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Perfect Ten: 10 times MMOs appeared in TV and movies

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It's always surreal when real MMOs cross the divide between niche and mainstream to be referenced in television and films. Depending on how you...

MMO studio Daybreak is named 2023 Extra Life Partner of the Year, posts 2024 fundraising plans

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Daybreak's charity work has paid off: This week, Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network named Daybreak Games its Extra Life Partner of the Year...

TennoCon 2024: Music, motorbikes, and romance make Warframe 1999

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It's the 1990s! We've heard of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, and sugar and spice and everything nice. But what is Warframe...

TennoCon 2024: The terrific twos of TennoCon charities and Make-A-Wish

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Good things come in twos at TennoCon 2024. Even the year itself is beautifully divisible by twos. But the best of the twos isn't...
So what now?

Raph Koster’s Stars Reach will offer shorter play sessions specifically to boost stickiness

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Playable Worlds' lengthy blog post on Stars Reach's middle quad of pillars earlier this week wasn't long enough, or so Raph Koster suggests, as...

Sky: Children of Light anniversary festival draws a million fans for hybrid online/offline event

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It's been quite the celebration for Thatgamecompany and its Sky: Children of Light this month, as its anniversary celebration drew hundreds of thousands of...

Fight or Kite: Multiversus relaunched is just as fun as ever

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I had been eagerly anticipating the return of Multiversus ever since it was suddenly and unceremoniously shut down last year. For those who don’t...

Gamigo offloads Desert Operations and Wargame 1942 publishing to Fawkes with only two weeks’ notice on migrations

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Remember back at the end of 2020, when Gamigo began rather obviously to divest itself of most of its publishing agreements and video games,...

Global Chat: Tarisland’s controls, WoW Classic permadeath, and Dawntrail tips

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The Ancient Gaming Noob doesn't mince words in a recent essay: He found Tarisland pretty annoying right from the start. One key complaint? The...

Wizard101’s Cabal’s Revenge patch is live with a new raid for endgame guilds

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Happy patch day to Wizard101 friendos: Cabal's Revenge is officially live in KingsIsle's family-friendly MMORPG as of this morning. The update pits players against...

Piffsy is a new social MMO with llamas and dancing

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My friends, have you heard the word on the cyberstreets about this new social MMO that released a couple weeks ago? It's called Piffsy,...

Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs

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A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...

Perfect Ten: Lessons I’ve learned doing the MOP Podcast

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It's been well over a decade since I began to operate a podcast covering MMO news and opinions -- originally the Massively Speaking podcast...

Interview: Bohemia on multiplayer sandbox Ylands’ Switch release, Steam development, and games as a service

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A few weeks back, we caught wind of a big change for Bohemia Interactive's cutesy multiplayer pirate sandbox Ylands: It's launching on Switch, but...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a plan for what happens to your MMO accounts when you die?

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Ars Technica penned a piece a few weeks back about the legal quagmire awaiting people who hope to legally pass their Steam accounts on...

SGF 2024: A quick look at Capcom’s Monster Hunter Stories Collection

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I know many people looking at will see "Monster Hunter" in the title here and wonder why it doesn't say, "Wilds," but that comes...
No, I will not use metaverse pictures.

Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all

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So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...

LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online’s enormous new Neaths zone

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Do you remember when you were a kid and you got to poke around and explore a cool place? You'd eagerly run around it,...
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Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?

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We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...

The Daily Grind: What’s the worst whaling in a multiplayer game you’ve seen in the last year?

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This week, mainstream MOBA gamers flipped alllll the tables over Riot Games' gambit to sell a $450 League of Legends cosmetics bundle themed around...

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