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Perfect Ten: Classic alt challenges for MMOs

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When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo...

The Daily Grind: How grown-up do you like your MMO graphics?

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I may be settling comfortably into middle age, but I'll freely admit that I'm very partial to bright colors and highly stylized designs for...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 279: New World in the new year

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Justin and Bree discuss New World, WoW Shadowlands, Dual Universe, Legends of Aria, Elder Scrolls Online, and Torchlight III, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on lazy development and Mists of Pandaria.

Choose My Adventure: Exploring the Caves of Chaos in Dungeons and Dragons Online

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I’ve heard you loud and clear, Dungeons and Dragons Online friends. There were a number of comments on last week’s column espousing the virtues...
oh no skellingtons

World of Warcraft: Shadows Rising is a solid book stuck in an uncomfortable midspace

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My long-standing policy for the prequel novels for World of Warcraft expansions has been to not read them. We've gotten these things for a...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs charge subs for beta?

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Dual Universe is not the first MMORPG to charge a sub for a beta - let me just state that upfront. So today's Daily...

The Survivalist: Astroneer adds automation (and it’s awesome)

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Astroneer is already an awesome game. Even as a survival game, it is my go-to for chill fun. It scratches the mega harvesting or...
Classy.

Wisdom of Nym: What to do in Final Fantasy XIV during the 5.3 patch delay

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Here we are in July, and we're not going to get our next patch for about a month. Normally, this isn't such a big...

Fight or Kite: Examining Crowfall’s newbie systems, from God’s Reach to Awakening

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Despite the current pandemic we are all living through, one thing you absolutely have to give the team at ArtCraft credit for is continually...

The Daily Grind: What do you think about the New World delay?

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Last week's Friday afternoon news was the revelation that Amazon's MMORPG New World has been delayed for at least the third time that we...

Global Chat: Being scared of devs ‘improving’ MMOs

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Do you ever live in fear that the development team behind your favorite MMORPG might screw things up in the name of progress and...

The Game Archaeologist: World War II Online

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The 1990s saw the rise of flight simulators that thrived on detailed, complicated controls and handling. Such games threw out accessibility and casual-friendliness for...
Sir Probably Not Appearing In These Dungeons

The Daily Grind: Would you give an MMO as a gift to someone?

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Video games as gifts are a tradition that stretches back into the era of the NES, when that was basically how you got new...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten married online in a game?

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As we continue with our next round of "Never Have I Ever," I'll throw this one out to you: Never have I ever gotten...
KITTY! AGAIN!

Vague Patch Notes: Don’t alter MMO systems for people who never liked them to begin with

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Here's a concept that just would not leave my mind thanks to World of Warcraft, but it's not a bad thing. But in order...

The Daily Grind: Do you pine for a lost era of a specific MMO?

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A few weeks back, I saw a Reddit thread from a fellow MMO gamer who missed a specific version of Guild Wars 2. "Players...

Massively Overthinking: How much should MMOs cost in 2020?

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MOP reader Castagere recently wrote to us with a nod to the growing sentiment across the gaming industry that might indicate a shift in...

Working As Intended: Decorating MMORPG houses in SWG Legends and beyond

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I've been mulling over how to do a piece about MMO housing for a while now, spurred on by colleagues and readers who've said...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: Dissecting the drips and drabs from the Shadowlands reveal stream

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All right. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands kicks off its beta next week. I would kind of like to be involved in that! I am...

EA shareholders criticize ‘exorbitant’ executive pay, slam ‘payoffs for layoffs’

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Over the course of June, we covered attempts by Activision-Blizzard shareholders to agitate against the company's "Say-on-Pay" policy, which critics say effectively overpays CEO...

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