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Massively OP Podcast Episode 339: Kitchen sinks and the Tao of MMOs

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Funcom, Mortal Online 2, WoW Classic, EverQuest II, Star Trek Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on the direction of Guild Wars 2 and WoW and what's going on with LOTRO's dead servers.

New World composers Ramin Djawadi and Brandon Campbell discuss scoring the MMORPG

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Somebody go find our resident Battle Bard and Jukebox Hero, Justin: Amazon's just dropped a bunch of music-related goodies ahead of next week's New...

Albion Online’s Call to Arms 10 arrives ahead of this weekend’s season start

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PvP players, you've been called to arms, quite literally, with Albion Online's latest update. Call to Arms Patch 10 has arrived as of today,...

EverQuest II brings back its (renamed) summer event and kicks off the prelude to Visions of Vetrovia

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Panda, Panda, Panda! No, that's not a remake of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! but with adorable fluffy bears; it's the new name for...
I'm purely decorative!

Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons testers can play with the Vindicator, Bladesworn, Catalyst, and DX11 update now

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Hear that hum? It's the distant rumbling of the hype train to Cantha, and it's getting a little bit closer with this week's Guild...

Jagex attributes lag spikes during Old School RuneScape’s Deadman finals to ‘direct network attacks’

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Over the past three weeks, Old School RuneScape has been running its Deadman Reborn PvP competition, which hit its zenith this past Friday with...

Hearthstone promises a mix of RPG and roguelike when Mercenaries arrives October 12

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There's a new game mode coming to Hearthstone on Tuesday, October 12th, which seeks to blend the CCG's characters with RPG and roguelike elements....
No belts

Final Fantasy XIV details the process of deprecating belts ahead of its next expansion

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Final Fantasy XIV is going to remove your belt. Not like that; get your mind out of the gutter. The game is removing belts...
FRUIT. FRUIT. FRUIT.

The Daily Grind: Is Blizzard right to ‘desexualize’ art in World of Warcraft?

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Last week, there was a big social media hubbub over World of Warcraft, as Blizzard quietly changed out a pair of obscure paintings in...

MapleStory M adds the Dual Blade class and the Victoria Road region in recent patch

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If your MMO doesn't have a character that can expertly wave two bladed weapons about with precision, guile, and agility, then what are you...
Skull go BLORF

World of Warcraft makes the Ignore function account-wide in patch 9.1.5

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So let's say you ignore someone on World of Warcraft with the poetic name of Clownfart. This is probably a sensible reaction just to the...
Oh, right.

Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to Final Fantasy XIV’s job changes from the live letter

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One of the things that excites me every time about Final Fantasy XIV is the way that the game can tell you up-front exactly...

Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning finally adds capital cities that Mythic axed

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So a little Warhammer Online history lesson for you today: Originally when Mythic Entertainment was developing the game, it had plans to include up...
You get a stronghold! And you get a stronghold! Everybody here gets a stronghold!

The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs with simply too much to do?

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MMO blogger Bhagpuss recently penned a solid article about his time in Guild Wars 2, arguing in part that the game's problem isn't that...

Global Chat: New World beta pleases some, fails to grab others

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The buzz around MMO Town these days is on New World, and specifically, the open beta that wrapped up last week. So far, the...

One Shots: Boom, said the world

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You'd think that a world that's already been nuked into a radioactive wasteland wouldn't need any additional bombs lobbed at its surface, but several...
This was neat, but eh.

Guild Wars 2 stream previews End of Dragons’ Vindicator, Bladesworn, and Catalyst

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Guild Wars 2 players are getting no shortage of new expansion info lately, between last week's fishing and skiff stream and last month's preview...

Diablo II recaps the backstory leading to the start of the game

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While it is not like Diablo II's lore is exactly fresh, new stuff in the gaming world, it's entirely possible that you and everyone...

LOTRO Legendarium: Why do we know so little about Fate of Gundabad?

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Over the past few months, my general sense of rising hope for Lord of the Rings Online has been tempered by a nagging disquiet...
Building!

Final Fantasy XIV reveals job actions and battle changes in its latest live letter

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The are changes coming to Final Fantasy XIV with the next expansion, and that includes a whole lot of changes to job actions for...

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