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Oh, yes, that's confirmed. The next Final Fantasy XIV expansion is entitled Nextpack, leading players to adventures in Land Mass, encountering the beast tribes First Animal and Second Animal, fighting the primals Series Reference and New Character with the help of new jobs Healer and Magical DPS Or Melee DPS. I'm looking forward to our showdown with Villain van Evildude! Look, we...

If you were among those who took part in the pre-order blitz for the PlayStation 5 and found things far from well handled, then perhaps it's reassuring to note that Sony agrees with you. But more importantly, the company promises that it will be releasing more PS5 consoles to retailers for pre-order in the next few days, with further...

The saga of Epic and Apple's legal spat has once more applied a ripple effect to players, this time to Fortnite's PvE mode Save the World. According to a post this past Thursday, Apple is preventing Epic Games from signing updates and releasing fixes when applying the game's latest update, and so Epic is ending support on September 23rd. As...

Here's your Monday bombshell: Microsoft announced this morning that it has acquired ZeniMax Media - and therefore Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Online Studios and all its franchises and games, including the ones near and dear to us, Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76. "Today is a special day, as we welcome some of the most accomplished studios in the games...

Tomorrow is September 22nd, which is a significant date for Lord of the Rings Online players. It's the date of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins' birthday, which is the event that kicks off the book trilogy. In the MMO itself, the birthday is a small but fun event that involves solving riddles and getting a "Birthday Girl" or "Birthday...

A few weeks back, Justin said something on the MOP Podcast that stuck with me. He was talking about how he liked to go back to Hoth on Star Wars: The Old Republic because it was like a visual palate cleanser. Instead of seeming bleak or empty, instead it made him feel calm after other zones that were a...

Square-Enix raised eyebrows this week with the announcement of Final Fantasy XVI - and the revelation that FFXIV's Naoki Yoshida will be attempting to work on both games. Of course, we don't know whether the new game is an MMO just yet, but that just makes room for lots of speculation in the meantime. Meanwhile, we weighed in on WoW's...

Elteria Adventures, the cutesy voxelbox MMO of "creative freedom," has offered up a look ahead to its next major content updates, aka mega patches, each bringing new areas, items, and more for players to explore. The first patch, Faldaren Renewed, introduces a new tutorial chapter and a refreshed first story chapter, as well as hammer, scythe, and guitar weapons,...

Razer, a popular provider of gaming hardware, joined the notorious list of companies that accidentally exposed their consumer's personal information to the world. While credit card info and passwords were not shared, 100,000 customers had other details revealed. "Names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, billing addresses, shipping addresses, and details on what people bought were all leaked, in a way that...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've probably never heard of (or have entirely forgotten about). LiteBringer: Tibia fans who aren't opposed to BitCoin titles might want to take a peek at LiteBringer, a CipSoft MMO with a Tibia-development pedigree. This online RPG's built with an "unapologetic" (their word) use of Litecoin blockchain. "If running an...