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The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal group size for an MMORPG?
During this week's Massively OP podcast (live this afternoon!), Justin and I tackled a detailed question about MMO group makeup, the trinity, and combat,...
EverQuest II creates a new type of progression server
EverQuest II is no stranger to Daybreak's penchant for creating and operating progression servers. But after all of these years, is there a way...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
Global Chat: Why FFXIV is the most newbie-friendly MMO
What's the most newbie-friendly MMO? According to Pete at Dragonchasers, it's Final Fantasy XIV. He's been pretty impressed by the support structure that the...
The Daily Grind: Have you picked up any bad habits from MMORPGs?
Star Wars Galaxies came close to wrecking my typing skills. Because semicolons functioned as linebreaks in macros and in chat in SWG, I got...
Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia
Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...
One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
H1Z1 tweaks armor in latest update, shows off new stronghold system
Sometimes you have to ask yourself why developers fix bugs that are clearly awesome. And so it is with H1Z1: King of the Kill's...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
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...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind is the MMO you want and don’t want
I have been head-over-heels for Elder Scrolls Online since One Tamriel, and the Morrowind chapter has only added to my enthusiasm for the game....
Will Smed’s Amazon game utilize shooter mechanics?
Back in February, we learned the fate of MMORPG industry veteran John Smedley: He's heading up a new game for Amazon Game Studios.
Smed is...
H1Z1 announces $100K prize pool Elite Series summer e-sports tournament
Soloers and team players alike are invited to put their skills to the test in H1Z1's newest tournament, the Elite Series. Debuting at DreamHack...
EverQuest players vote on the next step for Lockjaw progression server
One of EverQuest's progression servers stands at the threshold of a major step into a larger world. The population of the Lockjaw shard is...
Amazon Game Studios grabs H1Z1’s art director
Amazon Game Studios continues to lure talented developers away for its new multiplayer projects. Sebastian Strzalkowski became the latest to defect to the new...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on the new website and colossal ship migration
Big changes are coming to Star Citizen -- well, to its website. This week's episode of Around the Verse explains that the game's website...
DC Universe Online fires up the Age of Justice today
A new age is arriving in DC Universe Online, and it has little to nothing to do with Aquarius. It's the Age of Justice,...
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...
