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Nightmare is a new F2P pixelart MMORPG that’s launched on Steam today

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Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the launch of a new MMORPG! We're talking about Nightmare, a new open-world retro pixelart MMO from the indie...

The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s many MMO spin-off digital card games

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One thing that I deeply admired about old Sony Online Entertainment was that it strove to experiment, innovate, and take risks. Sometimes those special...

Global Chat: Returning to Guild Wars 2

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Guild Wars 2's new (old) leadership, uptick in communication, and upcoming expansion have a lot of MMO players returning to the game lately --...
I'll be gone soon.

Massively Overthinking: MMO ideas that were ahead of their time

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I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...

Trove’s latest PC patch adds ‘Depth Stepper’ gates to elite delves

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Gamigo has rolled out a fresh content patch for Trove, at least for PC. The studio's calling it the Depth Stepper update. What the...

Choose My Adventure: Club Worlds are the pinnacle of player creativity in Trove

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Homestead who? Dungeons what? Player-made items? Don’t need ‘em. The pinnacle of player creativity in Trove, without any peer or equal, is the Club...
I suppose it's cheaper than actually hiring someone to design these spaces?

The Game Archaeologist: Jeff Butler on EverQuest, EverQuest Next, and Vanguard

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As an MMO historian, I have to applaud the work of former SOE developer Shawn Lord in his huge interview series with the people...

South Korea plans to abandon its 10-year-old ‘Cinderella law’ gaming curfew for kids

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If you can stretch your brain back a decade, you might remember a flurry of articles in the western press about a gaming curfew...

Choose My Adventure: A quick spot of building and crafting in Trove

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I have to admit, this one didn't take long at all to get through. I sort of assumed that building things in Trove was...

Global Chat: Hitting that endgame wall in MMOs

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MMO blogger Digital Visceral recently wrote about a situation that many of us encounter in our games: Hitting that max level and feeling at...

Choose My Adventure: Back to the basic joys of dungeon running in Trove

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This is way more like it. The bare bones, basic, simple delight of Trove continues to be running around the open world, heading to whatever...
At long last, shooty men!

The MOP Up: Warface’s Hidden War is revealed

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This week, Warface kicked off its Hidden War season: "The season update adds a new PvP-map called Ruins for capture mode where players can...

Choose My Adventure: A sample platter of classes and a taste of Geode boredom in Trove

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You know what the problem is with Trove in the beginning? It just throws so much stuff at you that when you do something...

The Game Archaeologist: Defining the eras of MMORPG history

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With MMO history stretching back to the early 1980s (and even before), this genre has accumulated a whole lot of history over the years....

Choose My Adventure: Tearing through the colorful world of Trove at breakneck speeds

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The idea to play Trove this month ended up being something of a needed breath of fresh air for me. With all of the...

Fallout 76 outlines a fix-filled patch for August 3, announces another Gold Rush weekend, and shares radio plays

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While many players of Fallout 76 are understandably looking toward the Fallout Worlds custom server feature, there are other things to look forward to...

Choose My Adventure: Wakfu definitely isn’t my cup of tea (and that’s OK)

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Well, I tried, everyone. I really did. But sometimes you just have to sort of admit when you're diametrically opposed to a game. Thus...

Realm of the Mad God’s biggest patch of the year lands August 17

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It's been a while since we poked our head into Realm of the Mad God - the top of the year, in fact. Back...

Trove celebrates sixth birthday with Sunfest party, questing, and cake

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Sunfest has returned to Trove just as the game is celebrating its sixth birthday, at least if you're on PC or a console not...

The Stream Team: Party time for Trove’s sixth birthday

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Trove turned the big six today! The adorable game is ripe for fun festivities, and Massively OP's MJ is ready to party. Maybe she...

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