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Niantic’s Monster Hunter Now MMOARG opens prereg ahead of September 14 launch

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Don't look now, but Niantic is spinning up a few more plates and hoping they don't come crashing to the ground: As previously announced,...

Marvel Snap introduces gacha-like ‘premium mystery variants’ and retools its card cache reward system

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The ways that players of the digital CCG Marvel Snap get new cards is changing with the game's latest patch, and arguably not for...

Niantic is sunsetting Marvel World of Heroes after all – tomorrow, in fact

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At the end of June, Pokemon Go company Niantic announced a restructure of its entire business, a closure of its LA studio, the layoff...

Niantic lays off 230 workers, affecting Pokemon Go, in cost-slashing reorganization

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The beleaguered Pokemon Go company Niantic has been under fire all year from unhappy players, and now, the company itself is undergoing a restructure...

Into the Super-Verse: What made Marvel Heroes so special?

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This month we mark a particularly sad anniversary in the MMO space: The 10th anniversary of the launch of Marvel Heroes. By all rights,...

Why I Play: Six things that thrill me about Marvel Snap

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At this point, I've now played more Marvel Snap than I have of my last digital card game obsession, Hearthstone. Since getting into it...

Massively on the Go: The pros and cons of physical minigames in themepark MMOARGs

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Summer is a time for themeparks and gaming, and these days, the two can be more readily mixed - with a variety of results....
Party down.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 425: A disturbance in the Force of SWTOR

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Justin and Bree discuss the SWTOR move to Broadsword, news from the Summer Game Fest, the Reddit blackout's impact on the MMO community, anniversaries for Neverwinter and Marvel Heroes, and patches for EVE Online and No Man's Sky, plus adventures in LOTRO and Diablo IV.

Marvel’s Avengers coasts toward its end with a final patch that unlocks everything

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Missing Marvel Heroes on its 10th anniversary? Your inclination may be to look for an acceptable substitute -- but keep looking beyond Marvel's Avengers...

David Brevik on Marvel Heroes’ 10th anniversary: ‘It is gone into the nothingness forever’

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The importance of June 4th may have passed you by, but the creator of Diablo II and Marvel Heroes commemorated the 10th anniversary of...

Pokemon Go’s Niantic pushes Marvel World of Heroes into beta, announces Monster Hunter Now

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Niantic is continuing is thus far unsuccessful attempts to make MMOARGs besides one attached to the Pokemon IP happen following the flop of its...

Massively Overthinking: Tabletop and boardgames for MMORPG players

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Last week, following the crowdfunding of an Elder Scrolls boardgame, the MOP staff got derailed by a discussion on boardgame prices (it's expensive, y'all)....
Same old story.

Activision-Blizzard and NetEase’s breakup was caused by long-brewing disputes and alleged threats

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One of the biggest MMO and gaming stories capping off the end of 2022 and spilling over into the start of 2023 was the...
Actually developing a title to not be a boring slog is a skill some developers have yet to master.

Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO

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Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain

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In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...

Perfect Ten: 10 dead MMOs that should be revived for a second chance

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I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...
Stormy.

Marvel Snap gets even more multiplayer with today’s battle mode

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It's been one of the most requested features of Ben Brode's Marvel Snap: A one-on-one battle mode to duke it out between friends. And...
Alas and alack.

Wisdom of Nym: In praise of Final Fantasy XIV’s Ultimate content

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As basically everyone who has read this column for a long period of time knows, I have not done the latest bit of Ultimate...

The Stream Team: Starting a few first-time matches in Marvel Snap

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MOP's Chris is not usually one for card games, but there was a lot of early noise made about Marvel Snap, and it appears...
Game for sale!

World of Warcraft posts a hype trailer for the Trading Post opening on February 1st

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Are you sufficiently hype for getting new cosmetic rewards in World of Warcraft via the upcoming Trading Post? It might seem a little odd...

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