Vague Patch Notes: On fans and fanboys in MMORPGs
When you play Final Fantasy XIV, you are going to be stuck playing one of an assortment of jobs, with no actual customization to distinguish...
Albion Online is once again under sustained DDOS attacks
Albion Online is no stranger to DDOS attacks, MMO players will recall. When it formally launched in 2017, it fended off weeks of DDOS...
No, Elite enemies in World of Warcraft: Classic are not dealing too little damage
Remember how back in the earlier days of World of Warcraft every Elite was a vicious murder machine, leading to Bloodborne-esque dances of nearly dying every...
Final Fantasy XIV challenges fans to hunt for irregular tomestones with the Moogle Treasure Trove
Do you want to do random older content in Final Fantasy XIV to earn a grab bag of odd rewards for familiar content or...
The Daily Grind: What could your favorite MMO do to attract new players?
Every MMO wants more people to play it. That's kind of the nature of the thing. While no one working on Secret World Legends is...
Rogue Server Roundup: Toontown Rewritten, Chronicles of Spellborn, and SWG Legends
Emulators, pshards, rogue servers: Whatever you want to call them, they're buzzing with confidence right now. I mean, we legit got a properly formatted...
Desert Oasis: In praise of the charmingly chaotic Black Desert community
One of my favorite dishes is dinuguan (dinu-goo-ahn). It's a pork dish covered in a sauce with the consistency of curry and the dark...
Overwatch third anniversary is live with new skins, free-play weekend, and new match modes
Overwatch's third anniversary is upon us, and you know what that means: a whole bunch of inappropriate or weird skins for your favorite heroes,...
PlanetSide 2 focuses on optimization and celebrates PlanetSide 1’s 16th birthday
You know what makes me feel better about an MMO, especially an MMO in a franchise that's been kicked around a bit and seen...
Entropia Universe players invested the equivalent of $500,000 to own a space station
Virtual world MMO Entropia Universe is no stranger to bizarre news stories. We've covered investors divvying up the moon, selling unique weapons for over...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite ‘vanilla’ MMO memory?
With all the talk and testing swirling about World of Warcraft Classic this past week, the full nostalgia gates have reopened and a flood...
FromSoftware’s next game is rumored to be an ‘open-world title’ made in collaboration with George R.R. Martin
Although the Game of Thrones TV series has just reached its controversial conclusion, series author George R.R. Martin is still (hopefully) hard at work...
Buying too many games in the Epic Games Store could see your account locked down
You just can't make up stuff like this, friends: It turns out that doing something silly like taking advantage of sales in the Epic...
City of Heroes: All the public servers we know of, plus Reddit’s launch and Homecoming’s name release
A new City of Heroes rogue server has joined the chat: Specifically, it's the Reddit-backed server, and it's called Pleiades. It went live at...
Choose My Adventure: My story begins to twist in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Who would have thought that two planets would bring change? I was wholly expecting some generally insular stories from Nar Shaddaa and Balmorra as...
The pieces needed to build a WildStar emulator have been posted online
Have any of you seen the movie Contact? It's a sci-fi film about an alien radio transmission that contains instructions to build an interstellar...
Dota 2 paywalls its Avoid Player feature by including it with its Battle Pass
The nature of the beast in team-based competitive games is this awful notion that frustration with how a match plays out gives one carte...
World of Warcraft Classic preps for first major stress test tomorrow
The gates are about to come down on the World of Warcraft Classic test, as Blizzard reminded players last night that it'll be temporarily...
Overwatch kicks off its third anniversary celebration on May 21
It's almost time for another Overwatch anniversary celebration after a year of new heroes, new maps, and about five minutes of forward motion in the...
Apex Legends’ latest patch is all about sounds and hit detection
Is Apex Legends just too darn loud? The game's next patch is out today, and one of the things that it's doing is just turning...
