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Sword and Bored: Area of effect

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Mo discovers the value of MMO friends in the pursuit of sweet, sweet revenge.
Witness.

WRUP: Exhausting movies that might just be Australian documentaries edition

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I'm relatively certain that I left the theater showing Mad Max: Fury Road on the same day that I went in, but I'm not...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 17

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Justin and Bree discuss Infinite Crisis' sunset, Heroes of the Storm's launch, TERA's growth, EverQuest Next, Marvel Heroes, Trove, PlanetSide 2, Aion, WildStar, and The Secret World, plus mailbag questions on game metrics and character origin stories.

Sword and Bored: Ranged Class

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Mo learns that ranged classes make the best kill-stealers.
Boy, the angry emails I'm writing for myself.

WRUP: Fallout Seven or whatever edition

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Folks, the big video game news this week was confirmation that Fallout Something is going to be released! Through powerful kung fu focusing mostly...

Heroes of the Storm gets an honest trailer

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Surely you've heard of the honest trailer phenomenon, wherein a guy with an action movie trailer voice narrates footage of popular films, TV shows,...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 16

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Justin and Bree discuss WildStar's F2P, The Secret World's motorcycles, Echo of Souls' soft launch, Greed Monger's doom, Marvel Heroes' updates, plus mailbag questions on underused races, multiboxing, and tiny MMOs.

Sword and Bored: Trade

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Mo learns that objects in this brave new world are all too often... bind-on-pickup.
If I had known then what I know now, I... would have felt no different, really, but it might have mitigated stuff.

WRUP: Goodbye, my sweet would-be treasure edition

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I don't think I can properly express how much I love the Ikthians in WildStar. The Ikthian Crawler is seriously something I would... well,...

Perfect Ten: Proof that the RuneScape Twitter account is stark raving mad

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For a writer on a multi-MMORPG news site, following pretty much every online game's Twitter feed comes with the territory. It's always interesting to me to see...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 15

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Justin and Bree talk about Blade & Soul's western approach, WoW's war on flying, The Repopulation's launch date, EverQuest's progression server, Age of Conan's anniversary, and Guild Wars 2's Lion's Arch rebuild, plus mailbag questions on repellent MMO IPs.

Sword and Bored: Ninja Loot

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Mo downs his first miniboss, only to see one of his "friends" abscond with the loot.
Oh, you're no fun any more.

WRUP: My only raiding story from Star Wars: The Old Republic edition

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A friend asked me to come with her guild to run some endgame raid or another. I don't remember what it was. Whatever raid...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 14

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Justin and Bree discuss WildStar's chaos, NCsoft's financials, Trove, Marvel Heroes, The Secret World, ARK: Survival Evolved, Neverwinter's Xbox numbers, and The Division's delay, plus mailbag questions on Reddit gaming culture and escapism vs. lockboxes.

Sword and Bored: Boss fight

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Mo takes on an unimpressed crab miniboss with his newfound companions in his very first PUG.
This was a real game that existed.

WRUP: This game existed, no one cared edition

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The above screenshot is from Fantasy Earth Zero, a title that was developed by Square-Enix, launched to a resounding thud, got resurrected by another...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 13

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW's sub decline, EQ Next, GW2's Dragonhunter, EQ progression servers, SWTOR harassment, and adventures in Marvel Heroes, Secret World, and Guild Wars, plus mailbag questions on SWG's PvP and pay-to-win.

Sword and Bored: Looking for group

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While out hunting his foe, the skeptical crab, Mo meets new friends!
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was here.

WRUP: Chroma Squad is a thing of joy edition

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If you had told me when I was 17 that I wanted to play a pixelated turn-based strategy game in which I got to...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 12

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Justin, Bree, and Eliot from Cards Against Humanity discuss SWTOR's Ziost update, Daybreak's emu deal, the Guild Wars saga, ArcheAge's patch, and Darkfall's retcon, plus mail on MMO mistakes and replacing CoH. Bonus: Justin's Kickstarter tribute song!

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