Global Chat: Looking back at 15 years of World of Warcraft blogging
Fifteen years is a huge chunk of time to devote to both a video game and an ongoing blog covering it, but that's exactly...
Working As Intended: The Fridge Poetry game is the latest distillation of MMORPG PvP
This morning, MOP's Sam busted into MOP's work chat with a link to the Fridge Poetry game.
"It's more like an art project than a...
Vague Patch Notes: Everything in an MMORPG is time-limited
Today, I want to talk to you about an event that you can no longer participate in within Final Fantasy XIV. It's an event...
World of Warcraft’s pre-patch for The War Within disables both warbanks and cross-realm trading because of bugs
If you look at the pre-expansion patch World of Warcraft delivers ahead of expansions as a dry run of the expansion itself, The War...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster: ‘We’re going into space, and it’s going to be awesome’
Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with yet another batch of Stars Reach game pillars, the driving concepts behind the MMORPG sandbox's design. We've...
LOTRO invites everyone to play Hide-and-Seek on the new Mordor server today
If you're awake and have had your second breakfast already, you might be in time to check out an afternoon stress test for Lord...
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds blows into town next week
Guild Wars 2's Festival of the Four Winds -- or as I call it, "Festival of the Falling Off Stuff" -- is breezing back...
The Daily Grind: What sort of time-limited content works well in MMOs?
Over the years, I have occasionally dunked on Guild Wars 2 for making its story content early on revolve around taking part in continually...
Black Desert readies new Dosa skills on PC, adds alpaca mounts on console, changes item acquisition on mobile
It's time for another week of updates to Black Desert, and this week we're going to begin with the console version's patch, primarily because...
Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team just formed a wall-to-wall multidisciplinary WoWGG union
Man, it's been a long, long time coming, but Blizzard Entertainment workers have finally formed a wall-to-wall union, specifically meaning that it includes everyone...
Diablo IV deep dives Spiritborn guardians, Diablo Immortal runs a dungeon event
Which version of Diablo are you playing these days? If it's Diablo Immortal, then you have the opportunity to take part of a "Risk...
Lost Ark tweaks its leveling event, buffs solo raid rewards, and hands out a free swimsuit skin
You might have thought that today's Lost Ark patch would be just a measly maintenance patch, what with the Cool Retreat update just having...
Guild Wars 2 is using Janthir Wilds’ raid and convergence to assess future raid content
With less than a month before Janthir Wilds opens up new zones and housing content, Guild Wars 2's devs are now turning their promotional...
Here’s what to expect from New World’s two-phase Aeternum console beta tomorrow
All right finally here we go: Amazon has just pushed out a big post on what exactly gamers can expect from New World's first...
Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online is finally, officially out of early access
Fractured Online has been through a whole lot over the last few years, from its Kickstarter campaign to its Gamigo-backed early access, then to...
NCsoft expands Throne & Liberty publishing to several additional regions in Asia and beyond
There's still a little time remaining before Throne & Liberty finally launches over here on September 17th as published by Amazon. But there are...
The Soapbox: Why MMOs are the ultimate creature comforts
As long as I can remember, I've been an avid fan of re-consuming my favorite forms of media. I used to read the same...
Perfect Ten: 10 times MMOs appeared in TV and movies
It's always surreal when real MMOs cross the divide between niche and mainstream to be referenced in television and films. Depending on how you...
New World declares Hot Spriggan Summer with today’s event and update
Well, Amazon told y'all that it was going to be running events all summer to keep you busy in New World while you wait...
SWTOR’s 7.5.1. includes Greatest Bounty season, new Date Night missions, and improved gear progression
Broadsword released a teaser stream last night for Star Wars The Old Republic's 7.5.1 update, and while it's certainly welcome, it's... a 7.5.1 update....
