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Battle Bards Episode 194: No Man’s Sky
No Man’s Sky is a Cinderella story, a turnaround from a project that failed on its promises to exceeding them. But what about its...
Ashes of Creation addresses extra player questions on music, election systems, and more
Much as they did last time, the devs of Ashes of Creation saw fit to round up every single question that players have asked...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Elethor, Astonia, Guardians of Cloudia, Lands of Kehliel
Let's take a peek through some MMOs you've never heard of or have totally forgotten about. The tinier and more obscure, the better, we...
The Repopulation team recreated over 1100 pieces of furniture from earlier builds
Let's be honest, it's never a good sign that I forget about an MMO until I see a developer tweet about it, but in...
CS:GO reboots F2P business model, tucking far more behind the paywall
Valve set off a dramabomb last night with its announcement that CounterStrike: Global Offensive would be dramatically changing its business model. The company essentially...
Neverwinter’s new Bard is accompanied by a massive level squish from 80 to 20
Earlier this week, Neverwinter announced that it was working on a brand-new class, its first since 2016: the Bard, described as a "stylish fighter...
Massively Overthinking: Do you associate music with memory in MMOs?
The other night, I tried to log in to the Star Wars Galaxies emu and the music hit me hard. See, I play SWG...
MMO Business Roundup: Chicken Drumstick, 9000 zombies, Valorant Mobile, Pantheon hiring, Secret World’s novels
Welcome back to our semi-regular roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news.
Chicken Drumstick: Yes, I'm afraid this is a real thing. Vice's Motherboard...
Book of Travels shares a preview of its tiny Omin spirits
The entire idea of Book of Travels is roaming a wide world, which would certainly leave some to look at wide vistas and potentially...
The Wagadu Chronicles recaps progress on biomes, UI, and tabletop RPG
Have you been keeping up with what's happening in The Wagadu Chronicles' development? No? Well that's OK because the devs at Twin Drums have...
Superhero MMO City of Titans teases player housing and team base decorating
If you'd forgotten that City of Titans was planning to offer housing at some point, well, so had I, but we can be forgiven...
Massively Overthinking: How important is gear in your core MMO?
This week's Overthinking comes to us courtesy of a rant on the MMORPG subreddit, which... well don't judge it by the title, OK? Author...
EVE Online teams up with the University of Iceland to offer an online course about digital friendship
EVE Online is an MMO that has traditionally struggled to reconcile its massive player-led charity efforts and citizen science initiatives with extreme playerbase toxicity...
New World ‘won’t consider selling anything other than cosmetic items until 2022 at the earliest’
Amazon's New World was the subject of much debate this month when a leaker exposed the state of the game's cash shop in the...
TitanReach shows off pets, discusses programming, previews new props and the Glimmermoore area
Once again the folks behind TitanReach are just itching to showcase all of the work they've been doing for their developing MMORPG. As with...
Neverwinter brings back the mechanized crafting of the Wonders of Gond event on May 27
If (for whatever reason) you have global chat on in Neverwinter and you start seeing players shouting for grommets, gears, and doohickeys, it's not...
Global Chat: Feasting on Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga
Nerdy Bookahs is pretty dang delighted to come back to a "feast" in Guild Wars 2, thanks to all of the new content in...
Battle Bards Episode 193: Tribal jams
Strike up a drum, flourish a flute, and howl to the moon — it’s time to get funky with some tribal jams! In this...
No Man’s Sky’s most recent Expedition includes a claimable Normandy SR1 from Mass Effect
In the middle of May, No Man's Sky launched the Beachhead Expedition, which players will recall is part of the new multiplayer-focused Expeditions mode...
Massively Overthinking: How much should MMO subs be in 2021?
MMORPG blogger Wilhelm at The Ancient Gaming Noob has a fantastic piece up this month on the traditional $15 MMO subscription. He dips back...
