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We probably don't need to reiterate what dreadfully bad luck it is to have your early access MMORPG offline the whole week before Christmas, but that's the situation that's confronted Corepunk for the whole workweek now. As we've been covering, Artificial Core released an update on Monday that apparently introduced a major disconnection problem. By Wednesday, the team explained there...

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Standing Stone Games last year. We asked our writers to consider all MMO studios as well as other online games studios we cover and judge the studios on what they did within the MMO genre this year specifically....

The time is almost here when World of Warcraft players will get to experience Goblin Nar Shadaa, aka the city of Undermine, in patch 11.1. That means it's time for the devs of Blizzard to come together in a video and grant a preview of what's coming in patch 11.1: Undermined. In terms of features, Undermined brings on the DRIVE...

As the year winds down, it's a good time to throw another log on the virtual fireplace, heat up your favorite beverage, and settle in with an MMO holiday event... or two... or sixteen. There certainly is no shortage of yuletide, winterwhatever, Christmas festivals happening in pretty much every MMO, after all! Because it's so overwhelming to keep track of...

CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it delivered that goal: The new alpha build is indeed live, but as Chris Roberts explains in a Letter from the Chairman address, it's the 4.0 preview and not the full-on build replacement that the studio...

The new Assault mode for Planetside 2 is going to require different playstyles for both attackers and defenders, according to the developers' final missive of 2024, in which they introduce the new content coming next year. Unlike most maps, Assault mode will ensure that defenders can't take back objectives once attackers have claimed them; every victory won on the offensive...

The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games I didn't think I'd ever truly fall in love with again - including Guild Wars 2. I always knew I'd come back for Janthir Wilds, but I never expected to become so obsessed with one...

The healers of House Jorasco in Dungeons & Dragons Online discovered that a cult called the Disciples of Rage plan to attack the Night Market. Massively OP's MJ will join Bril Norgate, a member of the Twelve, to thwart the attack before casualties pile up. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. for Night Falls on Stormreach, the first step...

This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And as usual, we have to add a caveat here that just because we think something will happen does not mean we hope it does, although sometimes it does. Let's roll the dice and try not to...

Are you ready for some classic low-poly holiday cheer? Then you're in luck because the EverQuest Online Adventures rogue server Sandstorm has kicked off its holiday event last weekend with lots of Christmastime MMORPG content to take on to help a terrifying group of folks as pictured above. "The Skyrgamur company of 17 needs your help with the party preparations....