B2P survival MMO Myth of Empires is free-to-play on Steam through August 5
If Myth of Empires always whispered to you but you've not wanted to shell out 30 bucks to try it, this weekend's free-play event...
Throne & Liberty testers murdered almost 30M NPCs during its open beta
If you wanted to kill someone in PvP during Throne & Liberty's open beta test, you were using a dagger. The most common builds...
Final Fantasy XIV brings the Moonfire Faire around once more on August 8
Yo dawg, we heard you like summer celebrations, so we put a summer celebration in your summer vacation in Final Fantasy XIV so you...
Tarisland adds damage and defense bonuses for bringing rookies to endgame content
Tarisland has been surprisingly quiet since its launch here in the west last month, with Tencent having focused on launch promotion and influencer showdowns....
Vague Patch Notes: The player-provided guidance problem in MMORPGs
Final Fantasy XIV has a player-based mentor program and an automatic guidance network for new players. The idea is that certain players can volunteer...
Ashes of Creation previews its Bard class, announces Alpha Two’s release in October
It's time to get violently musical in Ashes of Creation, or at least it will be when Alpha Two goes live because the Bard...
Raph Koster on designing and defining Stars Reach: ‘The Tragedy of the Commons is a lie’
Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with a new dev blog on Stars Reach, and it's not about game design pillars this time; it's...
LOTRO opens new legendary servers today, Before the Shadow is now free for VIPs
Lord of the Rings Online welcomed VIP players to a pair of brand-new progression servers today, one of which finally gives European players a...
The Daily Grind: Do you see your MMO characters as characters or as playing pieces?
There's an interesting element to a lot of games where you have places where the layers of gameplay break down. Your character in World...
Old School RuneScape once again applies adjustments to Deadman and Guthrix
This may have happened twice before, but that's not stopping Jagex from continuing to dial things in for Old School RuneScape players engaging with...
Old-school web browser MMORPG Tanoth has been resurrected in a playable beta format
Here's a blast from the past that is sure to catch genre fans by surprise. Does anyone here remember Tanoth? It was a web...
Guild Wars 2 runs down the essentials of Homestead gameplay in the Janthir Wilds
Your house (in Guild Wars 2) can be a very very very fine house (fine house), with stray cats in the yard. Unlocking them...
Guild Wars 2 kicks off Festival of the Four Winds, preps PvP warclaw overhaul ahead of Janthir Wilds
When Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds launches at the end of August, the warclaw mount will undergo a major transformation as the journeykin, an...
Dungeons and Dragons Online tests new level cap, quests, and feats for Magic of Myth Drannor
Before anyone knows it, August 14th will be upon us, which means Dungeons and Dragons Online players will be able to get in to...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with outstanding tutorial sections
Tutorials! They're important. I even wrote an entire column about them recently, talking about how important they are in getting people into a new...
Destiny 2 studio Bungie lays off another 220 workers, ending work on multiple games
Bungie is conducting yet another round of massive layoffs today. The Destiny 2 studio announced the elimination of 220 jobs, around 17% of the...
Palia’s latest update rewards gamers for building – and touring! – player houses
As teased, Singularity 6 - now owned by Daybreak, which continues to boggle the mind - released Palia's Summer Serenade patch last night, with...
Chrono Odyssey shares combat impressions from a recent small-scale test
It's been some time since we've heard a peep out of Chrono Odyssey, the splashy UE5-powered MMORPG from developer Npixel and publisher Kakao Games,...
Star Citizen begins its Ship Showdown community event and demonstrates building a POI
The time has once again come for fans of Star Citizen to stump for their favorite internet spaceships and ultimately see which one is...
Corepunk is dispatching preorder keys today ahead of next week’s alpha
If you've been waiting patiently for the delivery of your Corepunk pre-order keys, today is your day. Well, technically, it was supposed to be...
