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SWTOR teases next week’s raid bosses, seeks Galactic Starfighter feedback
Next week on July 11th, Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to unleash carnage with Update 5.3. The summer content patch will  change up...
Datamining generates World of Warcraft expansion rumors
Players have datamined a bit out of World of Warcraft's most recent test realm patch that hints at the destination of the next expansion, with...
Secret World Legends posts roadmap for the next year
Funcom is making good on its promise to post a development roadmap for Secret World Legends, as it just put up the schedule of...
Pokemon Go’s first anniversary report card
July 6th, 2017, marks Pokemon Go's first year anniversary. Love it or hate it, it's a game that quickly made a global impact. It's been released...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s mid-term report card
At the beginning of every year, I give the games that I am embedded in a letter grade centered around the four different player...
GTA Online’s Independence Day content is absurdly awesome
Nothing says Independence Day like gang warfare in the streets of Los Santos using guns painted like flags, am I right? Yep, Rockstar is...
Crossout hits 3M players, bans almost 1K of them for cheating
Things are cruising along rather well for the post-apocalyptic death car MMO Crossout, as the team reported late last week that the game had...
Global Chat: Want to see a Magic trick?
So what does the blogging community think of the first IP-related new MMORPG to be announced in years in Magic: The Gathering? It's a little...
The Daily Grind: What kind of MMO achiever are you?
Yesterday's post on Richard Bartle's new unplayer matrix got me thinking once again about my quibbles with the original Bartle quotient, which won't surprise...
LOTRO Legendarium: Simply walking into Mordor
It has been a whirlwind week of news and reveals for Lord of the Rings Online players. Standing Stone Games finally pulled back the...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
RIFT makes Prophecy of Ahnket free forever, preps a Celestial Storm for July 19
Trion World's experiment this past spring with making RIFT's newest expansion free for a limited time is now becoming a permanent fixture. The studio...
World of Warcraft starts testing Argus and Patch 7.3
While the World of Warcraft raiding community soldiers on through the new Tomb of Sargeras and everyone else curses their luck at legendary item...
Global Chat: Secret World Legends edition
Over the past week, many MMO bloggers returned to the conspiracy-laden regions of Secret World Legends to see if they could answer the million-dollar...
World of Warcraft buffs some classes due to Tomb of Sargeras performance
World of Warcraft's newest raid is under close scrutiny by Blizzard, which is evaluating all of the data coming out of it and seeing...
One Shots: En garde!
It's hard to deny that one of Final Fantasy XIV's newest classes marries style and substance, particularly if you're into a certain swashbuckling aesthetic.
Skoryy...
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
ArcheAge Begins puts a call out for Android mobile testers
ArcheAge Begins' title is never going to be as appropriate as it is right now. Gamevil's spin-off of XLGAMES' well-known MMO sandbox has just...
E3 2017: ARK Survival Evolved on scope creep, Xbox One X, and leaving early access
So ARK: Survival Evolved is going to be the first big survival sandbox not named Minecraft or Don't Starve to not only make it to launch...
LOTRO to reveal Mordor expansion and start beta testing this week
By the week's end, Lord of the Rings Online players should know a lot more about the game's coming Mordor expansion -- and even...