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MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...

Citadel Forged With Fire launches The Godking’s Vengeance and its new quest system next week

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Fans of Citadel Forged With Fire are in for a treat next week, as Citadel: The Godking's Vengeance, a "massive free update," is set...
Ancient prophecies should perhaps be heeded.

First impressions: Warcraft III Reforged is someone’s monkey’s paw wish

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Let me start with something that is, I feel, pretty indisputable: Warcraft III is a pretty great video game. Even taking away its impact on...

Bless Unleashed kicks off a weekend-long server stress test

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Bandai Namco is looking for players to put the servers of Bless Unleashed through its paces. From now until Monday, February 3rd, at 1:00...
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Astellia Online is working on a fix for the Steam DLC configuration that’s making refunds impossible

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If you tried to pick up Astellia Online on Steam yesterday for its launch, you like noticed a few things. First, Steam was struggling...

Aion NA’s Return to Katalam update has launched with a massive 2000-person battleground

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Aion's North American branch is open for business with yesterday's launch of Return of Katalam, already live in Europe since last fall. As we've...

PlanetSide 2 provides an update on server hardware replacements for eastern US players

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This past Tuesday, nearly all of the servers for PlanetSide 2 got replaced. I say "nearly all" because the eastern US servers did not...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Pack of the Yeth Hound for PC courtesy of PWE and MOP!

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With the launch of Neverwinter's Infernal Descent update now live for PC players, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP 25 Pack of the Yeth Hound...
Get back.

WoW Factor: What if Shadowlands is also real bad?

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At this point, we're all kind of settling in for the long winter's nap and also the spring's nap and at least most of...

Interview: Barunson on the state of Astellia Online as it launches on Steam today

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Astellia Online was big news throughout 2019, as Barunson sought to bring the South Korean MMORPG westward but with careful attention paid to so-called...
So we can agree that we're not getting the anchovies.

Dual Universe’s game-changing alpha 3 is officially going live today

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It's been the subject of a whole lot of reporting here recently, and for pretty good reason: Alpha 3 of Dual Universe is looking...

Hardcore MMORPG Astaria hits Steam early access today [Update: Nope, delayed again]

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So here's a funny coincidence: Astaria is launching today on Steam! And Astellia is also launching today on Steam! This couldn't go wrong at...
Slide whistle noises dot emm pee three.

Blizzard limits Warcraft III: Reforged’s custom game scene as players complain over missing features

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We don't know how closely you've been following the launch of Warcraft III: Reforged, but it is not Happy Fun Times over in Blizzard's...

Rockstar thanks players of GTA Online and Red Dead Online for a booming holiday season with freebies

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Lots of folks were spending their time being naughty during the holiday season. Not in the "coal instead of presents" kind of way, but...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: Tabletop RPGs that would make fun MMOs

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Sometimes you have a deep and current reason for writing a column, something that is actively happening in the world of MMOs that requires...

The Division 2’s Episode 3 story trailer brings players back to New York and hands them a flamethrower

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The agents of The Division 2 are coming back to the ravaged New York City for a pretty important mission: rescue a captured scientist...
DEATH OR LIFE, PICK ONE

Phantasy Star Online 2 prepares players for closed beta with English voice acting and retained progress

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Fans with an Xbox One are going to be playtesting the localized version of Phantasy Star Online 2 on February 7th. Players on the PC...

Dauntless studio Phoenix Labs acquired by Singapore-based games company Garena

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With 20 million players and multiple platforms under its belt, Dauntless is a hot property in the gaming world. So it should come as...

MMORPG OrbusVR’s 2020 roadmap includes $9.99 DLC called the Mini Story Pack

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Yep, it's another roadmap news story! I don't mind, though; as I said in the most recent Massively Overthinking piece, I tend to like...
And all sold as one, oddly.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 257: Daybreakup

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Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's split up, Tencent's Funcom bid, Torchlight Frontiers becoming a non-MMO, Temtem's early access, Rend's sunset, and DDO's new expansion, plus adventures in Neverwinter, STO, SWG, CoH, and Trove, and a mailbag discussion on changing MMO goals.

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