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If you logged into Lord of the Rings Online this week hoping for an easy road to Mordor, think again. There are a whole lot of orcs, balrogs, and stuttering servers between here and there. It doesn't appear that the issues that (re)plagued the game last week have cleared up at all. After a few days of silence on the...

If we're keeping score, and really that would be unnecessary since the courts are doing that for us, we're currently at Epic 1, Apple 1 in the Fortnite-involved legal battle over platform payment monopolies. Last night, the judge in the case issued an early decision that essentially stops Apple from retaliating against Epic by deleting Epic's developer accounts and threatening...

I realize this question doesn't apply to all MMOs: Some MMOs don't have quests at all, while in others, there's no way you're leveling without them even if you hate them. So adjust the question for your experiences accordingly. But I've been playing LOTRO lately, and all I'm doing is sidequests. I'm quite certain that skipping large parts of the...

Massively OP's MJ has had to do some demo work in her new home, but she's not ready to stop now! Even with sore muscles, she can smash things up with her Scion in Path of Exile. And that's exactly what she plans on spending her evening doing, so join us live at 8:00 p.m. as Massively OP's Stream...

For the past several weeks, OrbusVR players have been participating in the Explore the Realm event in an effort to unlock a new island to explore, while the devs of the VR MMO have been making that goal easier by uncapping event totals which has reportedly helped fill the bar to completion significantly. Over the past week, that goal...

August has seen another new mobile MMO launch, this one a strategy MMO Supremacy 1914 spinoff called just Supremacy 1, which developer Bytro says is meant to be a deep MMORTS that is still accessible to newbies. "Supremacy 1 puts players in command of a nation during the dark days of World War I, in grand Long Term Strategy (LTS)...

One of the unique perks of working on Champions Online for Cryptic is that each developer gets his or her own in-game avatar, complete with a personalized look. But there's one dev that is lacking such an honor, and the studio is looking to the playerbase to help writer and community manager Mike "Ambassador Kael" Fatum establish his in-game...

When is a sign more than a sign? When it doubles as a spawn location as well as a teleporter. That's some of the duties that player-owned town signposts will soon be capable of in an upcoming update to Shroud of the Avatar. In addition to letting players fast travel to other player-owned towns, these signposts can be designated as...

Even if sand is coarse and rough and gets everywhere, there are bigger problems with the desert ruins area that was recently introduced to premadeath dungeon-crawling shooter MMO Realm of the Mad God. Things like monsters that would very much like to shoot your character down, thanks very much. This new Ancient Ruins dungeon also provides a number of new...

This week in RuneScape we have traveling artisans, some Golden Gnomes, and a couple of little fixes to share. It's just another Monday for fans of Jagex's MMORPG! Players who visit the Dwarven Mine entrance have likely noticed a new NPC by the name of Doran the Tool Artisan, who is bringing with him a bunch of new tool cosmetics...