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Webzen is celebrating the best holiday ever - Halloween, of course - with a round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU Legend, MU Online, Rappelz, Flyff, and Continent of the Ninth Seal (C9). "Players can visit to knock the door of the Haunted House on Webzen.com to obtain Halloween Candies every day," says the...

A new monster has made its way to Dauntless. Part bat, part cat, part teleportation device, and part Halloween on four legs -- it's the Riftstalker. It also happens to be all new to Chris. Care to watch him take on this new challenge for the first time? Tune in live at 2:00 p.m. as Massively OP's Stream Team...

Acquisitions Incorporated has been the talk of the town in Neverwinter lately, what with the upcoming Heart of Fire module being only a week out from its slated release. Apparently pilfering -- err, recovering -- the Heart of Fire isn't the only thing on Acquisitions Incorporated's agenda, as a recent dev blog unveils the upcoming "K-Team" dungeon challenges that...

For those suffering with MMO wanderlust this fall and looking for new territory to explore, Fractured might have a rather unique prospect available soon. The team behind this multi-format indie MMORPG said that it is "sprinting" toward a pre-alpha test right now. Fractured's pre-alpha will be a time-limited test that will take place in November, followed by the (hopeful) official...

Beta for Elite Dangerous' Beyond Chapter Four's PC update is live now, or rather, the first wave is. "In tune with our vision for the Beyond season of updates, this fourth and final chapter brings improvements and additions to existing core features of Elite Dangerous," Frontier says. Today's chunk of testing will focus on the new exploration mechanics, new...

Maybe it's the weird gaming lull that's going on right now, but MapleStory 2 has picked up a good amount of press and player eyeballs (ew) as the newest MMORPG on the block. The verdict? It's mixed, although Nexon's adorable anime is generating more discussion than it otherwise would have in a more active market. "It is worth checking out...

Is RuneScape a mainstream PC MMORPG? Even as big as it is, I might not have applied that moniker before, but Jagex has done so in its press release, declaring that "Old School RuneScape has today become the first mainstream PC MMORPG to launch in full on iOS and Android devices." There are, of course, plenty of other MMORPGs...

Have you taken advantage of the fact that Shroud of the Avatar has gone free-to-play yet? Or are you staring at that with some confusion because you didn't realize the game was officially free-to-play before now? Either answer is right; while the last set of patch notes mentioned improvements to the "free player" experience, it's only this week that...

If you've been having problems with your Black Desert server crashing this week, you're not alone. Kakao seems to be suffering a wave of DDOS attacks on the North American servers, including one this morning. While Kakao says it's taken care of the latest wave, it's not yet clear whether players will be granted compensation. In other Black Desert news,...

It's hardly a surprise that Red Dead Redemption 2 is a successful game, but let's just quantify that by noting that the game is now publisher Take-Two's best opening weekend of all time at $725 million. It doesn't top out Grand Theft Auto V's first three opening days, but since RDR2 was released on a Friday, different terminology can...