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Has 2024 put the game industry ‘on the brink of disaster’? Extra Credits weighs in

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If you haven't been paying attention -- despite even our own hollering it from the rooftops -- this year has been absolutely terrible for...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs

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Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...

The MOP Up: Lost Skies gets downright cozy inside of its ships

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Lost Skies' February dev blog showed off some UX work, early prototypes of its weapon damage system, and some super-cozy ship interior concepts. Also, the...

Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games

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The Nightingale team's admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game - and that Inflexion is now planning to do...

Four Winds: Phantasy Star Online 2 offers some of the best social features in MMORPGs

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I don't know about everyone else, but a huge part of MMOs for me is the fashion. My characters need to absolutely slay the runway...

Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel

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A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two

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Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...

Phantasy Star Online 2’s latest update adds more story and raises the level cap as SEGA America begins layoffs

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Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis players are in for a treat today, and they deserve it after waiting through a nine-hour maintenance with...
Something fell.

The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0

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Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...

Four Winds: Catching up with Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis

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I believe it was Napoleon Bonaparte that once said "SEGA better release Phantasy Star Online 2 stateside or I'm going to conquer France." Unfortunately,...

The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Bustin’ Out, the online Sims game nobody remembers

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Many gamers who complete that Venn diagram of being fans of both MMOs and The Sims no doubt will be familiar with the tragically...
The look.

Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are still just games you rent

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When I was a teenager, I accidentally stole a few games from a video rental place. You might wonder how you accidentally steal something,...

Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis confirms preset skill updates are arriving in late January

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This bit of Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis news is probably going to be aimed more towards the regular and deeply entrenched players,...
waugh? okay

The MOP Up: Warhammer Online’s Return of Reckoning ‘chickens out’

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Return of Reckoning's rogue server changed how combat buffs worked and added a new level 40 quest that pays out in, er, a "Chicken...

Elder Scrolls Online is changing the name of its Endless Archive content to Infinite Archive

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Elder Scrolls Online's Endless Archive has been live for only six weeks, and it's already undergoing a major change... to its name. ZeniMax Online...

Phantasy Star Online 2 celebrates its 2.5th anniversary (?) with a Super Genesis Festival

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You're going to have to roll with the oddity on this one because SEGA is celebrating Phantasy Star Online's 2.5th anniversary of the New...

Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis’ December 6 update focuses on powering up characters faster

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If you've felt daunted by the prospect of climbing the character and item levels needed to get to some of the juicy new stuff...

MMO Business Roundup: NetEase’s Worlds Untold, Embracer, Ubisoft, unionization, and Epic v. Google

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry and business news. Numbers numbers numbers! NetEase - The Chinese megacorp NetEase just can't...

Sega’s cancelled PvPvE shooter Hyenas was reportedly a doomed project from the very start

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Have you heard about Hyenas? It's OK if you didn't, as this PvPvE shooter from developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega had a pretty...

Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis gets more quests, story, events, and level cap raise in October

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It's the final week of September, and that means Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is looking ahead to the slate of October updates...

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