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The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO meme you...

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2024/07/26

If you were around in the early days of online gaming, you surely remember how terrible the memes were. I mean, I put on my robe and wizard hat? When was the last time you heard someone say that and it wasn’t done ironically? Personally, I started MMOs in Ultima Online, so a lot of […]

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The Stream Team: The prince of trades and Immortality...

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2024/07/25

It’s time to face the music… or at least the archefey and his music. Massively OP’s MJ is going to visit DDO’s Prince of Satyrs Hyrsam at his precarious cliffside castle Duskfall Overlook (thanks to stairs of ice courtesy the Prince of Frost) and try to strike a bargain. Will he trade the codex pages […]

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Massively Overthinking: How much research do you do...

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2024/07/25

On this week’s MOP Podcast, Justin and I discussed our experiences in No Man’s Sky (again), and both of us came to the conclusion that while it’s a gorgeous and content-packed MMO, it’s just not a super intuitive sandbox – meaning that if you’re starting new (or returning after a long time away, as I […]

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Game studio execs weigh in on reasons for the high...

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2024/07/25

This year has been a bloodbath for game developers, with job cuts happening across companies big and small, so that naturally brings up questions – namely, why is game development in the United States so expensive and what can be done about it? These are the questions that a Game Developer piece pondered, as it […]

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Homestead Online is an indie MMO that embraces...

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2024/07/25

An indie MMORPG developer is asking for help to test out a brand-new title that’s still in its early days. This would be Homestead Online, a sandbox title that’s batting around some controversial design elements such as permadeath, consequence-free PvP, and player characters persisting in the game world even when the user logs out of […]

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Final Fantasy XIV shares insight into the singer...

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2024/07/25

It’s hard to miss the fact that the Arcadion raid series in Final Fantasy XIV features bespoke tracks for each of the raid’s four bosses, with an easy standout being the fourth fight’s electrifying “Give it All.” (Yes, the pun there is intentional.) And that wasn’t a coincidence, as it turns out that the song […]

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Activision-Blizzard artists express anxiety and...

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2024/07/25

Like it or not, AI tools are proliferating throughout gamedev, and the human cost is already being showcased. According to reporting from Wired, which sources emails and employee interviews from across the industry – particularly at Activision-Blizzard – the application of AI generative tools in video games is spreading significantly. The report references internal emails […]

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Old School RuneScape share game client update...

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2024/07/25

Jagex is continuing to work on improving the client for Old School RuneScape, though it has been some time since the studio checked in with a progress report. That changed this week as an update post offered some previews of new updates and features that will be applied to the game client sometime in the […]

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Star Trek Online unveils the Heritage Starship Bundle...

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2024/07/25

Look. You knew that when Star Trek Online started toying around with pseudo-ARG puzzles regarding its latest promotion that the end result would be telling you to drink your Ovaltine. The real question was whether or not the new ship bundle being promoted would be worth the tease. And if you thought unique starships from […]

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Sea of Thieves Season 13 adds a world event-sized...

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2024/07/25

Today is the day when Sea of Thieves players can become the world event – and possibly have everyone’s guns trained on them in the process. Season 13 is underway in the piratical sandbox, and its primary feature will let players take over a powerful new ship, thus becoming the boss themselves. The world event […]

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Global Chat: Looking back at 15 years of World of...

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2024/07/25

Fifteen years is a huge chunk of time to devote to both a video game and an ongoing blog covering it, but that’s exactly what Priest with a Cause has done with World of Warcraft. In a retrospective post, the author looks back over this decade-and-a-half to see if it was all worth it. “Since […]

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Working As Intended: The Fridge Poetry game is the...

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2024/07/25

This morning, MOP’s Sam busted into MOP’s work chat with a link to the Fridge Poetry game. “It’s more like an art project than a game, but an interesting multiplayer thing,” he said in his pitch. “Basically a bunch of words spawn and people can move them around to say things.” He’d seen it on […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Everything in an MMORPG is...

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2024/07/25

Today, I want to talk to you about an event that you can no longer participate in within Final Fantasy XIV. It’s an event that ran for more than 25 months before it finally ended, but it did end. It’s called “version 1.0” by the fans, and it launched when the original game servers went […]

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Fortnite has added the Cybertruck to the game, and...

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2024/07/25

If you’re among those players in Fortnite who, for whatever reason, are eager to get behind the wheel of the in-game version of Tesla’s hideous, slipshod, and actively unsafe EV, you might want to keep your head on a swivel because players are apparently going to come for your in-game life. The Cybertruck was added […]

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World of Warcraft’s pre-patch for The War Within...

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2024/07/25

If you look at the pre-expansion patch World of Warcraft delivers ahead of expansions as a dry run of the expansion itself, The War Within’s pre-patch is currently giving a stormy impression. One of the main features of the patch, the shared warbank for your warband (in other words, all of your characters on your […]

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Stars Reach’s Raph Koster: ‘We’re going into space,...

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2024/07/25

Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster is back with yet another batch of Stars Reach game pillars, the driving concepts behind the MMORPG sandbox’s design. We’ve covered the first few sets of pillars already, but this week’s move away from high-minded concepts and dig into the game’s setting and visuals – and how that affects mechanics. First, […]

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LOTRO invites everyone to play Hide-and-Seek on the...

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2024/07/25

If you’re awake and have had your second breakfast already, you might be in time to check out an afternoon stress test for Lord of the Rings Online’s new European server, Mordor. Standing Stone Games invited all players to jump onto the new legendary world today starting at noon eastern for a preview and a […]

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Apex Legends slightly reels back battle pass changes...

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2024/07/25

Respawn Entertainment can now add its name to the dubious list of companies that screwed around and found out in very short order. At the beginning of the month, the studio announced changes to the battle pass of Apex Legends, including adding a new pass in the middle of an ongoing season (instead of a […]

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Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds blows into...

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2024/07/25

Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds — or as I call it, “Festival of the Falling Off Stuff” — is breezing back into the game next week on July 30th as a welcome distraction from the month-long countdown to Janthir Wilds. This annual summer event originally debuted back in 2014 (but in a […]

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The Daily Grind: What sort of time-limited content...

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2024/07/25

Over the years, I have occasionally dunked on Guild Wars 2 for making its story content early on revolve around taking part in continually rolling limited-time events. That was a bad idea. But it was also a fairly new idea, and while I may maintain that it should have been recognized as a bad idea […]

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