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Star Trek Online adds a new console episode, brings back the Infinity lockbox
Star Trek Online's console versions are once again catching up to the PC build, thanks to the addition of The Renegade's Regret featured episode....
Star Wars: The Old Republic doubles your rewards with its latest patch
The latest patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic is doubling your rewards. Your experience? Doubled. Command XP? Also doubled. Other things? Doubled. Incoming...
Defiance’s got 99 problems, but you ain’t one
With the conclusion of Defiance 2050's closed beta last week, players might be at a loss for something to keep them occupied for the...
Elite Dangerous has big plans for a Memorial Day weekend bonus event
Frontier isn't exactly known for running bonus weekends, but it's doing just that in Elite Dangerous as it joins the throng of online games...
PlanetSide 2 celebrates the anniversary of classic PlanetSide
Even though the original PlanetSide has been dead and in the ground for going on two years now, Daybreak isn't going to pass up...
One Shots: A sense of place
Why do you play MMORPGs? What keeps you questing through these ever-growing worlds? I think a lot of us might answer like Zyrusticae in...
Warframe reworks Saryn once again with its latest patch
The most poisonous frame in Warframe had been reworked before, but Saryn needed another pass through the workshop. She has emerged even more powerful,...
EVE Online explains the terrors and thrills of Abyssal Deadspace
Succeed or die trying: That's the attitude you've got to have when heading into EVE Online's new Abyssal Deadspace instances this summer.
CCP explained what...
WildStar’s residential renovation event returns
WildStar's residential renovation event, first introduced back in summer 2017, is making a return for another short-lived run. Considering how many players feel that...
Massively Overthinking: On slavery mechanics in MMOs
Polygon recently had an interview with Conan Exiles creative director Joel Bylos focused on the game's slavery mechanics, a "feature" I had entirely forgotten...
Star Citizen: Around the Verse covers shopping as the community debates pay-to-win
This week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse is all about shopping, and I mean the fun kind of shopping where you spend...
The Daily Grind: Should running multiple MMO accounts be considered pay-to-win?
In the comments of a recent Daily Grind, MOP commenter Sally reminded me that a certain MOP writer who shall remain nameless (Larry!) had...
Destiny 2 will be letting players in on experimental PvP modes at the end of May
The release of Warmind means that Destiny 2 players are due for another roadmap on the game's development, and guess what's shown up? Exactly...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR Summer roadmap might get you back into PvP
Star Wars: The Old Republic producer Keith Kanneg just dropped the next roadmap earlier today, outlining the features upcoming before September and a little bit beyond....
The Stream Team: Out of the vault in SWTOR’s Chapter VII
Into the Void just became Out of the Vault! Massively OP's Larry and MJ are trapped in a SWTOR vault and need to find...
Defiance 2050 records over 3 million dead hellbugs from its closed beta
If you were taking part in the closed beta for Defiance 2050, you were probably killing Hellbugs. Just from a statistical standpoint. There are...
Elite Dangerous floats sweeping changes to make its Powerplay mode fully open PvP
Elite Dangerous is considering revamping its Powerplay mode, and it's not going to make everyone happy, especially solo players.
Powerplay, you'll recall, is sort of...
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever walked away from an MMO over a studio’s treatment of its playerbase?
Star Wars Galaxies' NGE is one of the MMORPG genre's favorite bugbears: We pull it out as a warning, a label of doom, every...
Warframe is reworking Saryn to be more intuitive and heavily revamping melee
Change is afoot in Warframe, say a pair of dev workshop articles accompanying last week's dev stream. The first details the rework of Saryn...