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Elite Dangerous’ Odyssey expansion won’t include base building or VR compatibility at launch
Earlier this week, Frontier summoned cheers with the announcement that next year's Elite Dangerous expansion is called Odyssey and will indeed include content that...
The Daily Grind: What was the last ‘new’ thing you learned about an MMO you’ve played a long time?
So I've been playing SWG Legends about two years now, and yet I'm constantly learning things that are completely new to me. For example,...
Massively Overthinking: Deleting pieces of MMOs to save them
Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...
EVE Online patch enables trillions of ISK in theft from inactive players
When EVE Online introduced player-built citadels in the 2016 Citadel expansion, there were fears that people wouldn't trust them enough to put their valuable...
EVE Evolved: A live event threatens to reshape EVE Online’s map
While EVE Online has always focused on the real stories created by players through player-vs.-player conflict rather than on its NPC storyline, its universe...
Vendetta Online adds a hidden star system and its new economy in the latest updates
Vendetta Online has made some pretty significant updates over the past couple of weeks. One of them has added some new dimensions to the...
Perfect Ten: An entirely accurate and unassailable history of pet classes in MMORPGs
Pet classes! They're a very important part of MMORPGs, the opportunity to not just go into combat alone but to march in alongside a...
Elite Dangerous begins its ‘next era’ Odyssey next year – yes, it’s the space legs expansion
Today's Elite Dangerous expansion announcement isn't going to come as a surprise to long-time players, who already knew that Frontier was working on a...
A happy posthumous birthday to the dearly departed WildStar
Today marks the six-year anniversary of WildStar's release. There are no in-game events planned for the game, however, due to the fact that the game...
Global Chat: The right gear for the right occasion
Some of us are the types of players who are more than satisfied to get one be-all, does-all suit of gear and wear that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 274: Greymoor, BlizzCon, and Guild Wars 2
Justin, Bree, and Colin discuss Phantasy Star Online 2, Elder Scrolls Online Greymoor, Guild Wars 2 No Quarter, LOTRO and DDO's new monetization, and BlizzCon's cancellation, with adventures in ESO, Fallout 76, GW2, SWG Legends, LOTRO, and Minecraft Dungeons, plus mailbag topics on international releases and dream MMOs.
Choose My Adventure: Star Trek Online and my hunger for a space MMO
My installation of Star Citizen isn't working right, and Elite Dangerous has some neat things going on but not the right kind of hooks...
Star Citizen fans debate monetization, journalism, and the state of the game
This past Sunday, I was invited to join the Sol Citizens community podcast to talk about what it's like to cover Star Citizen. As...
David Braben of Elite: Dangerous sees physical games going away in two to three years
Attention, everyone who ordered a physical copy of a video game within the past year: David Braben is coming for your physical games with...
Star Citizen discusses the steps needed to add salvage gameplay
Miner. Delivery driver. Bounty hunter. Criminal. There are several sorts of loose professions in Star Citizen's alpha right now, but one sort of profession...
PlanetSide 2 player passes one million kills and becomes a ‘killionaire’
PlanetSide 2 recently welcomed its first "killionaire," as player Mentis2k6 reached one million kills on a single character. In honor of the occasion, Daybreak...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends shows off Bespin, paves the way for Empire Day 2020
Things are still being updated in the rogue server known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends in 2020, and the latest community transmission newsletter has...
The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel
It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...
Global Chat: Does SWTOR fail in the end for (Han) soloers?
As his name suggests, FibroJedi is a big Star Wars: The Old Republic player -- but even so, he is not above criticizing the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?
A few weeks back, I was swapping my SWG Legends character to a new class when my five-year-old daughter started begging me to swap...