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Elite: Dangerous offering Steam keys to game owners
Good news if you've purchased or are thinking of purchasing Elite: Dangerous from the game's website: Frontier said that it will be offering Steam...
Star Trek Online interviews Voyager veterans and Season 10 voice actors
Star Trek Online's Season 10: The Iconian War adds franchise veterans Robert Duncan McNeill and Lisa LoCicero to the fold. McNeill and LoCicero will...
MMO Mechanics: Three favourite action combat systems
Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...
Make My MMO: May 9, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned everything we ever wanted to know about Star Citizen's first person shooter module, plus a bit more....
Star Citizen reveals Star Marine’s SATA Ball and a whole lot more
Cloud Imperium has dropped a huge info bomb regarding Star Marine, which is what the firm is calling Star Citizen's first person shooter functionality. Like...
Star Citizen releases retro-themed browser arcade game
Forget Arena Commander -- the new hotness in the Star Citizen universe is Hyper Vanguard Force IV. And you can play it right now...
Elite’s Mac client launches May 12, Powerplay beta on May 20
This week's Elite: Dangerous newsletter covers quite a bit of ground. Firstly, the game's Mac client will launch on May 12th. Mac and PC...
Smedley has bright predictions for PlanetSide 2’s future
It's been said before and will be said again a few more times before it's no longer true: Fans of Daybreak games are a...
Massively Overthinking: The return of ‘consequences’ to MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Kickstarter donor Antonia "Toni" Phillips aka ToniLyran, who's hit on a sore point with our writers, it...
New EVE dev blog details nullsec and sov changes
If you've got an interest in EVE Online's upcoming changes to nullsec and sovereignty mechanics, and you've got a lot of time, you'll probably...
SWTOR players harass a BioWare dev and his family
What do you do when MMO devs mess with your favorite class? If you're a handful of Star Wars: The Old Republic players,...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs still going after ten years
It struck me, very recently, that a decade is a long time for MMOs.
If we're going to count Ultima Online as the first proper...
Star Wars: The Old Republic cracks down on RMT ring
In the MMO community, shady websites selling game currency for real currency are considered especially heinous. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, these operations...
The Daily Grind: Which indie MMO are you looking forward to the most?
When it comes to indie MMOs, there's no shortage of them in development. Shards Online is topping my most anticipated list at the moment,...
Yay, SWTOR is less of a grind (again)
BioWare has outlined its approach to the latest Star Wars: The Old Republic 12x experience event which is now active. The boost enables subscribers to...
Destiny prepares to throw players into the Prison of Elders
The bad news: You've been sentenced to prison and are severely outnumbered by powerful, ancient beings. The good news: The warden has allowed you...
Global Chat: What happens to original MMOs when they get sequels?
Telwyn at GamingSF asks a question that I've contemplated from time to time: When an MMO gets a sequel, what happens to the original...
EVE Online previews 12th anniversary presents for players
Did you know that tomorrow is EVE Online's 12th anniversary? It's pretty old! And as is the tradition these days, the developers are celebrating...
There’s an ARG going on in Elite: Dangerous right now
Elite: Dangerous players are in the midst of an ARG based around in-game artifacts that were tracked down by a coordinated community effort. Producer...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s 12x XP leveling guide and Ziost’s finale
Happy Revenge of the Fifth! Because this column comes out on Tuesday, I'm a wee bit behind on wishing you a happy Star Wars...
