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Watch One Piece Online get torn apart by an angry player

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Not every online game can be a winner, but even losers have their purpose as comedy fodder for the tongue-in-cheek player. YouTube comedian TheHiveLeader took...

ArenaNet strips, kills, deletes, and bans Guild Wars 2 cheater

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Today's lesson is that you shouldn't cheat in online games. Alas, a Guild Wars 2 character had to die to provide this valuable information...

Sword and Bored: Hide helmet

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Mo decides to check out the "hide helmet" option all the kids are talking about lately.
Wow, it's been a really long time since I had a critter picture.

WRUP: Throw hams at hyenas edition

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Folks, do you find yourself with too much ham in your house? If not, go buy some ham, then throw it at some vicious...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 11

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Justin, Bree, and guest John discuss Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns, Neverwinter, Meridian 59, Ultima Online, classic Guild Wars, WildStar, Elder Scrolls Online, and Elite: Dangerous, with mailbag questions on making your own MMO.

Sword and Bored: Behind the scenes

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Mo is offscreen for a week, but we get a chance to see just what the NPCs are up to behind the scenes.
So it goes.

WRUP: What ever happened with that button thing edition

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Does anyone remember this? This was a thing that happened. I wrote a news post about it. A thing was done with a button,...
My life is not fun.

Perfect Ten: The 10 things every MMO’s official site should have

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Are you ready to have you mind absolutely blown open? Because I have an astonishing truth to lay at your feet: While doing this...

Sword and Bored: Loot table

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Mo becomes discouraged when he finds his recent loot acquisition unsuitable for his class.
I was made into a fan!

WRUP: Yes, there was a new Star Wars trailer edition

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If you managed to avoid all contact with the internet this week, you might have missed that the next Star Wars film got a...
Masters without blasters.

Guild Wars 2 explains the philosophy of Masteries

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Players are not getting a level cap bump with Heart of Thorns; the apex of power in Guild Wars 2 will remain Level 80....
Bears.

How Daybreak thwarts H1Z1 cheaters

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Getting screwed over by other players cheating in H1Z1 isn't a fun feeling, even though the game is still in early testing and has...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 10

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Justin, Bree, and guests Ben and Tyler discuss WoW tokens, DCUO, Neverwinter's Minsc & Boo patch, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Wurm Online, and WildStar.

Sword and Bored: Encumbrance

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Mo discovers that cognitive dissonance is required to make sense of MMO encumbrance systems.
Mind if I axe you a question?

WRUP: Hourly content update edition

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Over the past few years, we've seen developers fall more and more in love with the idea of making faster and smaller updates to...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 9

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Justin and Bree discuss April Fools' Day, Neverwinter on Xbone, EverQuest II, SWG's NGE, Trove, Star Trek Online, WildStar, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on Guild Wars 2 leveling and the VR trend.

Sword and Bored: 10 rats

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Mo undertakes his first kill-ten-rats quest and boggles at the array of loot those tiny rats possess.
We were the kings and queens of promise, we were the victims of ourselves. Maybe the children of a lesser god between Heaven and Hell.

WRUP: Twilight over Eorzea edition

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It's hard to make a storyline that leads perfectly into an expansion. There's always more that could be done, the challenge of making something...

10 ways MMOs have changed the real world for the better

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Are MMOs pointless time-wasters, the bread and circuses of the modern era, or do they make positive, meaningful contributions to the real world? Well,...

Trove’s Fish ‘N’ Ships update is live

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Fish and chips is a dish of English origin consisting of battered fish and french fries, preferably served with tartar sauce for the fish...

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