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The MOP Up: Champions Online ups the ante on Monster Island

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With a name like "Monster Island," you wouldn't expect this Champions Online locale to be a walk in the park. And in fact, this...

The Game Archaeologist: Pirates of the Caribbean Online

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In 1967, Disneyland opened one of its most iconic attractions: a dark boat ride called Pirates of the Caribbean. A large fandom surrounding the...

Massively Overthinking: The dumbest conversations in your main MMO’s general chat

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Last week, in a thread about one of Diablo IV's many rivals, MOP commenter Greaterdivinity noted that chat in the game was exhausting because...
Look, ma, no colors!

Vague Patch Notes: Can anyone really cover games objectively when there’s suffering built-in to them?

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In July of 2021, we started a roundup tag in our tag cloud that most of us probably didn't expect to still be using...

Starborne Frontiers, downgraded from a persistent MMO, has soft-launched, but only on mobile

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We were all pretty excited back in 2021 when Starborne Sovereign Space developer Solid Clouds announced a persistent MMORPG spinoff called Starborne Frontiers, bringing...

Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?

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Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...

A Counter-Strike player shelled out six figures for an AK-47 skin because it had flowers and stickers on it

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The worth of digital items can very often be attributed to personal preference no matter how much crypto-hawking gremlins would like you to believe...

Escape from Tarkov names-and-shames thousands of cheaters in a Google doc

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Ah, welcome to Friday evening, folks, and a video game doing a little bit o' name-and-shame on some dastardly cheaters. The game is multiplayer shooter...

Lawful Neutral: What MMO gamers need to know about Section 230

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You might have seen something in the news last week about a thing called Section 230 and lots of panic over the "end of...

RF Online’s western version has been sunsetted thanks to an apparent contract issue

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News coming out of the sci-fi MMO RF Online has mostly been a trickle of headlines - the last report involved Korean developer CCR...

Genshin Impact fires voice actor over allegations of grooming, harassment, and abuse

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One of the English voice actors for Genshin Impact has lost his job as a result of some serious allegations leveraged against him. Elliot...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Niantic seems to care more about data collection than public safety

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I was hoping to be more positive as Pokemon GO’s Las Vegas Hoenn Tour is fast approaching, but ever consistent in disappointment, Niantic has...

UK regulators suggest Microsoft choked Google Stadia out of the cloud gaming market

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The findings shared by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) related to Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard already had a few things to say...

Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special

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MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission: "Wanna know...
What you gonna Wagadu?

The Wagadu Chronicles plans its third alpha test for March 13 with signups open now

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It's just about time for fans and testers alike to stop in with The Wagadu Chronicles to see what the game has been up...

Blue Protocol once again delays its upcoming Japanese network test to sometime in late March

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For those who were looking forward to Blue Protocol making its next step forward in Japan (and by extension moving closer to its late...

Microsoft buyout faces pushback from the UK as Google and Nvidia express concerns about the deal to the FTC

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The billion-dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard from Microsoft was likely never going to be a smooth transaction, but we suspect all parties involved weren't expecting...
Yeah, cool.

Stadia offers one last game to subscribers in the form of Worm Game

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Before Google Stadia closes its doors for good, the service is offering its fans one final game to play for free. Lest you get...

Destiny 2 gives you a doggo to pet, waves farewell to Stadia

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Every game developer these days know that players will just about lose their minds if a cute dog makes an appearance, which is why...

Torchlight Infinite offers patch notes and a video preview of its January 12 Season of Blacksail

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Torchlight Infinite may have already shared a preview of its January 12th Season of Blacksail, but now it's sharing another preview as well as...

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