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Final Fantasy XI celebrates the approach of spring with various player boosts
The upcoming Spring Cometh campaign in Final Fantasy XI will not make your character run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. It will, however,...
Sega plans to raise the salaries of its Japanese workforce starting in July, but they still fall short of national averages
At first blush, there's some good news coming out of Sega for its Japanese workforce, as the company announced plans to raise pay rates...
Amazon Games will publish NCsoft’s Throne & Liberty in the Americas, Europe, and Japan
The rumors were true: Amazon Games is publishing NCsoft's Throne and Liberty in the west. The companies announced the partnership early this morning.
"Amazon Games...
Crossplatform multiplayer monster-hunting game Wild Hearts is live today
Electronic Arts officially leaps into the beast-hunting genre today with the release of KOEI TECMO's and Omega Force's Wild Hearts, live now on Steam,...
Wisdom of Nym: Where else could we get a Final Fantasy XIV raid series from the franchise?
Let me start this particular column with an observation that should really accompany any and all discussion of future raid series for Final Fantasy...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
Blue Protocol once again delays its upcoming Japanese network test to sometime in late March
For those who were looking forward to Blue Protocol making its next step forward in Japan (and by extension moving closer to its late...
Fans are reviving – and localizing – the long-shuttered Dragon’s Dogma MMO from Japan
Most people likely only know about Dragon's Dogma as the source of a rad song that's been featured in memes. Few folks probably know...
Blue Protocol delays Japanese test event a few weeks over unspecified bug
If you were lucky enough to be in the Japanese network test for Blue Protocol this weekend, well, no you're not. That's because Bandai...
Level 5’s Fantasy Life Online is shutting down for good next month
It's been a short, weird, and depressing trip for Level 5's Fantasy Life Online. The colorful mobile MMORPG launched in Japan in 2018 on...
Blue Protocol shares details about monetization, cross-play, and game features
As the hype builds for next year's launch of Blue Protocol, so is the amount of information we're learning about Bandai Namco's MMORPG import....
The Game Archaeologist: Wizardry Online, the short-lived permadeath MMO
While the Wizardry series may not have the cultural cache that Ultima or Final Fantasy ended up with, nevertheless the dungeon crawling RPG series...
Blue Protocol will be published by Smilegate in South Korea
After an exceedingly long wait for any information about the game, Blue Protocol fans are finally getting some solid information about the game in...
Blue Protocol confirms an early spring launch in Japan, schedules an announcement at the Game Awards
The beginning of this month saw Blue Protocol rise from its presumed grave, confirming that work is still ongoing and announcing plans for a...
Diablo Immortal merged a ton of servers with today’s update
How well is Diablo Immortal doing right now? Well, we've had a couple of clues: Its global launch in June wasn't enough to rescue...
Blue Protocol readies for another network test in Japan ‘in preparation for release’
Last week we finally heard word from Bandai Namco that Blue Protocol was indeed alive and developing after a worryingly long span of silence....
Tree of Savior M arrives to South Korea November 2, Re: Tree of Savior cans global aspirations
This is a story of two mobile versions of the MMOARPG Tree of Savior - Tree of Savior M and Re: Tree of Savior,...
Fractured Online disables new purchases for players in Asian countries, posts new survey
Players who want to play Fractured Online but live in Japan are going to have a harder time at this point, as Dynamight Studios...
Wisdom of Nym: Looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV’s imminent patch 6.25
Well, that was... sooner than I expected! I had honestly been expecting patch 6.25 to be further out than... well, next week, but here...
Final Fantasy XIV confirms Patch 6.25 for October 18, Fan Festival’s return in July 2023
The Live Letter from Final Fantasy XIV was already planning to have lots of information about what's next for adventurers in Eorzea, and it...
