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A new patch for the Queen update of Albion Online is live, and it's basically providing a few adjustments to make life a little better for the game. For one, this patch brings double the Fame for winning in the Arena, and healers will be getting an Adept's Tome of Insight worth 10,000 Fame on top of their usual rewards....

The most recent developer roundtable steam from the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen devs covers a lot of pretty big topics, including the game's encounter design philosophy, NPC AI, and the special Disposition system. In the stream, the devs noted that the challenge level of an encounter like the Tower of the Reckless Magician is right where the team wants...

Elder Scrolls Online game director Matt Firor has posted a lengthy and detailed explanation of some of the rough spots encountered during last week's Greymoor chapter launch. In it, he addresses some of the challenges the ZeniMax Online Studios team has been facing over the past several months, including working from home and managing large server populations. "We have been...

With Ashes of Creation's pre-alpha ticking along and the NDA partially lifted, we're starting to hear more and more about this upcoming MMO. It's still a ways off, though, as the team hopes to arrive at full alpha status this fall, but there is evidence of a substantial game here beyond design documents. Intrepid Studios sent out its May newsletter...

It may not have been a traditional MMORPG, but it's safe to say that Marvel Heroes was a pet favorite here among the Massively OP staff and readers; we even handed it awards and gave it a dedicated column. And today would've been its seventh birthday - if it weren't dead. Gazillion's Marvel game launched in 2013 as what we...

The rumors have flown around about Naoki Yoshida being attached to Final Fantasy XVI as the game's director. In fact, the rumors have been flying about Final Fantasy XVI and Naoki Yoshida for a while now, something that this exact site has speculated about. But during the ongoing re-broadcast of old live broadcasts with commentary by Yoshida himself, one of the...

You know what's fascinating about the original Guild Wars release, later redubbed as Guild Wars: Prophecies? The Prince Rurik fight works. Yes, these are spoilers for a game that's been out for 15 years: You ultimately wind up fighting an undead Prince Rurik near the end of the main story. And at a glance, this shouldn't feel like a big moment. Most...

So, PC player friends, how has Phantasy Star Online 2 been working for you? Have you been running face-first into issues? Have you been circumventing things with the PSO2 Tweaker? Are you perhaps wondering when an "official" fix is coming? Regarding an answer to that question, we're going to have to keep wondering if the most recent tweet is...

Let's not beat around the bush, here: We are all loot fanatics. We love getting those choice drops and seeing our bags fill up with that sweet, sweet treasure -- so much so that it is almost unthinkable for an MMORPG to deny us access to corpse robbing. Well, boys and girls, New World is not going to break that...

A land of perpetual twilight, overseen by the Winter Queen, Ardenweald is a forested portion of the afterlife players will be exploring in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. But it has a problem just like every other region in the Shadowlands because the flow of anima has dried up and the forest is beginning to wither. Compounding the problem is the...