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MMO Week in Review: AIR’s Elyon rebrand, Elyria’s ‘road to nowhere’

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There's no slowing down for the MMO industry right now, which feels pretty bizarre under the circumstances, but here we are. This week, we...

MMO Week in Review: Elyria’s suspended storm, Guild Wars 2’s lie of omission

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Even in the middle of a pandemic, the MMO industry manages to keep ramping up the news. Not only did Chronicles of Elyria give...

MMO Week in Review: Finding refuge in MMOs from WoW to LOTRO

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This week was both the spring equinox and St Patrick's Day, but you wouldn't know it from the world, which is still reeling from...

MMO Week in Review: So we’re going to Cantha

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The spreading coronavirus has dominated headlines around the world this week, and we can't escape it even here, as gaming events cancel and gaming...

MMO Week in Review: Holly Longdale’s short goodbye

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It's the end of an era for the EverQuest franchise, as this week Holly Longdale, the longtime franchise head only recently installed as the...

MMO Week in Review: Magic Legends and more from PAX East

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This week in MMOs, what should've been an epic week for online gaming with the arrival of PAX East took on a dismal cast...

MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft’s subber casualties

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World of Warcraft had quite a week: It began Shadowlands' alpha, opened a Classic test server, and took heavy subscriber casualties over the last...
Elegy.

MMO Week in Review: Anthem’s second verse

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MOP celebrated its fifth birthday - thanks to you! Yep, we're still here, bringing you MMO news and opinions... like the fact that SWTOR...
I'll be gone soon.

MMO Week in Review: Next let’s do Blizzard Reforged

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Well, that sure was a week. We got our first public look at the real state of Camelot Unchained's tech, CliffyB resurfaced with all-new...

MMO Week in Review: When all you really want is some good MMORPGs

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It wasn't the best week for MMORPG fans. PWE downgraded Torchlight Frontiers into the not-an-MMORPG Torchlight III, Astellia Online's Steam launch was hampered by...

MMO Week in Review: Daybreak, Funcom, and Tencent

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Ah, the start of a new year: the best time for industry shake-ups. Last year's were pretty devastating, you'll recall. So far, though, the...

MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls goes back to Skyrim, New World abolishes FFA PvP

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I thought this week was going to be all about the reveal of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor chapter - who's up for vampire vikings?!...
Deception!

MMO Week in Review: Magic Legends seems less like an MMO by the day

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It was a weird and twisty week in the MMO genre: We talked about Magic Legends' earth elemental butts and not-very-MMO-like state, discussed how...

MMO Week in Review: Welcome to the 2020s, MMO fans

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Welp, we made it, we're here, we're now in the midst of a fourth decadal bracket of MMORPGs. Yay us! Don't imagine for a...

MMO Week in Review: Looking ahead to Guild Wars 2, PSO2, and Elder Scrolls Online

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'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the games industry, not a creature was stirring, not even a... OK not really. Just about...

MMO Week in Review: New World, Magic Legends, and the Dark Heart of Skyrim

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Hope you're not as sick of snowy northerny landscapes as I am because Elder Scrolls Online announced this week that we're headed into Skyrim...
There are about nine million more pressing questions about why you're this way, of course.

MMO Week in Review: Not all heroes (in Guild Wars 2) wear capes

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Guild Wars 2 stole the show this week by dropping a mostly welcome update with new capes, a dynamic HUD, and quality-of-life goodies for...

MMO Week in Review: Black Friday business model shenanigans

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Welp, we're in the home stretch of 2019 now, folks, and if you thought that MMO studios would hunker down and ride out the...

MMO Week in Review: Saluting fallen devs, watching sci-fi MMOs fight

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It's been a week, fam. The MMORPG genre weathered one of its worst tragedies, losing two developers in the span of just a few...
Word of the day calendar.

MMO Week in Review: Crimson Desert and Path of Exile 2

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Korean powerhouse Pearl Abyss dropped a bombshell this week by announcing multiple new MMORPGs, including Crimson Desert, a full-scale AAA MMO due to hit...

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