VR Labs, unveils four new side projects

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The story of how virtual reality dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie was born is a great indicator of shifts within the games industry. While the big...

Massively Overthinking: Making MMOs ‘sticky’ without vertical progression

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Today's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter backer Jersey C, who asks, If you were asked to design an MMORPG without vertical progression...

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