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With release 55 now behind it, Portalarium is focused on the future of Shroud of the Avatar. Specifically, that means episode 2, which is...

Ever since Trion Worlds announced that it had snapped up all of the remaining assets from Gazillion and Marvel Heroes, we have wondered what...

Throughout most of EVE Online's lifetime, players have developed their own third-party applications (and yes, spreadsheets) to help organise and enhance their gameplay. We've...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Kickstarter MMO crowd held its breath to find out whether or not Camelot Unchained would indeed make its...

Today is Pokemon Go's second-year anniversary. Last year's report card had to grapple with things like the game's rapid rise and fall as a fad,...

The international community is becoming aware of the problems of lootboxes, and that means that laws are being formed in response to the business...

This week in MMO crowdfunding is one of the biggest ever for this little subgenre, make no mistake. TemTem is about to fund. Fractured's Kickstarter...

By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...

There's exciting news for the 20-year-old Ultima Online this week, as the game's latest newsletter announced an account-wide bank storage system. "Between Publish 100 and...

While we reported in December 2017 that Broadsword was aiming for a free-to-play option for Dark Age of Camelot, we haven't seen a lot...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained is in the home stretch before open beta. Yes, really, open beta. This is happening, people! Clear...

Outpost Games sent round a mailer this week announcing that SOS Battle Royale is now "free to play forever," thanks to its latest patch,...

At the beginning of June, PWE announced big changes for Champions Online: It was planning to drop the game's optional monthly subscription in favor...

Devoid of further context, the phrase "Omega Discount" sounds vaguely threatening. It's the last discount? No, it's a discount on the price of picking...

Naoki Yoshida of Final Fantasy XIV fame was at this year's E3, and that means interviews with the man himself. One of those interviews...

Apparently, GDC was good to Funcom, The Bearded Ladies, and Mutant: Year Zero. The teams had originally thought to skip E3 this year, but...

Someone at CCP Games is obviously having quite a lot of fun with the latest EVE Online skin bundle. The bundle of skins for...

GDC 2018 back in March was good to Defiance 2050, at least in terms of making people aware of the goals of the game....

The mobile version of ARK: Survival Evolved is officially out and live for your mobile devices - both iOS and Android - as of today....

If you somehow missed the Morrowind chapter of the MMORPG we named game of the year in 2018, then this sale is most definitely...