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The Daily Grind: What are you going to roll in WoW Classic?

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I swear that we are all of us caught in a time loop right now. It's not 2019, it's really just 2004, when City...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 225: The slash and burn of Amazon Game Studios

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Justin and Bree discuss E3, Black Desert, Warframe, Last Oasis, Amazon, New World, Ship of Heroes, SWG Legends, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, with mailbag questions on monetizing character costuming and beating bad launch dead horses.

Guild Wars 2 resurrects Dragon Bash events from June 25 to July 16

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Surprise! Dragon Bash is returning to Guild Wars 2 next week. Even our columnists were stunned at this announcement, as the event hasn't been...
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Guild Wars 2 is removing language restrictions on linking worlds with the upcoming WvW restructure

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30We don't mean to blow anyone's minds, but there are a few different languages spoken in the EU. At least three. This poses a...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best systems for helping newbies?

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A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...

The MOP Up: Project Torque revs back up for another race

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Car racing MMOs have endured bumpy runs in the genre, including the late Project Torque (also called Level R and HEAT Online). Torque ran...

One Shots: Deep diving

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Can't say that I approve of the flagrant disregard for deep diving safety protocols that are on display in our spotlight picture from Final...

Battle Bards Episode 146: More vocals

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In another theme sequel, the Battle Bards return to the notion of vocal tracks in MMORPGs. Does singing hold a special place in online...

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO enemy faction and why?

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One of the more bits of brilliant design in City of Heroes is that there is such a diverse and distinct array of enemy...

Lineage 2: Revolution releases new battle royale mode with its latest update

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Be the last person standing. Fight against the most dangerous prey. Try to stifle your yawning. Yep, it's battle royale, and it has arrived...

Ship of Heroes says it plans ‘to top the City of Heroes character creator’

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This week, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever hit the Ship of Heroes forums to discuss some of the content already in the game - and...

Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO superfans, zealots, and insidious tribalism

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We recently received two pieces of mail from longtime MOP readers and commenters that worked together perfectly to form a unified topic. Alex emailed...
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Guild Wars 2 reverses decision on raid craft mats, kicks off new mystery event

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ArenaNet has updated Guild Wars 2 players on two points of contention relating most recent patch. For starters, the new update apparently reversed a...

Blade & Soul explores the Blade Master and Kung Fu Master’s upcoming third specs

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When Blade & Soul's Empyrean Shadows update arrives on June 19th, Blade Masters and Kung Fu Masters will become even more, er, masterful with...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a technique for coming up with MMO character names?

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My husband doesn't really take MMO names too seriously. The pigtailed City of Heroes toon floating in the image up above? Yeah, her name...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 224: Black Desert, Bless Online, and boats

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Carlo, Bree, and Justin discuss Black Desert, Bless, Phantasy Star Online 2, E3, LOTRO, SWTOR, GW2, POE, City of Heroes, and boats.

Guild Wars 2’s Key of Ahdashim raid is now live in the game’s latest update

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Guild Wars 2 has just pushed out the next big thing for raiders: The Key of Ahdashim raid is now live. "The raid takes place...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Speculation on Guild Wars 2’s gods and dragons

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Let's just note upfront that this edition of Flameseeker Chronicles will have lots of Guild Wars 2 spoilers, including but not limited to the recent Living World S3E6 War Eternal. Also, wild speculation that may well be completely wrong. You have been warned!
And here, we see yet another thing thrown away for no damn reason.

Storyboard: Exploring religion in MMOs

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One of the things I wanted to do in bringing back Storyboard was to expand a little bit beyond just roleplaying to the stuff...

The MOP Up: KurtzPel’s early access rolls out globally

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While it was already accessible to North American players, the anime-styled KurtzPel is now open to a much wider audience thanks to this past...

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