turbine

American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO beginner zone?

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When it comes to MMO nostalgia, is there anything greater than the places where you first stepped foot into the game? Beginner zones not...
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LOTRO Legendarium: Why people bounce off Lord of the Rings Online

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Any time that you are deeply invested in an MMORPG, it's perhaps one of the most disheartening and frustrating experiences to watch your friends...

One Shots: Murder palaces are always so inviting

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The Secret World was always good at creating spaces that you take one look at and go, "Nope! Not going to walk in there!...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO that you’re not playing?

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The reality of the MMORPG genre is that even when the genre was small, there weren't enough hours in the day to play everything....

The Stream Team: Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons Online’s sweet sixteenth

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If games could drive, Dungeons & Dragon's Online would get its license this week! (Well, I'd stay off the roads if I saw a...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax server moves into Rohan

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Lord of the Rings Online's super-speedy server is now riding, not walking, toward Mordor. That's because Shadowfax has now unlocked the horse-crazy expanse of...
Sometimes you know there's an ongoing story.

Lord of the Rings Online patch adjusts legendary item rewards and new raid

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Lord of the Rings Online players will log in later today to a game mildly improved from where they last left it. Update 32.0.2...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 362: Eternal Winter, Eternity’s End, End of Dragons

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, Black Desert Mountain of Eternal Winter, DDO's 16th anniversary, WoW's Eternity's End, EverQuest II's level-agnostic server, and Elder Scrolls Online's account-wide achievements, with adventures in LOTRO, DDO, ESO, and Guild Wars 2, plus a voicemail on faction identity in MMOs.

Star Wars Galaxies Legends added apartments to Bespin to celebrate its sixth year as a rogue server

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Last spring, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends dazzled Star Wars fans with the introduction of the planet Bespin and Cloud City, but...

Dungeons and Dragons Online makes several races and classes permanently free to mark its 16th anniversary

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It's time to wish a happy 16th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons Online, but it's also time for players to get a pretty sizeable...

Standing Stone Games ‘curious’ about how Lord of the Rings Online works on Steam Deck

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As a possible console edition of Lord of the Rings Online tantalized the imaginations of the game's loyal community, this past week's launch of...

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...

LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring LOTRO Update 32’s Angle of Mitheithel

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Even after a decade-and-a-half of constant expansion, Lord of the Rings Online's Middle-earth has more left to show us than is currently on the...

EG7 Q4 2021: EG7 and Daybreak post huge revenues, bank future on MTGO, LOTRO

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Overnight, Swedish gaming company Enad Global 7 posted its Q4 2021 financial report, which of course is useful to MMORPG players as EG7 has...

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...

DDO’s Update 53 goes live with adventure pack, free unlocks, and anniversary giveaways

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Someone over at SSG really likes alliteration, apparently. Last week, LOTRO received its Rangers and Ruins update, and now Dungeons and Dragons Online is...

Lord of the Rings Online unlocks the doors of its Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra raid this week

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Lord of the Rings Online's newest 12-person raid is about ready to open for business. Standing Stone Games announced that the Hiddenhoard of Abnankâra...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 361: A disturbance in the Force

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Justin and Larry discuss SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith, Palia's business model, LOTRO's Rangers and Ruins, DDO's new producer, and FFXIV's 2022 roadmap, with adventures in SWTOR, LOTRO, Conan Exiles, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on getting back into MMOs and favorite NPCs.

The Daily Grind: Are you more about setting or lore in MMOs?

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I have never really thought of myself as a lore person. I don't go into an MMO and memorize the lore or the backstory,...

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