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Choose My Adventure: Reconsidering WildStar, from pre-launch to now
In order to talk about WildStar, we kind of have to talk about Firefly. And no, not in the obvious way where we talk...
Global Chat: Get over the lockbox debate already
One of the largest and most enduring arguments of the MMO genre is the purpose, legality, and profitability of so-called lockboxes in games. We've...
Hearthstone: Lost Secrets of Un’Goro expansion possibly leaked
The next expansion or adventure for Hearthstone might have been spotted, thanks to eagle-eyed fans who apparently spend their free time combing through resumes...
Mark Kern’s Em-8ER posts a new THMPR modeling video
Em-8ER, the Mark Kern-led "massive planetary wargame" shooter formerly known as (and still pronounced like) Ember, has a new video out today showing off...
Nostalrius has decided handing its WoW emu code to Elysium wasn’t such a good idea after all
So here's a twist in the Nostalrius saga that we didn't see coming: The group has changed its mind about supporting its code on...
Elysium opens up yet another Nostalrius server
The pro-vanilla World of Warcraft community is fond of flinging Blizzard's "you think you do, but you don't" around as a defense for the...
World of Warcraft Q&A covers professions, timewalking, and the Brawler’s Guild
Yesterday, the World of Warcraft Senior Game Designer Paul Kubit sat down to take on a question-and-answer session about this week's Patch 7.1.5 and...
New Nostalrius PvP server goes live this weekend
Just when you thought you were going to get through the new year without a single mention of Nostalrius, January 2017 kicks you in...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2016
Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2016, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...
WoW Factor: A wishlist for 2017 in World of Warcraft
This year has been a pile of garbage and I'll be glad it's over. It's not that I'm convinced 2017 will be any better...
MMO Year in Review: WoW’s legacy server snarl (April 2016)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Why RuneScape embraces legacy servers
One of the big MMO stories in 2016 was the debate and drama over the demand for certain vanilla servers in popular games. Even...
The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day
Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Story of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Story of 2016, which was awarded to the SOE/Daybreak formation drama last year. This isn't an...
25000 people have signed up for the new Nostalrius server so far
According to a tweet by the original folks behind Nostalrius, the new version of the World of Warcraft classic emulator has already (or only,...
Elysium gears up for Nostalrius emu character transfers and relaunch
Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a threat, demanding that the game studio create official vanilla...
Nostalrius is resurrecting next week. Your move, Blizzard.
After a yearlong saga that involved the shutdown of an illegal World of Warcraft emulator, fan outcry, Blizzard's high-profile meet-and-greet with the emulator's devs,...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
Mark Kern renames Ember to Em-8ER, picks up Nostalrius programmer
Earlier this month, Mark Kern's "massive planetary wargame" shooter Ember got a new name and logo: Em-8ER.
"While still pronounced 'Ember,' we changed the official...
Nostalrius releases WoW emu source code to community, Elysium plans Nostalrius shards
Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the now-sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a vague threat. "If Blizzard doesn’t make an announcement...
