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The Stream Team: Growing that ICARUS skill tree

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2024/03/23

Massively OP’s MJ has plans. Many plans. But in ICARUS, those plans are hindered by her lack of progression in the crafting skill tree. And the only way to grow that particular tree is to feed it plenty from grinding oodles of XP from harvesting and building. And what better way to grind than to […]

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World of Warcraft tweaks Plunderstorm balance while...

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2024/03/23

Hey there, World of Warcraft fans! Do you want to talk about Plunderstorm? The developers want to talk about Plunderstorm. Look, we’re talking about Plunderstorm, deal with it. That talk starts with having a big pile of tuning adjustments like making Fire Whirl slower, Explosive Caltrops smaller, and Star Bomb faster. You know, making the […]

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WRUP: You should absolutely do 100% of the things...

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2024/03/23

Open thread for the weekend! Tell us what MMOs you're playing this weekend, and maybe answer the bonus question - this week's is about our bad cooking.

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The Daily Grind: Who’s the most sympathetic or tragic...

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2024/03/23

Usually when we come to a boss in a dungeon, we see it as a plus-sized obstacle that’s between us and advancement and loot. But every once in a while, an MMO gives us a figure who actually comes off as tragic or sympathetic. You might not appreciate that the boss is trying to pound […]

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The Stream Team: Owning my own AdventureQuest 3D house

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2024/03/22

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! That loud squeal of excitement you just heard was Massively OP’s MJ learning that AQ3D’s housing has now arrived! She was all set for her first trip to the museum, but that plan was (obviously) totally tossed out the window. Instead, it’s time to B.U.I.L.D. her own special space and begin decorating to her […]

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Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey gets a publisher but no dates

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2024/03/22

Good news, Chrono Odyssey fans! Or… well, speculative fans. There’s not a game yet to be a fan of; there’s just a promise that there will be a game at one point. But at least it has a publisher in Kakao, so what does that mean? Very little. Well, it means you can’t stand outside […]

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New World’s Season of the Guardian launches April 2,...

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2024/03/22

The delay is over – or it will be in April, anyway – as Amazon has finally announced a new date for New World’s Season of the Guardian. “Season of the Guardian will release on Tuesday, April 2,” the studio posted Friday night. “Thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to resolve […]

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Final Fantasy XIV has officially launched on Xbox...

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2024/03/22

We are sorry to tell you that playing The Most Expensive Version of Final Fantasy XIV does not confer additional benefits on you like being able to freely devour other people’s pets, trumpets whenever you enter the room, or the ability to deck Hildibrand at will. But it will allow you to play on Xbox […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Jagex dinged by UK government,...

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2024/03/22

Do you hear that? It’s the rhythmic tinkling bells of Business Cat’s collar as she merrily skips forth with another round of industry stories within our sphere of interest! O happy day! …look, we’re trying to put icing on this trash cake because if we don’t, the weight of this capitalist hellscape we’re in will […]

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Tencent’s multiplayer zombie survival RPG Undawn...

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2024/03/22

Last June, Tencent introduced the world to Undawn, a mulitplayer survival RPG for PC and mobile that tasked players with trying to make it in a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies. The title was likely most notable for casting Will Smith as an NPC or for having a surprising musical number when we watched a […]

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RIFT holds a server load test as part of new data...

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2024/03/22

This week marks another bit of odd activity in RIFT, which appears to be associated with earlier server merging and server transfers: Gamigo is encouraging players to join in a server load test in order to kick the tires of the MMORPG’s migration to new data centers. Between now and March 29th, NA and EU […]

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The Stream Team: Roaming further into an astrolabe...

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2024/03/22

MOP’s Chris was last seen taking his first exploratory sojourns into an astrolabe forest in Nightingale for Choose My Adventure, and today he’ll be following the Will of the Polls and continuing his journey. Join him live today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for another round of CMA Live! What: Nightingale Who: Chris Neal When: 2:00 […]

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The cast list for Wildcard’s surprise ARK Animated...

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2024/03/22

I don’t know who asked for this, but I’m also not upset about it as this might be the most amusing thing the ARK Survival Evolved/Ascended franchise has produced in years: This week, Studio Wildcard surprise-launched an animated series on Paramount+, in conjunction with an in-game spectacle. “Studio Wildcard today announced the Bob’s ‘Dear Jane’ […]

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Massively on the Go: 10 Mega Pokemon Legends Z-A...

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2024/03/22

We have very little information about Pokemon Legends: Z-A, but one thing for sure is that it can make a big impact on Pokemon Go, especially when it comes to the Mega Evolution teaser. Mega Evolution was incredibly poorly implemented at first but is now bloated with bonuses that are hard to ignore, for good or […]

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Star Citizen outlines the features and functions of...

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2024/03/22

As a space trucker myself, I can tell you having the ability to have my own hangar definitely appeals to me, so the newest video digest all about the feature’s arrival to Star Citizen certainly had my attention, and it likely will for other interstellar cargo haulers out there as well. As the name suggests, […]

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Massively Overthinking: What’s the most polarizing...

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2024/03/22

I was playing Lord of the Rings Online last weekend when my server naturally veered off into one of its favorite discussions: whether Moria sucks. (Honestly, any conversation is better than whether Rings of Power sucks, so I’ll take Moria any day.) The interesting bit is that there never seem to be that many people […]

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NCsoft’s Throne & Liberty has been out in Korea for...

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2024/03/22

Yesterday’s Battle Crush announcement from NCsoft reminded me that we still don’t have any fresh news on the state of Throne and Liberty’s western push, which was at one point supposed to happen a year ago under Amazon’s watch but has been delayed times beyond counting. It hasn’t factored at PAX East, either. The last […]

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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s Plunderstorm is...

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2024/03/22

It would be an exaggeration of the highest order to say that no one was even a little interested when World of Warcraft unveiled its whole Plunderstorm spinoff. Not the fun hyperbolic exaggeration-for-effect sort but just the… inaccurate sort. But it was also definitely not a reveal that had the WoW community doing backflips of […]

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EVE Vanguard’s latest playtest adds a mining laser,...

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2024/03/22

Playtesting for the EVE Vanguard module within EVE Online is continuing once more this weekend, and it’s bringing several new feature updates for those who join in on this next run of the shooter’s mostly public playtest (i.e., this still is only for EVE subscribers). This current build of Vanguard introduces a new combat exosuit […]

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Wandering Wraeclast: Create your own graveyard with...

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2024/03/22

You’ve heard all about Path of Exile 2’s news during Grinding Gear Games’ big development update livestream last night, so now it’s time to dig into Path of Exile’s new league. And dig we will, throughout the entire league! Introducing Necropolis, where you fill a morgue with your conquests, transfer bodies to your special graveyard, […]

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