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Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.15 goes live with hippo carts, custom deliveries, and quests
Who wants to go screaming around Thavnair on hippo-drawn carriages? The answer to that question is "the Arkasodara," but if you instinctively answered that...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Diablo Immortal on PC
There was a time when the release of a new Diablo game might have been a big deal for me. But I've never been...
WoW Factor: What was the point of Shadowlands?
Do I have another column or two in me about World of Warcraft: Dragonflight? I mean, probably, even though we clearly have a long,...
Vague Patch Notes: Mobile MMOs, free-to-play MMOs, and the path of microtransactions
When I first started playing Magic: the Gathering, Revised was the new hotness and I got used to the idea that Serra Angel was...
Diablo Immortal launches on mobile and PC today with hellacious microtransactions
The newest entry in Blizzard's long-running Diablo series was couched in controversy literally from the first minutes that it was announced. Now, with Diablo...
Tamriel Infinium: The Elder Scrolls Online’s High Isle brings new story, new lands, and a new card game to Tamriel
It’s spring. The birds are chirping, the pollen is flying, and a young person’s thoughts turn to another major chapter release for The Elder...
World of Warcraft wraps up Shadowlands with today’s patch 9.2.5 and faction crossplay
As World of Warcraft increasingly turns its attention to Dragonflight, Shadowlands' days are coming to a close. With the arrival of today's mid-sized Patch...
MGI & Gamigo Q1 2022: Atlas Rogues is dead
I'm sorry to report this morning that Gamigo is sunsetting Atlas Rogues. The news came on Memorial Day when nobody in the US was...
Belgium and Netherlands reject Diablo Immortal over lockbox gambling concerns
This week's "global launch" of Diablo Immortal already wasn't going to be that global considering that several southeast Asia countries will have to wait...
Artist shares character creation screens from Daybreak’s nixed Marvel superhero MMO
It's very likely that the news of EG7 pulling the plug on Daybreak's in-development Marvel MMORPG didn't hit you very hard, considering that we...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 helpful tips to improve your LOTRO experience
Recently, my 12-year-old daughter began playing Lord of the Rings Online for the first time after having watched the movies and read The Hobbit....
Perfect Ten: 10 great ways to lose new players from your MMO
MMOs require new blood. Not exclusively or anything; you can keep an MMO going for quite some time on existing happy players. But existing...
EG7 Q1 2022 financials: EG7 has canceled Daybreak’s Marvel MMORPG
Remember earlier this month when NetEase announced that Jack Emmert was heading up a new NetEase studio called Jackalope Games, meaning that he was...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s restored living world S1E2 Sky Pirates
Ready for another trip down Guild Wars 2's memory lane, or, perhaps, to experience more of the game's long-lost stories for the first time?...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring the bounds of Yondershire
As I write this, I'm coming down off of the buzz that was Lord of the Rings Online's 15th anniversary. All in all, I...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online has a real enthusiasm problem
Looking around the MMORPG community, you may not even be aware that Elder Scrolls Online has less than a month until its newest expansion,...
Not So Massively: First impressions of V Rising, launching into early access today
I'm still searching for a survival game that fits me. I enjoy a lot of the survival experience, but the games as a whole...
Fight or Kite: New World’s PvP is a failure for casual gamers
It's been a little over half a year since New World officially launched, and in that time we’ve seen a fair number of changes...
EVE Fanfest 2022: CCP delivered free food to EVE Online players waylaid by the Fanfest COVID outbreak
It's been over a week since EVE Online players from around the world met up in Reyjkavik, Iceland, for EVE Fanfest 2022, the first...
WoW Factor: Excitement and trepidation about World of Warcraft bringing back talent trees
So you probably don't need me to tell you at this point that I'm looking forward to having talent trees back in World of...