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TERA doubles and triples rewards this weekend
You know how parts of the inhabited world are freezing into a solid mass of glacial ice this week? That is all the excuse...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
Secret World Legends patches in winter event, barbershop, and plastic surgeon
Even with Tokyo completely reinstated into Secret World Legends, this reboot is still finding more content to add back in after starting over from...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Brad McQuaid: MMO devs are ‘making the very, very early foundations of the Holodeck’
Pantheon and MMOs like it are bringing our dream future one step closer (or at least, Lt. Barclay's dream future), Brad McQuaid suggests in a new interview...
The Daily Grind: How would you solve the housing server merge problem?
When ArcheAge launched, I was one of those who was brutally harsh about its mind-numbingly stupid housing system, a more or less open-world system...
EVE Online delivers ‘sneak preview’ of winter release
Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the walls of EVE Online's offices, buzzing to and fro and learning all about what the...
SWTOR lists class specs slated for Update 5.3 love
BioWare has informed players that some of Star Wars: The Old Republic's advanced classes and disciplines will be getting some changes and love with this...
Ashes of Creation hires five new team members, shows off snowy environments
As Ashes of Creation takes aim at the $3M line for its Kickstarter campaign, Intrepid Studios announced that it has made several significant hires...
Destiny 2 will take you to Titan, Io, and beyond
With the Vanguard scattered to the interstellar wind in Destiny 2, it will be up to player characters to travel to different planets in...
Destiny 2 launches on PC and console September 8, ‘and there will be a ton of loot’
As teased and prodded and hinted at all week, Destiny 2 is official, and we've finally got a trailer to go with it. Expect...
Global Chat: Fare thee well, Landmark
Believe it or not, there were actually people who played and enjoyed Landmark -- and were saddened to see it taken offline. To kick...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #24-19
What are the best and most popular MMO theme songs of all time? A couple of weeks ago I posed this question to the...
The Exiled outlines early access packages, denounces pay-to-win
With just a week to go until its early access launch on February 23rd, indie "social sandbox" The Exiled -- formerly known as Das...
EverQuesting: Ten things to do in Landmark before it’s gone
T minus 11 days and counting. That's all the time Landmark has left. That's not a lot of time. If you haven't built all...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO magic system?
While there are plenty of similarities among magic systems in MMOs (hey, how about you cast another fireball? There you go, champ!), there is...
Jukebox Heroes: Six MMOs that need official soundtrack releases
For an avid fan of video game soundtracks, and of MMO soundtracks in particular, the most frustrating aspect of collecting and listening to these...
EverQuesting: Welcome to the Daybreak family, LOTRO and DDO
Sometimes there's news that just makes you go, "Huh?" At times it happens because said information makes no sense whatsoever; other times it surprises...
Pantheon shows off Unite demo, talks grouping and crafting
Fresh off its demo of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen at Unite 2016, Visionary Realms has just posted its November newsletter for followers of the...
Star Citizen dishes on alpha 2.6 progress and procedural planets
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is ostensibly a check-in with the Frankfurt team, but there's quite a bit of teasing for 2.6...
