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Publisher known in the west primarily for Skysaga and Lost Ark.

Lost Ark reveals new storyline, islands, and raids for players coming in March update

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Lost Ark hasn't even been out in the west for a month and already Amazon is moving forward with a big March update for...

Not So Massively: Lost Ark is junk food gaming (in a good way)

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Having originally played the alpha and the beta, I thought my plan for Lost Ark would be to play other things for the first...

The Daily Grind: Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons launches today – are you coming to Cantha?

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After years and years of joking about and begging for Cantha, Guild Wars 2 players are finally getting it with the launch of End...

The Stream Team: Endgame and island adventures in Lost Ark

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When MOP's Chris last was streaming Lost Ark, he was just making his initial steps into the MMOARPG. Now, he's made it to the...

One Shots: So far from the jungle right now

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Jared the Tiger grew up in the lush jungles of Tyria -- up to the day that he stepped into that trapped and found...

Global Chat: How is the actual story of SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith?

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To kick off this week's parade of MMO essays by bloggers in the virtual trenches, SWTOR site Going Commando gave us an honest review...

The Daily Grind: Are you looking for reasons to *not* play MMOs?

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Earlier this week, I was chatting with MOP's Chris about Conan Chop Chop when he mentioned that the game is surprisingly intense. "It will...

Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago?

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It's 2022 and we're about to talk about free-to-play like it's 2012! Back then, the conversation was all about which MMORPG would fall to free-to-play...

Lost Ark brings back Twitch drops for the weekend, addresses gold seller spam

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If you missed out on Lost Ark's Twitch drops promo during the first chaotic week of the game, fear not: Amazon is bringing it...

Lost Ark says it’s working to fix European servers’ ongoing queue and matchmaking woes

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The experience of central EU players of Lost Ark has been an absolute mess. As we've been reporting, massive player counts in the region...

One Shots: Stepping back from the brink

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A little while ago, I read how some visitors to the Grand Canyon have actually fallen in and perished because they would get a...

Massively Overthinking: Lost Ark and its place in the MMORPG genre

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We've all been watching Lost Ark a very long time; I remember writing an article about it way back in 2014 because I was...

Lost Ark patches in the groundwork for new server cluster Europe West [Update: West is live now!]

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Amazon's Lost Ark patch overnight wasn't a huge one: It's largely a list of bug fixes with dyes, store connection, in-game schedules, DX11, chat,...

Jukebox Heroes: Highlights from Lost Ark’s soundtrack

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It's been a shameful while since I last delivered a Jukebox Heroes column to you, but what better occasion is there for a revival...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 360: The flood of the Lost Ark

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Justin and Bree discuss Lost Ark, Conan Chop Chop, Lord of the Rings IP, WoW 9.2, and TitanReach, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Lost Ark, plus a mailbag topic on zones we just can't stand.

Why I Play: Examining why Lost Ark has me so hooked

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Lost Ark has hooked me pretty deeply. I’m just over 30 levels and five or so days into the game right now, which sometimes...

Lost Ark addresses stability, queue, and missing content issues

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Even citing an "amazing first week" for Lost Ark, Amazon can't deny that the MMOARPG has seen its fair share of launch struggles. The...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best boats as of 2022?

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In fewer than two weeks, Guild Wars 2 is getting something we've never had before in the game: boats. In fact, you might even...

Lost Ark is adding a whole new region in Europe to deal with its massive player counts

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The massive launch of Lost Ark this past weekend shuffled Steam's records and blasted past New World's peak concurrency as the game met a...

Lost Ark eclipses 1.3M players in its second full day of launch as it continues to manage global server load

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We are now past day two of the free-to-play launch of MMOARPG Lost Ark and the game continues to make headlines. Over the course...

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