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It was a less-than-auspicious beginning for EverQuest's highly anticipated progression server. The new server, Ragefire, came up yesterday and was immediately beset by several issues including overstressed login servers and instant level 50 characters appearing. Daybreak spent the day putting out fires, which included locking the server, applying hotfixes, and ultimately performing a complete wipe. Fortunately, most players had not...

It's crazy to realize that Final Fantasy XIV has added more dungeons via patches in a year and a half than World of Warcraft has added via patches in the game's decade of existence. Sure, a lot of those are hard modes, but considering that every hard mode completely redoes enemies, maps, and such, I'd say they're functionally new dungeons...

The Iconian War is hot stuff in Star Trek Online these days, but players will need to cool their heels due to a "critical technical issue" that is causing a delay of the next update. Executive Producer Steve Ricossa broke the bad news to players on the official site, saying that the team will need to delay the next featured...

Don't believe everything you read from online retailers. This is the lesson that we must learn again as a supposed summer release date for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns was denied by ArenaNet. "Retailers have been setting placeholder release dates for years," the team posted to Twitter, retweeting its statement from 2012: "As always, we have not announced...

Steam and TERA are a match made in F2P heaven, apparently. The latest En Masse press release heralds the action fantasy title as "the most played MMORPG on Steam." The firm is basing its statement on all-time peak concurrency numbers, which it says are available via Steam Charts. Since its May 5th launch on Valve's ubiquitous PC storefront, TERA has enjoyed "explosive growth"...

I'm not the biggest World of Warcraft fan. That said, I'm pretty interested to see what Duncan Jones does with the Warcraft movie. This is more due to the fact that Moon is one of my favorite pictures ever and less due to the fact that the Warcraft film is based on MMOs, but whatever, right? What about you, MOP readers? Would...

Square Enix, come on down! You're the next contestant on Make Your Own MOBA! Lord of Vermilion: Arena is based on the Lord of Vermilion CCG, and it's scheduled to hit open beta in Japan on June 4th. The beta will purportedly offer 15 new summons, a revamped tutorial, story mode content, and more. In terms of gameplay, MMO Culture...

Jagex has published a website update focused on some of the "more pressing issues" being faced by the Old School RuneScape community. The ongoing DDoS attacks that began after a recent ban wave are the dev team's biggest priority at the moment. "Our SysAdmin team have put a lot of effort into making our network more resilient which makes...

How do you pronounce Nar Shaddaa? When I was devouring Star Wars books in the 1990s and playing the crap out of the Dark Forces series, I always heard it as Nar Shade-ah in my mind. Then Star Wars: The Old Republic came around and all the NPCs were saying Nar Sha-DAH, which makes me giggle every time. Anyway, the Nar...

Nothing like a quick turnaround to pique your interest in a game, right? Tree of Life came out of nowhere to announce that its brightly animated sandbox environment would be available on Steam via Early Access, a rare example of a game being imported with ongoing development. The question was just a matter of when, and that question has been...