New World plans a three-week fresh-start crossplay event when Aeternum launches
Amazon is pulling out all the stops on its New World Aeternum launch on October 15th. Last night, the studio partially detailed its plans...
Throne & Liberty addresses ongoing errors, disconnections, and invisible characters
As Throne and Liberty approaches its first full weekend as a free-to-play MMORPG, Amazon and NCsoft have issued a letter to the community, saying...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest personal challenge you’ve set for yourself in an MMO?
A few weeks back, I saw a post on Reddit about an MMO player who had decided to set himself a bizarre project: to...
Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
Final Fantasy XIV gets Moo Deng fever as prices for a hippo minion start to climb
The internet is full of flash-in-the-pan moments when a completely innocuous thing suddenly becomes a viral sensation. So it is with a baby pygmy...
Final Fantasy XIV suspends housing demolition on NA servers in response to Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene hit the United States pretty hard, if you've somehow missed hearing about it. The Final Fantasy XIV team wants to make sure...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best level up effects?
It'd be nice if real life worked like an MMO in terms of getting a shine and a burst of light the moment you...
Skyforge delays timeline for data and launcher hand-off to Music Guru and Innova
A month ago, we were a bit stunned to learn that MMORPG Skyforge had changed hands, moving from MY.GAMES to a US-based company called...
The Stream Team: Let’s dive into the newly launched Throne and Liberty
It's time for MOP's Chris to hop into Throne and Liberty for real this time! He's had some time to get to just about...
Throne & Liberty adds 41 new servers to handle global launch pops, peaking at 326K Steam players so far
Welp, we knew that Throne and Liberty was going to see a big blast of players when it switched from its paid headstart to...
The Daily Grind: What are the advantages of playing MMOs as a hobby?
Have you ever had to explain or defend your hobby to someone who doesn't share that? Sometimes that can be a positive experience with...
The Stream Team: Pondering post-poo and politics plans in Guild Wars 2
After a night of poo and politics, Massively OP's MJ wonders what exactly is the next step in Guild Wars 2's story. What are...
City of Heroes Homecoming is about to release 1.6M character names – here’s how to save yours
The legally licensed City of Heroes Homecoming team has released an update today, though it's not entirely the content kind. The most important part...
Puzzle MMO Islands of Insight will sunset at the end of October – here’s how to keep playing offline
Back in July, we learned the sad news that Behaviour Interactive's puzzle MMO Islands of Insight, which had only just fully launched in February,...
Choose My Adventure: The progression conflict in Once Human
I don't want to claim that I necessarily hit a wall with my time in Once Human during my playtime for Choose My Adventure...
City of Titans’ primary city designer has passed away from cancer
We've heard some sad news out of Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans: Its chief city designer has passed away. Missing Worlds Media posted...
The Daily Grind: Does quality or economic pressure matter more when you’re spending in MMOs?
During a recent investor call, NetEase made an interesting statement about gamers' spending habits that I wanted to pluck out and discuss. The question...
Prices and probabilities for Once Human’s latest lockbox ‘event’ prompt calls for a player boycott
Last week saw survival shooter Once Human put forth its latest update, which Starry Studio said was chiefly focused on the addition of a...
The Daily Grind: How many actions do you want to juggle at a time in an MMORPG?
Back in August, Heartless Gamer penned a blog about his "rule of 10." Here's how he defines it:
"s a player, I can manage 10...
The Stream Team: Let’s talk Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 7.1 update
It's time once more for MOP's Chris and his crew to come together on a comfy digital couch and talk Final Fantasy XIV! Specifically,...
