vanguard

Official Site: Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (Wikipedia)
Studio: Sigil Games/Sony Online Entertainment
Launch Date: January 30, 2007
Sunset Date: July 31, 2014
Genre: Retro Fantasy Sandpark
Business Model: F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

The MOP Up: Lost Skies gets downright cozy inside of its ships

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Lost Skies' February dev blog showed off some UX work, early prototypes of its weapon damage system, and some super-cozy ship interior concepts. Also, the...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records

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I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it's somewhere between "for amusement value" and "stone cold...

Survival sandbox MMO Myth of Empires launches its 1.0 build on Steam today

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Myth of Empires is flinging open its doors today - right now, in fact - as the sandbox survival MMO launches on Steam at...

Pearl Abyss Q4 2023: Well at least EVE Online had a good financial year

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Pearl Abyss, best known to MMO fans for Black Desert and CCP Games' EVE Online, has continued its humdrum financial performance in Q4 2023,...

Not So Massively: Stormgate isn’t delivering a revolution (yet)

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Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...
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City of Heroes Homecoming opens testing of new Arsenal powersets, epic power pool revamp, TF diversity, and more

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It's finally here, and by here we mean on the Brainstorm beta server: City of Heroes Homecoming's first big patch since April 2023 (and...

EVE Online tweaks Havoc insurgencies, preps monthly EVE Vanguard tests for subbers

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This week's EVE Online patch builds on the Havoc expansion CCP Games dropped before the turn of the new year, with both graphical and...
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Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry

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As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...
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The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0

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Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...

Global Chat: What’s the best Wrath of the Lich King zone?

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With Wrath Classic starting to wrap up, The Ancient Gaming Noob figured that this was the perfect time to rank the famous expansion's zones....

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2023

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This traditional roundup of the best Daily Grinds of the year is actually one of my favorites because it demonstrates just how long we've...

The Survivalist: A toast to Conan Exiles’ new taverns, launching this week’s Age of War Chapter III

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You know that feeling when you get something you really want? Something you've been waiting for? Conan Exiles is giving that to me --...

One Shots: Soft and squishy, yet fierce and determined

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If MMORPGs, anime, and children's cartoons have taught me anything -- and really, it's where I get most of my learning these days --...

Pearl Abyss Q3 2023: Black Desert’s Land of the Morning Light pulled PA out of its slump

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MOP readers might recall that three months ago, the news for Pearl Abyss was looking a bit on the grim side, as the Korean...

Global Chat: EVE Vanguard has a lot to prove

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Just because you're a huge EVE Online fan doesn't mean that you're instantly rallying to the cause of CCP's EVE Vanguard. The Ancient Gaming...

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes emulator continues to improve, but it’s still in alpha

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It's been a year-plus since we last checked in with the Vanguard: Saga of Heroes rogue server project. Since it's been a while, there...

EVE Evolved: Is it too late to start playing EVE Online?

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Sci-fi MMO EVE Online reached a special milestone this year with its 20th anniversary, and for many people, it raises an interesting question: Is...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 438: EverQuest what’s next?

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Justin and Bree discuss the potential for EverQuest 3, the LOTRO remaster's cancelation, EVE Fanfest's EVE Online Havoc and EVE Vanguard reveals, WoW Classic's about-face on LFD, Pantheon's new art style, and Marvel Heroes' code leak, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and Glitch Odd Giants.

EVE Fanfest 2023: EVE players will help cure cancer with new Project Discovery minigame

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Back in 2016, EVE Online developer CCP Games announced an unusual partnership with scientific research organisation MMOs and the Human Protein Atlas. They created...

EVE Fanfest 2023: EVE Online’s Havoc expansion will finally let you side with the pirates

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Details of EVE Online's latest expansion have been revealed at EVE Fanfest 2023, and the word of the weekend is "chaos." The aptly named...

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