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• The Daily Grind: Have you been playing the Champions Online free weekend?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  It was certainly a nice surprise when we found out that Champions Online was going to run another free weekend over the Thanksgiving holiday . Not the biggest news, certainly, but nice in a "finding two dollars in your wallet that you didnt know you had" sort of way. And of course, there are always people who ...
  3 hours ago

• The Daily Grind: Do you like holiday events?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Weve only been done with Halloween for about a month, and we just finished Thanksgiving . Theres still some other holiday coming up this year, followed by New Years Day , followed by Valentines Day , and so on and so forth. And all of these holidays are usually accompanied by events in the middle of your game ...
  2 days ago

• The Daily Grind: Thanksgiving eating binge edition

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Everyone during Thanksgiving Day asks you what youre thankful for. Its a logical if somewhat bland question, given the nature of the holiday. But today, we here at Massively would like to celebrate something equally integral to the holiday -- stuffing yourself until you can no longer move under your own power . ...
  3 days ago

• The Daily Grind: Ive been meaning to tell you...

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Humor Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day if youre in the United States, which makes it special. (If you live in the rest of the world, tomorrow is Thursday and not particularly special, but bear with us.) Its the start of a season devoted to good feelings and ...
  4 days ago

• The Daily Grind: How easy is too easy?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Difficulty in games is a contentious issue at any point. Brian "Psychochild" Green recently had a musing on the topic of difficulty as it applies to most games , but even that discussion stops shy of discussing MMOs, where multiple difficulty levels are rarely an option. Designers can make harder events, but if ...
  5 days ago

• The Daily Grind: How do you juggle multiple games?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  So youre jumping back into playing your favorite character on, say, Champions Online , and you press the button that youre pretty sure is bound to your energy-building power. Its only a minute later as you stare at an empty gauge and watch your health slowly disintegrate that you realize you hit the button bound to ...
  6 days ago

• The Daily Grind: What features would you like to see combined?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Some things dont go well together. Like peanut butter and soap, or open PvP in a neutral quest hub, or melee attacks for a spellcaster. On the other hand, there are some things that seem as if theyd go together so perfectly that its a wonder it hasnt already been put into place. Final Fantasy XI s multiple jobs ...
  1 week ago

• (TDG) TransDigm Group Incorporated Beats Estimates

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 164
  TransDigm Group Incorporated ( TDG ) reported fourth quarter 2009 earnings per share of 82 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 80 cents. Net sales for the quarter rose 4.3% to $197.4 million from $189.2 million in the comparable year-ago quarter. The favorable contribution from acquisitions was partially ...
  1 week ago

• The Daily Grind: How do you like your references?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind , Humor We gamers do love our nods to other media. From the earliest days of gaming and software, the easter egg has been a staple, something hidden without mention in the recesses of code. These days, were as likely as not to have entire areas devoted to a ...
  1 week ago

• Dan Loebs Third Point Starts New Stakes In Popular (BPOP), TransDigm (TDG), & Health Net (HNT)

  
  market folly — Authority: 604
  This is the third quarter 2009 edition of our hedge fund portfolio tracking series. If youre unfamiliar with tracking hedge fund movements or SEC filings, check out our series preface on hedge fund 13F filings . Next up in our series is Dan Loebs Third Point LLC. Third Point is a multi-billion dollar hedge fund ...
  1 week ago

• The Daily Grind: What part has stayed the same?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Culture , Opinion , The Daily Grind MMOs change. A lot, in fact. There are always new updates or new developments , always something thats being improved or altered, added or removed, whatever. But even with all of that, there are certain things that dont change after all. If youve been ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: Your thoughts on Blizzards new pets

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Business models , Opinion , The Daily Grind In a move some expected and others didnt, Blizzard decided to remove that last layer insulating its game from the practice of RMT: real money transactions. Previously, players had to purchase the trading card game to get the special extra pets for ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: Whats the threshold for an MMO?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  This question is an old one, but its always one that brings out some interesting opinions. As technology becomes more and more connected, people continue to move their games into connectivity further and further, we have to ask -- whats an MMO, precisely? The recent release of Borderlands has brought the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: What news makes you excited and happy about a game?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Well freely admit that yesterdays Daily Grind was a bit... how should we say it... pessimistic. Certainly MMOs and their associated industry arent always sunshine and light, and wed never pretend that they are, but that doesnt mean we cant occasionally perk things up a little bit. So today, were shifting to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: What kills your confidence in a game before you play it?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  There are elements of games that are turn-offs for all of us. Some of us love PvP, for example, and a world with virtually none of it isnt very appealing. But sometimes we dont event start playing the game before our feelings about it go straight into the dumpster. Its hard to argue that Tabula Rasa s frequent ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: Whats your favorite non-MMO genre?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Long before we had the soaring crafts and grand interstellar vistas of EVE Online , most games that involved spaceships were of a very set type. They usually involved one small ship, a horde of other ships, bullets flying everywhere, and a number of lives that were expressly designed to eat up as many quarters as ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: Happy Halloween!

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Opinion , The Daily Grind While not everyone in the world celebrates it, today is Halloween for many of us! Time for tricks and treats, spooks and silliness. Its also a fantastic time to catch up on the holiday events in our favorite games. From going after the Sinister Squashling in World of ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: Where else do your MMO skills come in handy?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Those of us that have been playing MMOs for quite some time have probably developed more than a few skills in the process. Its pretty much inevitable, after all -- while you might not be able to learn to dance from a boss fight , you can at least get a good sense of how to move and work as a group, just by way of ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: What game do you watch the most, but dont currently play?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Filed under: Opinion , The Daily Grind Sometimes we all take a break from an MMO, even if were still enjoying parts of it. Other times, were deciding on a purchase or wondering whether or not to come back, and it requires a lot of observation and research. It can be hard to know if its time to come back to an ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Daily Grind: Getting Torchlight?

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  Today is the launch of Runic Games Torchlight , although you probably know them best as the guys who worked on Mythos . The MMO version of Torchlight isnt out for another 18 months or so, but you can get a taste of it as of today, which is of course the games release date -- imagine that! Not only is the game ...
  4 weeks ago

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