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Massively OP Podcast Episode 372: Blizzard’s great mobile hope

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Justin and bree discuss Blizzard's quarterly financials, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, Forsaken World's sunset, ZeniMax's rumored Star Wars MMO, and EVE Fanfest and its COVID outbreak, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends, plus a voicemail topic on MMOs moving from fantasy to sci-fi.

Open-source MMORPG sandbox Ryzom has lowered its subscription price – again

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This spring, at least two major MMORPGs, RuneScape and EVE Online, made the bold move to increase their subscription rates as their playerbases grumbled....

Star Trek Online’s Stormfall brings two new featured episodes to PC players today

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As promised, Star Trek Online's Stormfall is blanketing MMO players today as the latest Mirror Universe release drops on PC. The update features a...

EVE Fanfest 2022: All the major EVE Online announcements from Fanfest

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It's safe to say that EVE Fanfest 2022 was very much a social event first and a game event second, with fewer concrete announcements...

Destiny 2 kicks off the Guardian Games and answers weapon questions as the FTC investigates Sony’s buyout of Bungie

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Let the games begin! The Guardian Games, that is, as the Olympic-like competition among the three classes of Destiny 2 kicked off last week....

EVE Fanfest 2022: Fanfest attendees have already begun testing positive for COVID

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(We've updated this post at the end with the latest counts and info.) EVE Fanfest 2022 in Reykjavik is barely over, and the first cases...

PlanetSide 2 adjusts its main navigation menu, tweaks weapons, and seeks feedback from Connery server players

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For PC players of PlanetSide 2, there's some new menu navigation experiences available. Yes, an update menu is at the heart of the latest...

EVE Fanfest 2022: The EVE Online universe FPS is still in development

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EVE Online developer CCP Games has had its eye on the first-person-shooter genre for over a decade at this point, starting with its PS3-exclusive...
People always ask why I pick these screenshots and the answer is usually just that I felt like it.

Warframe’s TennoCon returns as an all-digital event on July 16

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Warframe fans, block off July 16th in your calendars: That's the day Digital Extremes is setting aside for the return of TennoCon. The studio...
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Star Wars The Old Republic talks up its presence at this year’s in-person Star Wars Celebration

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There's going to be another in-person event happening - specifically Star Wars Celebration at the Anaheim Convention Center on May 26th through the 29th...

Star Citizen talks with its tool developers in latest video

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If you're going to build something, you're going to need tools, and that's obviously no different in game development. The weekly video series that...

EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online is getting a Spanish client

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EVE Online has been an intensely international game throughout its lifetime, with significant audiences across the US, Europe, and Russia. Most players are stuck...

EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online puts spreadsheets in your spreadsheets

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While EVE Online's nickname of "spreadsheets in space" was intended as a joke, the developers behind the game are really leaning into it. CEO...

Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing

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We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...
So, if you still think is happening...

CIG’s reports for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 recount work on AI, area design, and bedsheet deformation

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The monthly development progress reports for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are in, and as the headline to this story suggests, updates from last...

Jack Emmert is apparently leading a new NetEase studio – and not Daybreak’s Marvel MMO

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So remember how Jack Emmert, the former Cryptic Studios boss, had moved over to Daybreak in 2016, where he was heading up Dimensional Ink,...

Elite Dangerous lays out 2022 roadmap, new plan for console-to-PC migration

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At this point, anything Frontier announces for Elite Dangerous makes players just as nervous about the game's future as bad news and no news,...

Perfect Ten: Why we need more post-apocalyptic MMOs

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Ever since playing the original Wasteland back in the late '80, I've had a high fascination with post-apocalyptic settings. Yet it's not been the...

Star Trek Online unveils an event on PC for a unique ground set as part of its May 10 update

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While most PC players of Star Trek Online are likely eager to jump in to the new story content when the Stormfall update arrives...

Destiny 2 studio Bungie issues forceful statement on workers’ healthcare rights

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In the wake of news that the US Supreme Court is likely to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that safeguards people's right...

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