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The developers of Tree of Savior have outlined a general roadmap for 2020, which will focus on several different pain points of the game going forward. The devs at IMCGames are working on a new network structure using UDP and moving to a 64bit system in order to make the game more stable. There will also be some class reworks,...

Last week we chronicled the issues of the Aradune progression server, which faced some massive queue problems at launch. About a week's worth of time has seen things get a bit more stable, however, according to some community responses to a Reddit post about where to hop in to the game from level one. "Aradune just came up a week...

When fellow Star Wars Galaxies Legends player, YouTuber, and friend of MOP Napyet asked me to join him for a podcast last week, I don't think he quite realized I was going to talk his ear off for almost three hours, but that's exactly what happened. Fortunately, Nap's got editing skills: The final version of the show aired on...

We've been wondering just what Playable Worlds, the dev studio headed by Raph Koster, has cooking for the MMORPG world. During a an "MMO Talk" segment on the German gaming Twitch channel Monsters and Explosions (itself run by Mein-MMO.de, GameStar.de, and GamePro.de), Koster revealed that plans for more details are due to arrive at some point next year. In response...

When Final Fantasy XIV launched Shadowbringers, every job had issues, but most of them were fairly minor. That was not universally the case, to the point that four jobs were pretty obviously problems in some way. But now we're (slowly) approaching patch 5.3, and it feels like all of these jobs have seen... well, changes. Not all of them...

Video game studios that feature lockboxes in their titles are sitting very uncomfortably this week as England decides whether or not to make their lives a whole lot more difficult. According to The Guardian, UK lawmakers may classify lockboxes and their virtual ilk as gambling in order to protect the nation's children from what some see as gateways to...

When I played We Happy Few, one of the things that surprised me the most was how much I enjoyed the survival mechanics. I worried they might be annoying, but I found them an enjoyable and immersive experience. Soon after, both Fallout 76 and Conan Exiles ran free weekends, and I got to broaden my experience of survival mechanics. What...

Let's be honest, if any MMO would want to hit a reset button for itself, it'd be ArcheAge Unchained. While the game's entire rocky first year if history isn't being wiped anytime soon, the Unchained servers are getting a fresh start. Or rather, there will be Fresh Start servers on Thursday, June 11th, rolling out in conjunction with the...

The chat box of an MMO was never meant to be a safe haven for racists, but with the protests across the US calling for racial equality after the murder of George Floyd, reeling back racist behavior in-game is more important than ever. With that in mind, the developers of SMITE have put racists who play their game on...

This coming Thursday, June 11th, will see a fresh update to the monster-slashing online RPG Dauntless, which is bringing improvements to the new player tutorial, a new Hunt Pass, Russian language support, and a brand-new Escalation with all sorts of umbrally aspected critters to hunt. I was invited by the folks at Phoenix Labs to check out a part...