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Global Chat: World of Warcraft BlizzCon reactions

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Whether you play it now or not, chances are that your paths have crossed with World of Warcraft in the past. This is true...

World of Warcraft Classic announcement sends shockwaves through the vanilla emulator community

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As the World of Warcraft community grapples with the surprise BlizzCon announcement of a classic server, one subset of players in particular are feeling...

The Daily Grind: Will you be playing World of Warcraft’s Classic servers?

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I think it's safe to say, after all the Nostalrius and legacy server drama from last year, that Blizzard has surprised a lot of...

BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft’s classic server will be a ‘massive effort’

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In the process of picking yourself up off of the floor following Friday's announcement of World of Warcraft Classic at BlizzCon 2017? As your...
If you look to your left, you will see a sad person.

BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft ‘Classic’ finally delivers on legacy servers

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World of Warcraft delivered a jaw-dropping surprise to its loyal community with an amazing announcement at this weekend's BlizzCon. Blizzard took to the stage...

World of Warcraft emulator leaders attempt to soothe a skittish community

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Following a nasty bout of corruption and scandal, the Elysium Project -- a World of Warcraft vanilla emulator -- has officially disbanded. In its...

The Game Archaeologist: The Chronicles of Spellborn

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Hey! Hey you! Yeah, you the I'm-so-bored-with-all-of-these-MMOs gamer! You've been grousing about for years how MMOs never take risks, never innovate, and are merely...

ARK Survival Evolved launches today; get caught up here with the trailer and roundup!

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Try to hold back your shock: Sci-fi-dino-themed survival sandbox ARK Survival Evolved is really, truly, launching today, so put all those delay gripes and...

World of Warcraft’s Burning Crusade emulator shut down by Blizzard cease-and-desist

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Well, what did you think was going to happen? As they have no legal legs on which to stand, MMORPG emulator projects operate on the...
Bones.

The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?

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Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...

Perfect Ten: MMO zones I love to hate

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Let's be frank: Not every MMO zone can be a masterpiece of art, design, quest flow, and navigability. I mean, they totally should be,...
Elf elf elf.

New World of Warcraft emulator project takes players back to The Burning Crusade era

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The muddy waters of emulators and the contentious conversation around World of Warcraft legacy servers is getting a whole lot more crazy this summer, thanks...
Welcome to Sucksville, population 25,000.

Em-8ER funds on Indiegogo and adds new stretch goals

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If you were worried that Mark Kern's Em-8ER (properly pronounced "eem-eight-er" for those willing to die upon snarky hills) wouldn't fund on its latest...

NetEase soft-launches WoW-like mobile MMORPG Crusaders of Light today

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Soft-launching today on both the iOS and Android markets is a new mobile MMORPG from Netease dubbed Crusaders of Light. It was originally released...

Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7

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It's starting to get serious now. As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...

Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #18-13

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Last week we were off to a great start as we listened to the first batch of player-voted favorite MMO themes. As I said...

PAX East 2017: Introducing Rend, a three-way survival sandbox from Frostkeep Studios

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I don't really like survival games, typically -- I understand why a lot of people do like them, don't get me wrong, but I don't...
Welcome to Sucksville, population 25,000.

Mark Kern’s Em-8er lore combines Nazis, ghosts, and terraforming

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"Welcome to the world of Ember, or as star charts designate it, Em-8ER ('E-M-Eight-E-R')," says a new dev blog from Mark Kern's Em-8ER MMO...
Fight for something, probably, whatever.

The Elysium WoW emulator community is in total meltdown

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The Elysium World of Warcraft private server community is in total meltdown, so popcorn at the ready. Most MMORPG players would probably have never heard...
Starting off on the autocratic foot.

Choose My Adventure: Reconsidering WildStar, from pre-launch to now

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In order to talk about WildStar, we kind of have to talk about Firefly. And no, not in the obvious way where we talk...

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