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Final Fantasy XIV TV show gets a few new details, confirms chocobos

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There are a number of things intrinsic to the Final Fantasy experience. Magitek. Airships. Crystals of varying importance and use. Outfits that likely give...
Hello, I am still the villain.

US politicians chastise Activision-Blizzard for its handling of the Hong Kong fiasco

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If Blizzard thought its Hong Kong liberation fiasco couldn't possibly get worse than international headlines, a wide-ranging boycott, Riot Games' public pity, and a...

Daybreak’s Holly Longdale promises: ‘There is a future for EverQuest’

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Even as Daybreak fractures into several studios, its flagship MMORPG continues to fly high. EverQuest itself recently confirmed the Q4 arrival of its Torment...
Boy, there's just a level of smarm on display...

Blizzard finally decides to ban the college Hearthstone team that called for a Blizzard boycott too

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Did it bother you that Blizzard had punished Blitzchung over his Hong Kong liberation stunt but planned to permit American University players who similarly...

Buy-to-play ArcheAge Unchained is officially live today with the Shadows Revealed update

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Back in August, Gamigo stunned the MMORPG genre by announcing a do-over for 2014 Korean MMORPG ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained: It's a buy-to-play, sub-free...

Blizzard solves its ‘one company, two policies’ problem by hiding pro players and canceling an event

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While many gamers are now looking ahead to BlizzCon for its reveals after the Hearthstone Hong Kong esports fiasco, I'm far more curious about...

EVE Evolved: Chatting up EVE Online world record holder Ethan ‘Katia Sae’ Richards

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EVE Online player Ethan Richards is best known by the name of his in-game character Katia Sae, who earlier this year completed an incredible...

The Game Archaeologist: Funcom’s long-abandoned Midgard MMO

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There used to be a time that Funcom was deeply into the MMORPG business, bringing us titles such as Anarchy Online, Age of Conan,...
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Blizzard finally addresses Hong Kong esports fiasco, reducing bans and reinstating prize money

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All week, we've been covering the absolute chaos surrounding the punishment of pro Hearthstone esports player Ng “blitzchung” Wai Chung, whom Blizzard banned along...
YOU KNEW IT WOULD COME BACK

Mark Kern didn’t just quit WoW Classic: He accused his old Firefall studio of Chinese corruption

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Earlier this week, we reported that former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern had very publicly posted that he was quitting WoW over...

Blizzard won’t punish the US college Hearthstone players who protested in support of Blitzchung – so they quit

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On Wednesday, we reported that a Hearthstone collegiate team from American University in Washington, D.C., had staged a brief protest in support of Hong...

Interview: Star Citizen’s Sean Tracy on the gameplay features of alpha 3.7, live today

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Today marks another big installment for the alpha of Star Citizen. The 3.7 update should now be live for everyone as you read this,...

Stardew Valley’s lone developer talks about self-publishing, patch 1.4, and multiplayer for Xbox One and mobile

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Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone seems to be the Trent Reznor of gaming development in that he works better either by himself or with a very...

Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet chased the 2016 Gaile Gray account hacker all the way to Germany – and lost

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Back in 2016, MassivelyOP covered an odd story about the Guild Wars franchise and a hack that seemingly involved the account of then-ArenaNet employee...

Former Bungie CEO publicly unveils his new multi-studio games company

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Harold Ryan, the man who led Bungie for 15 years, has re-entered the games industry with a new company called ProbablyMonsters, which works a...

Black Desert for PC opens up a new area full of powerful monsters

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Bringing up a character's level is all well and good, but that only really matters if you can pit that character against new challenges,...
Theft.

Washington man charged with theft of $40,000 of games and equipment from Valve headquarters

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In 2018, there was a break-in at Valve's offices in Bellevue, WA. Some 15 Xbox One and 23 PlayStation 4 games, between 15-20 Asus...
Hello, I am still the villain.

Players, pros, and politicians join in protest over Blizzard’s censorship of Hong Kong Hearthstone pro

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The furor over Blizzard's ban of a Hong Kong Hearthstone pro player and apparent firing of two Taiwanese commentators has only increased since its...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 241: The MMO industry reshuffles its deck

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Justin and Bree are joined by Gamigo's Merv Lee Kwai aka Khrolan for a sponsored interview on ArcheAge Unchained, plus news on Guild Wars 2, Funcom's Tencent investment, Red Dead Online on PC, Raph Koster's new MMORPG, and adventures in WoW and City of Heroes.

Blizzard bans Hearthstone esports player and fires casters over pro-Hong Kong protest

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I suppose it was just a matter of time before the current Chinese political mess spilled over into gaming, but it's done so now:...

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