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It's been a wild year for PWE's Cryptic Studios, as it's been busy maintaining its core MMORPGs but also working on Magic Legends, which began life as an MMO and has since shifted gears - and delayed significantly. That's the takeaway from a new interview on VentureBeat with Cryptic boss Stephen D'Angelo, who covers a ton of ground on...

It's shaping up to be a busy month over in Lord of the Rings Online, as yet another preview build of Update 28 went out on the test server. Among other new features, players can try out the new mission system, which offers "short, solo, or duo scaleable instances" that will be available to players in most of the...

With Cyberpunk 2077, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, and Baldur's Gate 3 coming out this fall, it's certainly shaping up to be the season of the RPG. And speaking of Baldur's Gate 3, the long-awaited follow-up to BioWare's 2000 masterpiece has just gone into early access. Why does this matter to our crowd? It's because players have the option to dive...

Just so, so many of my friends are playing Genshin Impact these days -- and not just playing, but gushing over the fun, the beauty, and the gacha business model. Wait, what? Yes, I've actually seen many people both defending and approving of the game's use of the controversial gacha model of character acquisition and improvement, saying that Genshin...

As beautiful as the crystalline structures are, Massively OP's MJ can't help but love the lushness of the Aurelian Coast in EverQuest II's Blood of Luclin. Who said the moon can't be forested? Tonight she continues her signature quest for the expansion... assuming she isn't distracted by all the side quests again or the pretty scenery! Tune in live...

Don't you hate when you're playing Neverwinter on your PlayStation 4 and you realize you need to change your power setup but don't want to deal with the inevitable cooldown? Now you won't have to. The newest patch for the game's console versions today changes the system so that you will no longer incur a cooldown for changing out of...

Release 83 for Shroud of the Avatar is going to make fast travel significantly more convenient for those players who own certain teleporters in their player-owned towns. In the latest Avatar update post, fans get a look at expanded features for the teleporters to Ardoris, Central Brittany, and Owl’s Head. All three of these location-specific teleporters will now let governers...

October's destined to be a solid month for RuneScape fans, thanks to the release of a new archaeology digsite rolling out on October 19th. It's called Orthen, and players are encouraged to complete the Desperate Measures questline and secure level 90 archaeology before attempting the new content. "Orthen, our mysterious sixth dig site, was once the stronghold of the dragonkin...

Justin and Bree discuss WoW Shadowlands' and Magic Legends' delays, Torchlight 3's planned launch, PlanetSide 2's big patch, Skyforge's Switch announcement, and HEX's sunset, with a Daily Grind lightning round and mailbag topics on feelung untethered from MMOs, live podcasts, and MMO dailies.

The devs of Path of Exile know that the titular heists of its recent League could use a bit of improvement, and with the most recent patch update, they seek to do just that. This latest patch introduces tweaks that should make heists shorter like reducing the maximum length of a Heist in higher level areas and the number of...