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Is your Paladins' mount feeling stale? Is that old gray mare not what she used to be? Well today just might be your lucky day to change all that! Massively OP's MJ has a special realm pack to give away that includes the new Frostmare Mount as well as a seven-day booster, 10 radiant chests, and two flair chests....

At the beginning of every year, I give the games that I am embedded in a letter grade centered around the four different player types featured in Dr. Richard Bartle's taxonomy. And at in the middle of the year, I like to see where things are so far. Of course, I know that the paper that the taxonomy is based...

Last month, we included Crowfall among the games discussed in a Massively Overthinking roundtable that focused on MMO monetization running amok. Why? Because Crowfall has one of the spendiest cash shops in the genre, and it's not even out yet; indeed, one of its palaces is $7000. That subject is one ArtCraft has addressed today in a new dev blog,...

The Rockstar modding fiasco still isn't over. Back in June, Rockstar and TakeTwo began sending takedowns to the operators of modding tools of varying skeeviness, including OpenIV, a decade-old foundational toolset used by countless modders for the Grand Theft Auto series. The legal threats to a community staple, demands that cheater-centric mods donate their profits to charity, and dubious claim...

The one thing that I thought we could all count on forever was that the MMO life cycle was pretty easy to understand. A game is launched, then it runs for a certain amount of time, then it shuts down. That last part kind of sucks, but the point is that you know when it's time to move on....

Every MMO needs events themed around cookies, am I right? Black Desert's patch today does just that with the "Pit-a-pat Fortune Cookie" event launching today. "From midnight, July 5 till July 26, adventurers can choose Pit-a-pat Fortune Cookie or Fortune Cookies for Rookies from the Achievement section to get one Fortune Cookie," the patch notes explain. Rookie cookies (I'm sorry)...

Aquaman might still be dealing with the shameful vestiges of his poor Superfriends cartoon showing in the 1970s, but the underwater superhero is getting a chance to show off his stuff in DC Universe Online. In fact, the prince of Atlantis is one of the main characters of an Tides of War event that is raging across the game as...

Try not to act too surprised when Overwatch eventually announces Doomfist, as the studio isn't exactly being subtle in its leadup to the team shooter's next playable character. To wit, Overwatch posted a fake news report concerning an attack on the Talon organization by Mr. Fist. It turns out his ultimate goal was to secure his namesake's weapon. Apart from...

The flood of information concerning World of Warcraft's Patch 7.3 and Argus continues to wash over the community as testing proceeds, starting with a new Ion Hazzikostas interview that revealed many interesting facts about the MMO's future direction. As a decimated "husk" of a world, Argus was better suited to the end of the Legion than its own expansion, Hazzikostas explained....

Albion Online is finally making the transition from beta to launch this month. Sandbox Interactive has posted a timeline of events leading up to the formal July 17th release date, beginning with an invasion event this Friday, a treasure hunt on Saturday, and a castle siege event on Sunday. Following the conclusion of Sunday's event, the beta servers will...