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We're going to take a detour from our tour of various MMO soundtracks to talk about one of the most common statements I hear when the discussion of in-game music comes up. Here it is: "Oh, I turned the music off a long time ago." It's downright hard to get into any good discussion about music when, y'know, people don't listen...

When you're planning your summer MMO vacation, there will be a lot of places bidding for your time and gold. But not every resort is vengeful spirit-free, and not every tourist trap promises that you'll come back with all of your limbs. To help you avoid the worst places in games, our readers scouted out some vacation destinations that you're...

A few weeks back, when MOP's Justin did a Daily Grind about whether folks prefer helmets on or off in MMOs, one reader took a roleplay approach to the decision. "Off in conversations," Lord Nox said. This seems like a no-brainer - pun intended! - but really, unless you're a hardcore roleplayer, when was the last time you actually did...

Think you've played every MMO that's out there? There are more games, Horatio, than your mind could even conceive. And that's why we have this sporadic column to highlight news and videos from the lesser-known online games. We'll kick it off today with Helbreath Olympia, which bills itself as "an old-school medieval fantasy MMORPG with large scale open PvP and...

Ah, the battle pass. It sure does seem to be the new microtransaction hotness, doesn't it? And now this latest trend in multiplayer gaming has made its way to Shadow Arena with an update made this past Thursday. As one would expect, this battle pass offers up a number of rewards that can be purchased for points earned through...

Yeah, so, we are still trying to wrap our heads around the weirdness that is TERA's surprising announcement last month that it is going to add a MOBA to the client in the next content update. But how will these games actually function? Fortunately, a new post from En Masse serves to illuminate the process of game matches. The studio...

City of Heroes veterans no doubt fondly (or not-so-fondly) recall the numerous Rikti invasions that happened in Paragon City over the years. Ship of Heroes' developers must hold the same fondness for antagonistic aliens because they are hosting their own invasion event next weekend on August 15th with a few dozen beta testers. Seeing as how Ship of Heroes is,...

Roblox VP of Product Deepak Chandrasekaran held a skill-building talk at GDC Summer 2020 this week titled Building the Metaverse through User Generated Content and the Cloud, but in true, the panel primarily was about Roblox. However, Chandrasekaran did bring up some good points that we can discuss in the context of the Billion Person Gaming panel. In keeping...

Few things say "summertime" quite like a water park, and seeing as how the pandemic is kind of killing the joy a real-life water park's opening would bring this season, the GM's of Black Desert are doing the next best thing: hosting an in-game grand opening event for the Termian Water Park. The event will feature a little inter-channel dance-off...

The part of Eliot in today's WRUP will be played by Bree. Unfortunately, Bree is not nearly as funny as Eliot and is very bad at writing bizarre and unexpected WRUP introductions, so you can go into the comments down below and leave Eliot a message about how much you hope his annoying city fixes his power post-hurricane so...