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Lord of the Rings Online plans a ‘perfect picnic’ with this week’s summer festival

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Lord of the Rings Online's summer festival is coming back on June 28th, and this year the event has a couple of exciting surprises...

Interview: Worlds Adrift’s Bossa Studios on giving, griefing, and gittin’ gud

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After the launch of Worlds Adrift but prior to E3, we sent off an interview to Bossa Studios and recently received our answers, complete...

The Daily Grind: What are your ‘must have’ features for an MMO space sim?

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With Star Citizen on the way (eventually) and smaller efforts like Prosperous Universe, Starfighter Inc, and Dual Universe in the works and titles like...

Fortnite: Pollsters and academics examine purchases, pay-to-win, and motivation vs. addiction

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Remember the old adage that less than 10% of a free-to-play playerbase pay for the other 90%? A poll conducted by LendEDU and Pollfish...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 176: Guild Wars 2, The Crew 2, and Elder Scrolls too

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Justin and Bree discuss Fractured's Kickstarter, Trion Worlds' purchase of Gazillion, Guild Wars 2's new episode, The Crew 2's launch, drama in Elder Scrolls Online and Black Desert, The Sims, DDO, Trove, what we bought in the Steam sale, and pipedreams for Marvel Heroes.

Trove has just launched its exploration-centric Geode expansion and new battle royale minigame

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The first leg of Trove's Geode expansion has launched today, with brand-new mechanics for the blocky-cute sandbox. "Players will find themselves on a brand new...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Our preview of Guild Wars 2’s Long Live the Lich, now live

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We've waited out the short delay, and today's the day when we get our hands on the third episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living...

The Daily Grind: Do you want to see a battle royale mode in any live MMORPGs?

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Literally nothing is sacred, and no video game franchise seems capable of escaping the pull of the battle royale, as my trip to a...
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Wisdom of Nym: The Final Fantasy XIV beast tribes, bottom ranks

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I have mentioned before that I'm a big fan of the beast tribes of Final Fantasy XIV. Final Fantasy XI, too; there's a charmingly...
Mounting problems, if you will? Probably not.

The Daily Grind: Are you an impulse buyer in MMO cash shops?

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During last week's podcast, Justin and I were discussing MMOs that seem to make it hard for us to give them money, which led...

EVE Evolved: Will EVE Online’s Abyssal Deadspace ever be expanded?

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EVE Online's recent Into the Abyss expansion has managed to grip me in a way that few expansions have, providing a challenging new solo...

One Shots: I have had just about enough of you!

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There are certain locales and cutscenes in MMORPGs that I've noticed get screenshotted more than most, and none seem to be quite as popular...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO social hangout?

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There was always something happening in Pocket D in City of Heroes. You can expect to see people talking it up in Deep Space...

Chaos Theory: A guide to Secret World Legend’s first MEGAversary

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Next week marks one year down for Secret World Legends, but the party has already started! From June 20th through July 17th, 2018, players...

The Daily Grind: What are your summer MMO goals?

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Now that most schools are out and the heat has begun in earnest in the northern hemisphere, it's the perfect time to retreat into...

Massively Overthinking: Massively OP’s E3 2018 awards

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We've finished rolling out all of our E3 2018 content this year, save a few last stragglers coming this weekend, so now we've chosen...
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The Daily Grind: Do you take the lead in MMO groups?

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There are many different sorts of leaders in group content. There are the people who are "leaders" in the sense that they set the...

Hyperspace Beacon: Future plot points for SWTOR and other unanswered lore questions

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Last night, BioWare Creative Director Charles Boyd and Community Manager Eric Musco were guests on the Passionately Casual Podcast to discuss the lore of Star Wars: The...

The Daily Grind: How much dough have you dropped on Steam in its lifetime?

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VentureBeat noticed this week that it's possible to figure out just how much money you've blown on video games, at least through Steam, by...

The Daily Grind: Do you carry a torch for any MMOs that were killed in development?

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Maybe I'm alone on this, but the more I examine MMO history, the more it troubles me how many potentially great games never even...

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