Yearly Archives: 2016
EverQuest II opens Nights of the Dead on the Stormhold progression server
A holiday event favored by many fans, EverQuest II's Nights of the Dead has begun. And for the very first time, the Time-Locked Expansion...
Lineage II: Revolution cancels beta tests, launch window in question
With all of the current, upcoming, and spin-off Lineage titles out there, you might need a flow chart to keep them all straight in...
Daybreak registers ‘Mythwarden’ domain name
Strange things are afoot over at Daybreak Game Company. Not only is the studio recruiting for an unannounced FPS title, but it has recently registered...
DC Universe Online is capping off Amazon Fury with a deific battle
The end of DC Universe Online's Amazon Fury story is titanic. Ares, the god of war, has betrayed his co-conspirator Hades and teamed up...
League of Legends introduces the Nexus for editorial content
Sometimes, the best way to find out if something has an audience is just to put out what you have and see if people...
CCP outlaws gambling in EVE Online, bans RMT organizations
Changes to EVE Online's EULA coming in November with the launch of Ascension and the free-to-play conversion will effectively outlaw gambling, which has been a...
The Stream Team: Managing SWTOR’s mind-controlled minions in Ziost
While trying to unravel the Emperor's plans in SWTOR last time, Massively OP's MJ rooted out a spy (Larry let him go!). But there is...
Pokemon Go: The Dutch suspend the case against Niantic
Remember back in September when a community in the Netherlands announced it was taking Niantic to court in The Hague because the company had...
Smed adds family inheritance to Hero’s Song’s to-do list
If you missed our live Hero’s Song interview with John Smedley on OPTV, you missed a couple of tantalizing tidbits. One involved family ties...
Seed the world yourself with Chronicles of Elyria’s influence points
Chronicles of Elyria has a long blog post out today, and while this one is unlikely to generate a flurry of confusion like the...
Tamriel Infinium vs Hyperspace Beacon: Three ways to make lockboxes work better in MMORPGs
Last week, I stirred up a hornet’s nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn’t mind them in general.
Hyperspace...
Today’s Black Desert patch brings life to the seas, awakening to the Ranger
Update: And it's live, but it's a trainwreck, so it's down again under emergency maintenance.
Margoria is coming to Black Desert this winter, but in...
SWTOR is ‘refocusing on group content’
Players will be able to start playing Star Wars: The Old Republic's next expansion starting next month, but players have a fair number of...
Gazillion to sunset Marvel Super Hero Squad Online in January 2017
When I first joined the Massively crew back in 2010, the very first long-form piece I did was on Super Hero Squad Online, a Marvel-themed...
Overwatch tops 20 million players in five months of live play
Even if World of Warcraft is back up to 10.1 million subscribers, that's far short of what its studio brother Overwatch has accomplished. The...
Project Genom arrives on Steam early access with new trailer
Open-world sci-fi MMO Project Genom has now joined the Steam early access club, as the game went live on the platform yesterday. In preparation...
Revelation Online’s closed beta begins October 25; here’s the new trailer
Revelation Online announced this morning that its closed beta will kick off on October 25th and run through November 8th. If you've picked up a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most welcoming community you’ve experienced?
There's nothing worse for me when I'm playing an MMORPG than to be in a game where the community is either purely toxic or...
Elite’s test server adds in super-charged jump plumes by mistake
To quote Douglas Adams, space is big. Really big. How in the world are you going to explore all of it, even in a...
LOTRO’s lore dev to talk with the Tolkien Professor
Lord of the Rings Online is nothing if not steeped in a vast body of lore, and the game's main keeper of that knowledge is...