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Justin and Bree interview Guild Wars 2's sound design team, then interview our "local" astrophysicist to answer your mailbag questions on space and space games.

The good news is that if you're reading this today, you've managed to survive the holiday rush. The question, then, is whether or not you can survive Survarium's Christmas-themed events, which allow players to received festive toys and exchange them for new unique guns. You could probably shoehorn that in under the spirit of giving if you assume that...

This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2016. October 2015 was the battle of the MMORPG expansions as Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns and Star Wars: The Old Republic's Knights of the Fallen Empire both launched within the same week. Meanwhile, Star...

People have the time to start playing around with their holiday gifts now, but what's the best use of those gifts? More apropos, is it worth getting your new little Google Cardboard stuff all set up and ready to land on planets in Elite: Dangerous? What does that even look like? Wonder no more; there's a video just beneath...

“Difficult to see. Always in motion the future is,” Yoda explained to Luke Skywalker on Dagobah when the boy had a vision of his friends in Cloud City. So when I make predictions for the future of Star Wars: The Old Republic, I know that I am trying to predict something that even the developers might not know. When...

Korean website Inven reports today that Bless Online is due for an infodump early in the new year. Neowiz Games will announce its MMORPG 'Bless' public service schedule. Neowiz Games is coming Held January 15, Samseong-dong, the "Bless the public service briefing' at COEX, and will disclose to a variety of information, including the public service schedule. Among the topics to be covered will...

"Nothing is left of the man I was. There is only the scavenger, the warrior, and the oath he took. Some words cannot be unspoken." This is the quote from the latest Crowfall comic panel reveals, in which a giant warrior grouses about his past decisions. Why are we paying attention to a comic? Because ArtCraft has said that all...

Bugs, shaky servers, and controversial cash shop prices are plaguing Tree of Savior's South Korean launch this week. According to commenters, the release of Tree of Savior was rushed and didn't include fixes for many issues that trouble the game. To add insult to injury, apparently the publisher instituted expensive cash shop items that flipped microtransactions over into macrotransaction territory....

If you're stuck away from home with family over the holidays, you might find yourself jonesing for an MMO that will run and run well on a lower-end rig. Or maybe that's just me! I'd have thought a game like Trove or Cube World would be my best bet, but both are surprisingly rough on an old machine -- turns out...

Back in 2011, our former corporate overlords at Massively-of-old noticed that games like League of Legends were getting pretty damn popular and asked us to work them into the site. In order to incorporate them into an MMO blog without disrupting the existing MMO news coverage, we decided to put all of the news on games that may not fit the...