Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives for the Halloween season
Don't look now, but MapleStory might be crushing the competition with its Halloween update this year. The V.254 release arrived on Wednesday with the...
Medieval MMO Anvil Empires introduces cargo ships to cross the ocean blue
When medieval sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires greatly expanded its in-development world map into several landmasses this past August, it created a new problem for...
EverQuest Online Adventures rogue server Sandstorm continues weekly updates and celebrates Halloween
At the top of this year we did a quick check-in on the rogue servers of the old console MMORPG EverQuest Online Adventures, including...
Villagers and Heroes plans The Crux update for October 28, eyes subscription hike
Villagers and Heroes is gearing up for its next big thing: It's called The Crux. The first part of it, anyhow, and it includes...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run
The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...
EVE Online reveals Revenant expansion, EVE Frontier wraps up fourth test, EVE Vanguard plans ‘biggest update yet’
Who's ready for a big announcement from EVE Online? CCP Games revealed EVE's next expansion, Revenant, this afternoon. It's set to launch November 12th.
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Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?
All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
Lord of the Rings Online gets its Harvestmath fall festival underway
What's the best Lord of the Rings Online festival? That's a point of fierce debate among the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, but there's a...
Tarisland’s Blight Dragon Elegy raid blog is its weirdest lore dump yet
Before you ask: No, we still don't know when in October Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy and first proper season are launching, but no matter...
Stars Reach’s world reshaping tool test rewarded curious players with ‘spectacular’ death
Stars Reach is continuing to push onward with playtesting that almost no one is in, but at least we get to hear about it...
Here’s the timeline for New World Aeternum preloading and launch by region and platform
We're now less than a week away from the launch of New World's Aeternum expansion and the welcoming of console players to the mix....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the worst fishing?
I have long been a tireless advocate for the idea that fishing, as a minigame, is not good. I do not care for fishing....
Old School RuneScape reduces downtime and improves its winter boss fight
The great GM knows that all of us have gone through an endless parade of boss fights in MMOs. But most of those encounters...
Elder Scrolls Online teases backstories for its upcoming pair of companions, Zerith-var and Tanlorin
When update 44 arrives in The Elder Scrolls Online later this month, its most exciting feature is surely its two new companions, Tanlorin and...
TERA Console’s October patch opens a new dungeon and activates Halloween
The first update since August's new screenshot mode patch arrived for TERA Console this week, opening up a new dungeon and welcoming players to...
Tarisland lays out its philosophy for seasons ahead of Blight Dragon Elegy
With Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy launching later in October (no, we still don't know which day, bizarrely), Tencent is deep-diving what players can expect...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s October 15 Moogle Treasure Trove event includes a… donut earring
The next Final Fantasy XIV Moogle Treasure Trove event is kicking off next week, and it is clearly aimed at the Homer Simpson crowd....
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
