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Massively Overthinking: Random encounters in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us:
Are...
Ask Mo: If Star Wars Galaxies is so smart, why ain’t it rich?
Star Wars Galaxies would have been 12 years old this week, had it lived a day past Star Wars: The Old Republic. That makes...
Sit and stay awhile with Landmark’s newest update
Let there be chairs! In the latest Landmark Live broadcast, Producers Terry Michaels and Emily Taylor show off some of the changes added to...
The Stream Team: On the front lines in PlanetSide 2
In honor of PlanetSide 2's launch on the PlayStation 4 yesterday, MassivelyOP's MJ is returning to the battle! However, on the PC there's no...
PlanetSide 2 hits European snags, closes in Korea
It isn't all sunshine and daisies for PlanetSide 2, even following yesterday's massive PlayStation 4 launch. For starters, the European servers for all PlayStation...
The Stream Team: Ode to EverQuest II’s past and future
Even though MassivelyOP's MJ adores EverQuest II now, she's looking forward to jumping into the upcoming progression servers herself and starting life over from scratch....
EverQuest II adds fabled Echoes of Faydwer zones, talks expansion servers
EverQuest 2 is releasing a handful of Fabled Echoes of Faydwer zones today. The Acadechism, The Court of Innovation, and the Crypt of Valdoon...
E3 2015: PlanetSide 2 launches on PS4 today with a better build than beta
Console fans rejoice: After a lenthy beta-testing period, PlanetSide 2 finally launched on the PlayStation 4 in both North America and Europe today. Now...
Not So Massively: All the online gaming news from E3 2015
It's been a big week for online gaming, with several high-profile reveals and announcements made at E3 2015. The latest version of MOBA-esque space...
EverQuest’s popular progression servers face content competition challenges
Daybreak says that it is tweaking raid targets and high-end zones for EverQuest's new progression servers. "There are more active players on Ragefire and Lockjaw...
The Stream Team: Heaping helpings of H1Z1 carnage
MassivelyOP's MJ has had quite a week! It wasn't H1Z1-virus-spreading-around-the-world bad, but the mantra "If it can go wrong, it will" followed her throughout...
The Game Archaeologist: Seven MMOs operating on borrowed time
Most everyone who knows me well will acknowledge that I'm not generally a cynical, dark person. I'm not rooting for games to fail, for...
Landmark devs: Respawning is working as designed
Addressing complaints that respawning mobs and resources are broken in Landmark, Daybreak came out today to say that, on the contrary, everything is working...
Massively Overthinking: The value of MMO voice chat
This week's Massively Overthinking question was shot over to us from Kickstarter donor Celestial, and it's all about voice chat in MMOs.
Do you use a...
E3 2015: H1Z1 streamlines base building with construction boxes
The dust hasn't even settled from H1Z1's recent base-building update, and already Producer Steve George has revealed to us at E3 2015 another great...
EverQuest II outlines plans for new timelocked servers
It's hard to deny that there was a definite appeal to EverQuest's progression server when it first came out. So the EverQuest II team...
Global Chat: Does the 12X leveling speed hurt or help SWTOR?
I love seeing interaction and cooperative projects between MMO bloggers because what fun is there in being an island? Especially when we talk about...
EverQuest 2 will merge servers ‘within the next few months’
EverQuest 2 producer Holly Longdale says that Daybreak will merge US servers on the long-running fantasy MMO "within the next few months."
She says that merges...
One Shots: Bagpipes in the woods
I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of bagpipe music, although I do harbor a certain fascination for any musical instrument that looks...
PlanetSide 2 discontinues support for 32-bit client
The shift to widespread use of 64-bit operating hardware and systems is a good thing in many ways; for one thing, it means that...
