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So, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there's a Dragon's Prophet emulator out there that's been running for several years, so if you're really desperate to play the Runewaker MMO that first Daybreak and then Gamigo sunsetted, that option remains available to you. The bad news is that the newer Dragon's Prophet...

Could the Fallout 76 community have gotten 150 million units of in-game concrete to ATLAS? Probably not, so it's a good job that Bethesda has tuned down the requirement, which now sits at a sizeable but much more manageable 15 million units. The search for concrete has been the second step in the community goal to build a Brotherhood...

It's been a long wait for players (two months more than expected, even), but the latest Final Fantasy XIV patch is finally live today. You know we've talked about it a lot lately, of course, but there are even the real no-fooling full patch notes out now. Assuming, of course, that you're not already in the game and exploring...

Crowfall, the PvP-centered MMORPG originally Kickstarted back in 2015, announced last week that it had finally arrived at its beta milestone and would begin opening up the game not only to backers but also to registered players this week. This major milestone is something the game's alpha playerbase have been eagerly anticipating, and it's reaching it: today. In MOP's Fight...

We've updated the end of this post with the confirmation and press release; we've left the original reporting intact. For the last year, it seems that Daybreak has registered more trademarks and domain names and social media accounts than it has produced actual content for its MMO. MMO readers will recall that in earlier this year, Daybreak finally confirmed the registrations...

Do you want a taste of the next generation of superhero MMORPGs? From now through August 16th, anyone who would like to see what the Valiance Online team has been cooking up over the last few years can hop into this superhero title and explore this brightly colored new world. Installation simply requires a 1.7 GB download over Google Drive....

By chance, MOP's Carlo struck up a conversation among our team a week ago all about embarrassing character names and gaming handles. Apparently he was teasing a friend for his "xxXLegolasXxx"-style name, when his wife slammed him hard by teasing him for his old handle: TWISTING FANGS. It's a Guild Wars skill name, but he cringed anyway. Ah, marriage! Anyhow,...

You might think scientists would balk at the idea of using online gaming communities as a test bed for study, given those communities'... strong personalities. However, some social scientists from the CogSci 2020 Workshop website have used the sandboxes One Hour One Life and Minecraft to offer some study results about social interaction. In the first study, Harvard University postdoctoral...

The August 2020 newsletters for both Pirate101 and Wizard101 are both live, each with their own little tidbits of information and community goodness for those following along with either game. Or even following both games. You can totally be a fan of both games. For Wizard101's newsletter, it's mostly all about the recently released summer update, which was also the...

Legends of Aria is marching forward with today's release of Season 4: The Shifting Sands as promised, with new dynamic PvE encounters for players to contend with in the Barren Lands and new PvP challenges in the Flat Wilds Chaos Zone. "Journey throughout the Withering Sands and Flat Wilds to discover new dynamic monster spawns. Mysterious portals will guide your...