Myth of Empires’ second season arrives August 16 with better beast lords and siege weaponry
Angela Game is full-speed ahead on its survivalbox MMO Myth of Empires: It's just put a date on the game's second season servers. Specifically,...
This is not a drill: Star Citizen ship interiors can catch fire in alpha 4.0
There are more than a few things that can go wrong while piloting a spaceship in Star Citizen, but when alpha 4.0 drops, players...
RuneScape examines the design principles behind its upcoming Group Ironman content
For those of you who do not play RuneScape and thus are unfamiliar with the game's Ironman rules, it's important to explain that it...
Old School RuneScape will take a hard stance against ‘deathmatching’ in its rules August 15
Old School RuneScape has often been used as fertile soil for RMT shenanigans, particularly in the case of its duel arena feature, which was...
Nightingale’s massive Realms Rebuilt update offers a crafting progression and structure revamp
Nightingale has drifted a bit out of the gaming consciousness since its early access launch earlier this year, but Tencent's Inflexion apparently means to...
RIFT opens its test server once more but doesn’t disclose what players will be testing
Good news, RIFT fans! After recent months when most of the news about the game has been about merges and transfers, the game's test...
MMO Business Roundup: Bandai Namco’s Q1 2025, My Games’ publishing arm, Tencent at Gamescom
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And much like yesterday's digest, we begin with some quarterly financials! Woo!
Bandai Namco:...
Warframe’s August 21 Lotus Eaters update sets the narrative table for Warframe 1999’s winter arrival
Are you excited to go back in time to Warframe 1999? Then you're going to want to fire up the game on Wednesday, August...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster on MMO trust, fear, and freedom: ‘We understand how nervous players are about griefing’
Regular MOP readers know that our commenters have already spilled a lot of ink about Raph Koster's in-development MMORPG Stars Reach - and he's...
Guild Wars 2 makes a lot of spear adjustments prior to Janthir Wilds
The spear was once described as the "king of the medieval battlefield," which makes its omission from many fantasy MMOs puzzling. This won't be...
Final Fantasy XI prepares new Ambuscade encounters for its next patch on August 13
It's very important for you to make morbols feel good about themselves. Sure, Final Fantasy XI's incarnations are among the more toothsome and tentacular...
SMITE 2 introduces a new character as part of its upcoming 24/7 closed alpha beginning August 27
SMITE 2 has been running closed alpha tests a few times already, but those were happening only during weekends. That's about to change in...
Throne & Liberty KR adjusts item drops for its rune socketing system to reduce grind
A couple of weeks ago, the Korean version of Throne & Liberty got a significant update that applied multiple changes to the MMORPG, among...
EverQuest II GU 126 Immeasurable Menagerie hits open beta August 13
EverQuest II's GU 126 update is hitting the beta test server next week, and while at first I wondered whether it was named after...
PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil hits closed beta in September following NA closed alpha this week
We've been keeping a couple of eyeballs on PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil as it's moved through alpha playtesting over the last year...
Lost Ark’s style book and planned Echidna raid nerfs won’t make it into next week’s patch
Just a week after its summer-to-fall roadmap dropped, Amazon is tweaking Lost Ark's plans a pinch. The studio says that most of the content...
Dune Awakening promises ‘gameplay flowing like spice’ at its Gamescom 2024 appearance
It was probably pretty easy to assume that Dune: Awakening was holding back on any major reveals until the next big gaming event, and...
Allods Online sees a spike of Steam activity as 15.0 update promises a new area and class tweaks
Allods Online is one of those MMOs that just keeps on rolling despite its existence not really making any major waves in the wider...
Drakantos says it is very much an MMORPG, but not exactly like others you’ve played
Is Drakantos an MMORPG? A co-op OARPG? The answer to that question is the primary subject of Wingeon Game Studios' June dev blog, which...
Pax Dei’s next major update will feature prettier crafting materials and crafted goods
If you had to run down a personal list of things that survivalbox MMORPG Pax Dei needed to work on, what would that list...
