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Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation

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Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...

Derek Smart’s Alganon is planning a 2025 relaunch following alpha this year

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Derek Smart has been promising that Alganon is returning for years now, and it's finally happening, or at least it has a timeline for...

The MOP Up: Alganon shows its first signs of life in ages

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Could we be hearing a heartbeat in the long-dormant Alganon? This past week, the official account announced that the website is back online and...
Hey-nonny-nonny

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO things you can just stop waiting for

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Sooner or later we all have to face facts and accept that something we wanted at one point is never actually going to happen....
Straight shot.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs you’ve already forgotten ever existed

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Falling into obscurity and then being completely forgotten is the nightmare of any creative artist. This tragic scenario is compounded when it comes to...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 415: Don’t go into the Lightfall

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's update 36, Destiny 2's Lightfall, CCP's blockchain game, DDO's promo, Ship of Heroes on Steam, and the return of Alganon, with adventures in LOTRO, New World, WoW Classic, and City of Heroes, plus a pair of mailbag topics on AI tech in MMOs.

Derek Smart posts video for impending return of 14-year-old MMORPG Alganon

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The story of Alganon has not always been a pretty one, as we've covered as far back as 2010, when a row started between...

End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023

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You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Pay to lose.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that went through complete technical clownshows

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I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...

World of Warcraft Classic reconsiders earlier proposed changes to Wrath’s Ulduar raid

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The devs and community council members of WoW Classic addressed several matters related to the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion earlier in...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 386: Lord of Lord of the Rings Online

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's mini-expansion and IP rights, Dual Universe, Mad World, Wrath Classic's prepatch, Alganon's return, and Guild Wars 2's Steam launch, with adventures in LOTRO, CoH, SWGL, and RIFT, plus a mailbag question on Ultima Online New Legacy.

Derek Smart promises Alganon is returning in the coming months, but in a staggered invite-only release

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Just yesterday we reported on fresh news out of the long-dormant Alganon, pointing out that the game's website came back online, while the game's...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that took aim at World of Warcraft

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The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...
Skeletons vs. tigers is an underappreciated genre.

Alganon’s website is back as Derek Smart explains the relaunch is coming very soon

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Those who had long doubted if Alganon was ever coming back are now invited to eat crow, as it has... a website once again!...

Whatever happened to Derek Smart’s Alganon?

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Sit right back and I'll tell you a tale -- a tale of the most amazing MMORPG that took a trip to the convenience...

The MOP Up: Ultima Online plays Santa and hands out gifts

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Ultima Online is really into gift giving this season, so head in and get yours before they're all gobbled up: "We wish to offer...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that would actually benefit from a Classic server

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Here's the thing about having a classic server for a lot of MMORPGs: It doesn't actually do much. In order for a classic server...
Rimshot.

Derek Smart on the dormant Alganon: ‘It will be back. I promise.’

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If you think you've endured long server maintenance and downtime on a game, you have nothing on Alganon's playerbase. These loyal adventurers saw their...
I still love you, robot.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 211: Carrying the Torchlight

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Justin and Bree deep-dive Torchlight Frontiers and discuss Path of Exile's Synthesis, the great LOTRO and DDO outage of 2019, the impending end of Kritika Online and the Foundry system in Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2's warclaw, Alganon, and a mailbag topic about housing in MMOs.

Derek Smart says he’s working on partnership deals to revivify 2009 MMORPG Alganon

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A year and change ago, we covered the strange case of MMO Alganon, and now it's back in the news. We've been covering the game...

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