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The MOP Up: SoulWorker introduces Chii Aruel

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There's a new character on the horizon for SoulWorker, and her name is Chii Aruel. The studio hasn't said much about her just yet, but...

Overwatch’s Lunar New Year event welcomes old maps, new skins, and plenty of nerfs as box price falls

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Overwatch has officially joined the roster of games splashing out for the Lunar New Year. "From now until Feb. 18, you can ring in the...
They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

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This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...

Kickstarted sci-fi MMOFPS Pantropy will hit early access on January 31

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Hey, remember Pantropy? We first began covering this sci-fi MMOFPS back in 2017; since then, it's run two Kickstarters, the first of which was...
Comptrollers.

Daybreak is delaying PlanetSide Arena’s early access launch to March

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Daybreak has announced that it's delaying PlanetSide Arena's planned early access launch from January 29th to March 26th. "What we’ve discovered during playtesting is that...
Heritage.

SuperData December 2018: World of Warcraft returns to the rankings, Fortnite takes the year

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Back in December, hearts skipped beats over the realization that not a single Blizzard game made it into SuperData's top global revenue rankings for...
apolitical

The Division 2 encourages players to get greedy with new Dark Zone mechanics

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We're only a couple of months out from the release of Ubisoft's MMO third-person-shooter The Division 2, which will be bringing with it a...

The Daily Grind: Would you play Overwatch if it had a PvE or co-op mode?

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Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...

The Stream Team: Finishing Warframe’s Fortuna starting missions

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Massively OP's MJ wants her K-Drive! She has geared up better, so now she's (hopefully) ready to finish up Warframe's Fortuna starting missions so...

Warframe’s 2019 roadmap includes three new suits, cinematic quest, and Melee 3.0

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Digital Extremes has an action-packed 2019 in store for Warframe players, with an increased focus on "on-going shorter turn-around content" rather than slower, large...
Take care.

The MOP Up: WildStar suffers another indignity

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Miss WildStar? Well at least there's the soundtrack to listen to on various sites, right? Nope! Apparently NCsoft pulled the acclaimed score from sites...

Fortnite is apparently fertile ground for doing crimes, like money laundering

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Hey, you know what is fun? Money laundering! Wait, did we say "fun"? We meant "highly illegal and full of dire consequences." It's probably...

Bungie reiterates its commitment to Destiny 2 long-term as it previews short-term goals

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Since last week's revelation that Activision and Bungie were parting ways and sending Destiny home to live with its real dad - oh yeah,...

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?

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Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019

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Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
Oopsies.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 204: SpatialOS spasms

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Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.

The Bungie-Activision split could herald tough times ahead for Destiny 2

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Following last week's announcement that Bungie would be cutting its business ties with Activision and taking sole control of Destiny 2, fans and players...

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s Battle at the Binary Stars heats up

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Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back into...
Back again, etc.

Activision investors are now investigating whether the Bungie split involves securities fraud

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Two days ago, Activision and Bungie announced an early split of their long-running partnership, a split that transferred publishing rights for the franchise back...

Blizzard and Netease will be cranking out games together at least until 2023

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Chinese gaming giant Netease has popped up in the news over and over this past year. It poured money into SpatialOS and is building...

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