Black Desert is launching a battle royale mode called Shadow Arena as part of a year focused on systems clarity
Pearl Abyss spent 2018 busy busy busy with its projects, among them Black Desert. To sum all that up and tease the future, Executive...
Co-op ARPG Breach hits early access January 17, with packages live now
Co-op ARPG Breach was meant to hit early access before the end of 2018, and as it turns out, it'll be only a few...
Closers Online’s fearsome foes add another to their number with Nitocris Rises
It's typical to be excited when a new class or playable character is added to an MMO, but what about when a big boss...
Star Trek Online introduces account-based progression for its 9th anniversary
Stuck at the max level without anything meaningful to do in the notoriously slow-to-update Star Trek Online? Cryptic is introducing a whole new account-wide...
TERA releases the Valkyrie class on console, opens the Demon’s Wheel dungeon
Not content to wait around to ferry the fallen to Valhalla, the Valkyrie has arrived in TERA's console version today. bringing players a new,...
Ashes of Creation introduces new community manager, promising better communication
The whole Ashes of Creation issue with the game's website and forums involved no small number of people pointing out that Intrepid Studios is...
The best Massively OP MMO community polls of 2018
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don’t often get from our other articles - at least when they aren’t being brigaded...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.5, A Requiem for Heroes, is live today
The conclusion of Final Fantasy XIV's expansion story starts today with the launch of patch 4.5, A Requiem for Heroes. Players can log in...
Overwatch releases a new short story and confirms that yes, Soldier 76 is gay
Poor Ana, she got a bit short-sold on her own short story. Yes, Overwatch's healing sniper gets her own bit of short fiction, but...
Superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off group combat and shopping
Ship of Heroes just keeps on churning out the content videos! This week's entry in Heroic Games' long list of previews (26 videos and...
Craig Zinkievich’s Aliens shooter is looking more and more like an MMOFPS after all
A couple of years ago, several key devs who once built MMOs for Cryptic - Craig Zinkievich, Shannon Posniewski, and Matt Highison - announced...
Shroud of the Avatar offers free respecs, answers community queries
While Shroud of the Avatar isn't the most hardcore of MMOs out there, it certainly is a challenging beast to wrangle without the full...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Trulion, Morna Tales, Laplace M, Project BBQ, Genesis, Endless Battle, Achaea, Lord of Chains, Star Sonata
We have a perilously tall pile of MMOs (and MUDs and MOBAs and such) that you've probably never heard of for today's roundup. We're gonna just jump right in, starting with Trulion Online, a new open-world sandbox MMORPG that just hit beta on Android. Yes, it's a mobile title with retro graphics, but not all of what we're looking at today falls into that category!
Star Conflict’s Rise of Giants update introduces new PvE campaign, reworks PvE mission structure
The latest update to Gaijin Entertainment's free-to-play spaceship battle game Star Conflict is live, and it's brought with it a slew of new PvE...
Revisions to Japanese law make console and save data modding illegal
Japan's Association of Copyright for Computer Software is going after console modders in some recent revisions to the country's Unfair Competition Prevention Law. According...
RuneScape has thoroughly revamped mining and smithing just in time for its 18th birthday
You might think that an 18-year-old MMO wouldn't keep needing to tweak basic skills like mining and smithing, but in the case of RuneScape,...
You’re never too old for esports, Swedish competitive team with an average age of 67 suggests
MMO players often joke about wanting to make sure the retirement homes of the future have decent internet to facilitate our MMO playing in...
Anthem shows off a full mission in a new video
If you're still relying on secondhand glances at Anthem to figure out if the game is something you'd like to play, here's a big eyeful...
RIFT solicits player feedback for a daily calendar reward revamp
Does the daily reward calendar in RIFT feel a bit outdated to you? Obvious date-related puns aside, the developers still on the team feel as...
Here’s what’s up with Ashes of Creation’s borked forums and website
Let's recap on what's going on with Ashes of Creation, shall we? Just ahead of the holidays, Intrepid rolled out Apocalypse, its battle royale...
