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Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 5

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And here we arrive at last in our multi-week countdown to the final seven. It has been a fun and delightful journey through World...

MMO Mechanics: The Fair Play Alliance and mechanising fairness

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News of over 30 gaming companies taking a united stand against unfairness and toxicity in online game communities sprung out of GDC 2018 a...

The Game Archaeologist: Shattered Galaxy

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War. War never ends. Especially if it was designed and encouraged to wage forever. One of the most popular computer gaming genres of the late...

A sneak peek of South Africa in Secret World Legends’ Season 2

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The things I do for you! You know that story is everything to me, and in order to bring you more information, I allowed...
Local Panda Recalls When She Was Special.

WoW Factor: Allied races and a dearth of class choices

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Last week, we got confirmation that Kul Tiran Humans and Mag'har Orcs are coming to the Allied Race roster for World of Warcraft: Battle...

GDC 2018: In the crow’s nest with Ship of Heroes’ CEO Casey McGeever

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Let me be upfront: I've never gotten into a superhero MMO. I love comics; outside of work, it's probably the only fiction I willingly...

Shroud of the Avatar: Partying with Portalarium, countering pay-to-win, and the state of the game

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The day is finally arriving: Shroud of the Avatar is formally launching next week. It's been a long journey. The path to this new old-school...
It should look like the logo is going to be shot.

Choose My Adventure: Anniversary groupings in Warframe

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Last week's poll on Warframe was a nail-biter, but it ultimately came down in favor of me not buying a new frame for my...

Hyperspace Beacon: So SWTOR’s Update 5.8 happened

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Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched the delayed Update 5.8: Command Authority to the servers. BioWare now offers its first complete operation since...

Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...
Ideas face challenges when born.

Wisdom of Nym: A week after Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka

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It's been a little under a week since the Eureka launch in Final Fantasy XIV, and opinions about the content are pretty universally strong....

Preview: Trove’s Heroes expansion is super – and launching on March 27

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If you were ever of the opinion that one thing the voxel world Trove needed was a superhero, then you are getting your wish!...

EVE Evolved: What pushes EVE Online players to breaking point?

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How many times have you read the comments on an EVE Online article and found someone talking about an experience they had that turned...

EverQuesting: An EverQuest 19th anniversary retrospective and party planner

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There are MMOs that have been around a while, and then there is EverQuest. It's so old school it is old enough to be...
As a bird.

Choose My Adventure: Single-track shooting in Warframe

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After my second week in, I have to admit that I'm kind of bothered by Warframe. Or, more accurately, the fact that I like...
Don't call it a comeback.

WoW Factor: The Kul Tiran Druid ‘problem’ in World of Warcraft

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One of the important things to note about World of Warcraft lore is that it's never been static. It will retcon itself six ways...

Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR fans should be excited about Fogbank

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This week, I'm going to depart a little from the usual insights into the world around Star Wars: The Old Republic and talk about...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

Interview: ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches April 5th with dragon taming and fresh start servers

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If I were to tell you that ArcheAge's next big update is launching next month, you'd tell me that it's too soon. And we'd...
Up.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka

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I think Naoki Yoshida has severely overestimated how much I wanted to chase after a Scorpion Harness again. One of the things that I mentioned...

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