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End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025

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One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...

Star Trek Online rings in the holidays with the return of Q’s Winter Wonderland

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It's Christmastime in the final frontier yet again! That's because Star Trek Online has reopened the Q's Winter Wonderland event zone with returning events...

Not So Massively: Immortal Gates of Pyre offers multiplayer RTS fans a glimmer of hope

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It's been a busy month for fans of the real time strategy genre. Even as Stormgate ran its early access preview, another crowdfunded StarCraft...

For Science: EVE Online ramps up cancer-fighting Project Discovery with new minigames and rewards

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You know, one of my all-time favorite types of stories to write are about EVE Online's Project Discovery. It's science, MMOs, and warm fuzzies...

Call of Duty shares results of an experiment that quietly changed player matchmaking

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If you happened to be playing a few matches of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and found your matches to be a little...

For Science: Research study identifies money laundering patterns in the Steam Marketplace

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Gamers are probably not going to be surprised about some recent research findings that conclude secondary marketplaces in gaming can be used for money...
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Star Trek Online unveils the Heritage Starship Bundle after teasing it with cryptic hints

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Look. You knew that when Star Trek Online started toying around with pseudo-ARG puzzles regarding its latest promotion that the end result would be...

Stars Reach’s Raph Koster: ‘We’re going into space, and it’s going to be awesome’

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Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with yet another batch of Stars Reach game pillars, the driving concepts behind the MMORPG sandbox's design. We've...

Black Desert readies new Dosa skills on PC, adds alpaca mounts on console, changes item acquisition on mobile

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It's time for another week of updates to Black Desert, and this week we're going to begin with the console version's patch, primarily because...

TennoCon 2024: The terrific twos of TennoCon charities and Make-A-Wish

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Good things come in twos at TennoCon 2024. Even the year itself is beautifully divisible by twos. But the best of the twos isn't...

Anarchy Online gets a nod from Funcom on the occasion of its 23rd birthday

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While last year saw an in-game celebration for Anarchy Online's 22nd birthday, so far there hasn't been much more than a brief acknowledgement from...

Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the burgeoning gacha gaming industry

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In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2

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It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

RuneScape opens the Daemonheim Archaeology site, Old School RuneScape readies a mobile UI beta

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Sure, a location known as Daemonheim is probably a dangerous place for archaeologists to go sniffing around, but do you really think that will...

SGF 2024: Aloft is a cozy Ghibli-inspired PvE-centric survival sandbox in the sky

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When I first heard about Aloft while planning for Summer Games Fest 2024, I figured it would just be a cute multiplayer survival game;...

For Science: Gamer Motivation Survey data suggest strategic gaming in is a nasty decline

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When I first got access to a PC as a kid, it was a couple of years before the first true MMORPG launched, and...

EVE Online confirms main stage guest speakers and activities for EVE Fanfest 2025

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We're not quite halfway through 2024, but that hasn't stopped CCP Games from talking up EVE Online's 2025 edition of the EVE Fanfest event,...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared Skies season without sharing much info

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We're entering the summer season in Pokemon Go, and this one is called Shared Skies. If you ignore the repeat info from the upcoming...

For Science: Fandom’s survey shows a majority of gamers play to unwind and de-stress

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I know you'll all be shocked to learn that people play games to have fun and chill out, but in the current industry, sometimes...
It's not a good game, Beavis.

‘Evergreen titles and robust content pipelines reign supreme,’ says games industry firm Newzoo

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We conveniently had a community discussion on the meaning of old-school when it comes to MMOs earlier this week, so consider that required reading...

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