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Koster on Star Wars Galaxies’ combat and social connectivity ‘glue’
MMO designer Raph Koster is back with yet another post-mortem on Star Wars Galaxies, this one the second part of his "living society" discussion. Get...
Raph Koster’s epic Star Wars Galaxies’ post-mortem
Veteran game designer Raph Koster has been delivering a series of Star Wars Galaxies post-mortem posts over the past few weeks. We've rounded up...
CCP shines a spotlight on EVE Updates
Today's EVE Online website update is about, well EVE Updates. It's basically a new section of the EVE site devoted to what's coming next...
How Star Wars Galaxies pioneered a ‘living society’
Former Star Wars Galaxies Creative Director and current Crowfall consultant Raph Koster returned to his blog last night to pen the fourth in his...
Global Chat: Are WoW Tokens worth it?
The debut of World of Warcraft Tokens into the game's economy has caused quite a stir, particularly after the prices plunged during the first...
CCP would like you to buy some EVE ship SKINS in its cash shop
CCP is ramping up the focus on its cash shop thanks to a new dev blog examining EVE Online's ship SKIN system. Ship skins are...
Destiny’s creative director to discuss new expansion on tomorrow’s livestream
Destiny's House of Wolves expansion is set to be examined on an upcoming Bungie Twitch reveal. A new social space, new characters, and new...
Star Trek Online’s Iconian War begins today
For the past five years of operation, Star Trek Online has built up to the conflict with the Iconians. Now it's time for the...
SWTOR ‘Fallen Empire’ teaser prompts expansion rumors
The team behind Star Wars: The Old Republic posted a single image with a simple hashtag: #FallenEmpire. No further explanation or extrapolation was offered....
Not So Massively: Star Wars Battlefront is revealed; GTA 5 beats Skyrim
It's been a big week for competitive play in MOBAs. League of Legends opened the registration on its European Battlegrounds tournament and lifted the...
Koster on Star Wars Galaxies’ dynamic world
Raph Koster isn't done talking about Star Wars Galaxies yet, and that's good news for fans, aspiring designers, or really anyone who realizes that...
EVE is adding an assembly effect for anchorable structures
EVE Online is getting a bit prettier with its April 28th patch. CCP's latest dev blog outlines the visual changes coming to anchorable player-owned...
Anarchy Online overhauls its world and professions
Anarchy Online is deploying patch 18.7.0 to the live servers on Tuesday, but if you play the game, you'll probably want to look at...
SWTOR 3.2 boosts class mission XP for subscribers
Did you miss the big Star Wars: The Old Republic cantina livestream from Anaheim? That's all right; the whole livestream is available for you...
MMO Week in Review: Star Wars Galaxies’ new narrative [April 19, 2015]
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
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EVE Evolved: How many subscriptions does EVE have?
Two weeks ago, a mathemagician over at The Nosy Gamer published some interesting calculations showing that EVE Online's subscriptions may have dropped by around...
The Daily Grind: Do you want minigames in your MMO?
I won't pretend that I'm one of the biggest fans of the game, but I'm really glad that Triple Triad is a thing in...
Elite: Dangerous ups the ante for mining
A big Elite: Dangerous update called Powerplay is on the way, and with it will come significant improvements to the space sim's mining game....
How Jedi ruined Star Wars Galaxies
Hope you're not tired of hearing about Star Wars Galaxies because Raph "Holocron" Koster's got SWG on the brain this week, and he's answering...
Tom Paris, Miral Paris coming to Star Trek Online
A pair of veteran actors are joining the cast of Star Trek Online. Lisa LoCicero will be reprising her role as Lieutenant Commander Miral...