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Massively Overthinking: Do you take vacation time to play MMOs?

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Back when Amazon was busy merging several dozen Lost Ark servers, I saw a comment thread where people were grousing about being locked out...

Star Anvil’s Secret World tabletop RPG has already exceeded its Kickstarter goal

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As we've been reporting, while Funcom is more or less content to leave both versions of Secret World in maintenance mode for the indefinite...
Gusts 'n' stuff

Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs

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Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...

Vitae Aeternum: The New Secret World

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Comparisons between New World and The Secret World have existed pretty much since the earliest teases of NW. It's what put the game on...
spooky, kinda

A YouTuber is archiving every single portion of The Secret World

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If you're the sort who has problems sticking it out through the combat model weirdness of The Secret World in spite of the outstanding...

One Shots: Postcards from the galactic rim

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While most of you toil and adventure away in the gravity well of a single planet, some daring MMOstronauts (is that a term? It...
WE'RE SO BLEEPING DAAAAAAAAARK

Mad World wraps up closed beta test, posts a new gameplay video

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If you were hoping to get your name drawn for this month's Mad World test, then so sorry, Charlie, but it's too late --...

New World bundles a bunch of fixes into this week’s update

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Don't play a drinking game with the word "fix" when it comes to this week's New World patch, because your liver will revolt. Update...

Vitae Aeternum: The best solo armor and magical weapons in New World

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I now return to bring you the second part of my analysis of weapon and armor choices for the solo player in New World....

Hell is Others is a top-down online multiplayer survival horror shooter launching October 20

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What if you lived in a city that was full of shadowy monsters and you had to roam into its streets every night to...

Vitae Aeternum: Previewing New World’s Brimstone Sands, leveling revamp, greatsword, and more

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New World is gearing up to unleash its largest patch since launch, and members of the press were recently invited to a virtual event...

Mad World opens up applications for its upcoming September 15 closed beta test

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While grimdark horror multiplayer ARPG Mad World will apparently launch as a permanent open beta, there's going to be at least one closed beta...

The Secret World’s tabletop RPG sourcebook heads to Kickstarter in October

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Last November we caught wind of the creation of a tabletop RPG game based on the long-neglected MMO The Secret World, which got the...

Requiem Online’s reboot goes live amid crashes, confusion

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The latest iteration of the post-apocalyptic horror MMO Requiem Online went live yesterday, although you might have been hard-pressed to notice due to its...

Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space

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A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...

Mad World’s Gamescom trailer delves into chaotic gameplay

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"Despite endless despair, there is hope," proclaims Mad World's latest trailer. But is that hope endless too? Because players are going to need a...

Monstrum 2 is an asymmetrical multiplayer spook-em-up leaving early access on September 6

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Fans of multiplayer asymmetrical titles with one player being a killer and the others being potential targets is something of a sub-genre all its...

Massively Overthinking: The real-world value of MMOs

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A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a wildly contentious - one might even say transparently provocative - thread declaring that "f...

New World shares a lore post as players raise $2300 for St. Jude’s in a player-run fishing tournament

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New World has a story to tell its players. A story about two enterprising pirates seeking the Heart of the Ocean - a jewel...

Trove’s Lunar Plunge brings back the battle against the minions of Q’bthulu until August 23

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Eldritch horror that are boxy and colorful are still eldritch horrors, so players of Trove are going to want to perhaps handle the matter...

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