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The Daily Grind: What other MMOs need the ‘Archeage Unchained’ treatment?
Last year, it seemed like the trend was legacy servers for everyone. This year, the anti-pay-to-win push has been big, with ArcheAge Unchained at...
Massively Overthinking: Niche MMOs vs. everythingboxes
Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a...
Halloween approaches for RIFT, Skyforge, Destiny 2, ARK, and Dauntless
We'll have our complete guide to Halloween across the MMO universe early next week, but we would be remiss not to mention some big...
RuneScape’s new Executive Producer talks monetization as Halloween arrives to Old School
It's a transition week for RuneScape as Jagex has appointed a new Executive Producer for the game: Ryan "Mod Warden" Ward. It's a comfort,...
Pearl Abyss preps standalone Shadow Arena battle royale plucked from Black Desert
Remember Shadow Arena, Black Desert's short-lived PvP battle royale mode? It was announced just before 2019, released a few weeks later, and immediately devolved...
EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile EVE Echoes enters beta in December
EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is swooping past its summer alpha into a winter beta, according to an announcement from CCP Games and NetEase...
The Fallout 76 community is storming over the Fallout 1st sub
Yesterday's announcement that Fallout 76 is getting a "Fallout 1st" subscription plan that locks private world ownership behind a paywall and grants very Elder...
Torchlight Frontiers is adding customizable robot heads according to roadmap update
Here's the thing: If you're playing Torchlight Frontiers' alpha, you're playing a robot. There's no reason not to play a robot. And according to...
Bless Unleashed devs say they’ve ‘drastically reworked the entire crafting system’
As Neowiz and Bandai Namco march onward toward the open beta of Bless Unleashed in November, the teams have once again penned a dev...
Trove’s Halloween events begin on PC and console as Shadow’s Eve arrives
If you thought the voxel sandbox Trove couldn't possibly get weirder than it normally is, then you've clearly never seen it during the Halloween...
Elite Dangerous delays fleet carriers to 2020 in favor of multiple clean-up patches
Frontier hasn't had the best year when it comes to Elite Dangerous. After a line of patches that were plagued with many issues, notable...
Fallout 1st is a new Fallout 76 sub that locks private world ownership behind a paywall
"Do you think all these developers got together and were like, 'October 2019. That's the month we are all going to collectively sh*t the...
Space colony MMO SEED announces ‘Pioneers’ alpha coming in 2020
With SpatialOS titles bailing out of the genre left and right, it falls to games like Seed - now being marketed as SEED -...
Guild Wars 2 addresses build templates and third-party programs in light of ‘collected feedback’
Ever since ArenaNet's announcement that it's finally adding proper build templates to Guild Wars 2, the community, or at least the highly online and...
ArcheAge Unchained permabans 200+ accounts over ArchePass mission exploits
If you were among the gamers protesting exploits in ArcheAge Unchained - or the ArchePass in general - then know that Gamigo has now...
MMO sandbox Boundless patches in new build items, teases Halloween
Fresh off its first birthday, Square-Enix backed voxel interplanetary survival-crafting MMO Boundless is already pushing on with more updates. Builders and hoarders are going...
SuperData September 2019: WoW Classic’s surge is over, Fortnite sees worst month since 2017
SuperData's September 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is out today, and unlike reports a lot of months, this one's got...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s Onslaught expansion is now live with its launch trailer
First announced in April and delayed until October, Star Wars The Old Republic's Onslaught expansion is finally launching this afternoon. As we've been covering...
Leaderboard: Will Blizzard announce Overwatch 2 at BlizzCon?
Among the many rumors being kicked around about BlizzCon is the rumor that the company is gearing up to announce a sequel to its...
Funcom’s Secret World-inspired Moons of Madness horror game has officially launched
It's Halloween time, folks, and you know what that means: It's time for a standalone Funcom game with a horror angle, preferably with a...