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The Secret World adds four side missions and two rare bosses

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Update 13.1 has landed with an ominous thud in the middle of The Secret World's Kaidan, and players can only shudder at what unholy...

The Repopulation will announce new development plans this month

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The Repopulation is making plans, and they aren't plans to shut down. The sandbox studio Above and Beyond became ensnared in HeroEngine's financial problems last fall...

Shroud of the Avatar’s alpha testing is ‘on the horizon’

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Alpha testing for Richard Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar is "on the horizon," says a newsletter published for followers this past weekend. It's been in...
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The Daily Grind: Do you use Steam for MMOs?

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Massively OP reader Damonvile recently sent us a link to a Medium piece on Steam declaring 2015 the best year for Steam -- ever. Sales...

Indie sandbox TUG secures $8.5M in new funding, delays game for engine switch

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Indie sandbox TUG has become the beneficiary of a huge windfall. In a new Kickstarter update sent to backers this afternoon, Nerd Kingdom announced that...

Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2015

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It's become tradition to fare well the MMOs that sunsetted in the preceding year, but that wasn't always the case. At the beginning of 2015,...

SWG-inspired sandbox Divergence Online is now on Steam early access

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If you've been waiting over the last week for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release, wait no longer:...

Wizard Online takes a stab at a full-fledged VR MMO

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With virtual reality headsets hitting the market, a hot topic in the MMO community has been over when we'll be seeing VR merge with...

Divergence Online calls for an indefinite moratorium on ‘gaming yelp reviewer bullshit’

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Still waiting for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release? Stained Glass Llama's Ethan Casner is too. While we...

Origins of Malu is launching in stages early this year

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Wondering whatever happened to Origins of Malu? Apparently the devs were working elsewhere for a while but have now turned their attention back to...

Linkrealms announces winter beta, Steam early access in March

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Linkrealms developer Mythyn Interactive announced today that it's planning a Steam early access launch in March 2016 and as well as a fresh round of beta testing in...

ARK lets you hop around on a prehistoric kangaroo

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Bet when you woke up this morning you didn't know that you were going to learn what a Procoptodon was. Well you are right...

Hardcore sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online preps for Steam early access launch

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Sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online is on the way to Steam's early access program -- at least, it will be when someone at Valve wakes...

Tiptoeing through ArcheAge’s 2015

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It has been quite a year for ArcheAge. As you look back over the past 12 months, you certainly can't say 2015 was uneventful;...

Perfect Ten: The MMORPGs to watch in 2016

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A long time ago on another website far, far away, I held a tradition of kicking off the new year by listing the top...

Valve finally addresses Steam’s Christmas fiasco, says a DDOS led to the caching error

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Valve has finally addressed Steam's Christmas caching fiasco. In an announcement today, it explains the problem: that for 90 minutes on Christmas day, people...

The Repopulation rejects blame for Hero Engine’s financial struggles

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The Repopulation's struggles with the money-troubled Hero Engine service have led to game delays, server downtime, and suspended development, and the drama continues today. Earlier this week,...
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Global Chat: Wrapping up 2015 across the MMORPG blogosphere

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As the final pages turn on 2015, MMO bloggers engage in a favorite pastime of recalling their best and most notable gaming experiences of...

Not So Massively: Top 10 most surprising NSM stories of 2015

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Back in 2011, our former corporate overlords at Massively-of-old noticed that games like League of Legends were getting pretty damn popular and asked us to work...

Massively OP’s 2015 Blooper Awards: Most Predictable MMO Delay

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most Predictable MMO Delay. And the winner is... The Division The Division was unveiled at E3 in...

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