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Leaderboard: Are you playing on Age of Conan’s new ‘saga’ server?
Age of Conan's Saga of Zath server officially launched yesterday, drawing fresh attention back to the game that Funcom maintenance-moded by proxy last year...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 1
A week ago, I started to engage in an interesting thought experiment. I started jotting down what I thought were the best World of...
Ultima Online says it has ‘no plans to introduce legacy rulesets’
Seems as if everyone wants to talk legacy servers lately, what with RIFT and World of Warcraft getting on board the vanilla train. Even...
A player modder is building the No Man’s Sky you always wanted
Way back in 2016, No Man's Sky was all anyone talked about thanks to misleading hype positioning the game in the stratosphere. In fact, the...
Crowfall explains its fun-first class balancing philosophy
Earlier this week, ArtCraft posted up its monthly ACE Q&A for Crowfall, and there are some juicy nuggets to behold within! Design Lead Thomas...
WoW Factor: Guessing at Battle for Azeroth’s release date using math
The "when will Battle for Azeroth" speculation train is rolling once again because it looks like patch 7.3.5 is just around the corner. We...
Hyperspace Beacon: Three things SWTOR could add in 2018 to turn itself around
Star Wars: The Old Republic did not have a banner year in 2017. It was the first year since the launch year that did...
MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
The Game Archaeologist: Revisiting the first three months of World of Warcraft
Were you there?
Many of us were. Many weren't. Either way, November 23rd, 2004 was a watershed date for the MMORPG industry and one watched...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, it’s time to destroy the Eternal Empire
Those players who were looking for consequence in their Star Wars: The Old Republic storyline can, I'm glad to say, look to Knights of...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft
Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose.
The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...
MassivelyOP’s 2017 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic
With the new expansion, official vanilla servers, and all of the other news from BlizzCon this year, it's a great time to be a...
World of Warcraft lead doesn’t want to talk about Classic, but confirms ‘vanilla means vanilla’
Right out of the gate in the recent World of Warcraft Q&A, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas said that WoW Classic wasn't going to be...
Perfect Ten: What to expect when you play World of Warcraft Classic
Are you ready to play the most anticipated MMORPG from 2004? It turns out that, yes, many of you are. The frenzy over World...
World of Warcraft Classic CMs talk class balance while the forums melt down
It's a really weird and interesting time to be a World of Warcraft fan. While the announcement of WoW Classic has revitalized discussion about...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
One Shots: The party at the end of all things
Do not be alarmed.
Your brain is now under our control, but that is a good thing. You no longer have to worry about the...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2017
Last weekend, even Massively OP was obsessing over BlizzCon, and we thought it would be fun to poll the writers, including those who watched...
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on WoW Classic and the Overwatch toxicity ‘strike team’
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan gave an interview on Reddit this week that provides an interesting perspective from an original World of Warcraft developer who defected to...
