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Phantasy Star Online 2 is a fun treasure buried under antique contrivances and inconveniences
When I first booted up Phantasy Star Online 2, the only way to get to a suite of visual options that included making the...
Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing
One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...
Global Chat: Does SWTOR fail in the end for (Han) soloers?
As his name suggests, FibroJedi is a big Star Wars: The Old Republic player -- but even so, he is not above criticizing the...
Phantasy Star Online 2 offers installation fix suggestions, promises a hitching patch on June 10
Phantasy Star Online 2 has made good on the promise for more communication it made in its apology for the MMO's botched launch posted...
SEGA apologizes for botched Phantasy Star Online 2 launch
Two days in to the disastrous launch of Phantasy Star Online 2, SEGA finally released a statement and apology - as far as we...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?
Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...
First Impressions: Phantasy Star Online 2’s technical clownshow mangled its PC launch
Phantasy Star Online 2 is, bar none, the absolute worst experience I have ever had with trying to get a game working on my...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor, Phantasy Star Online 2 PC struggle during launch week
If you thought Guild Wars 2's No Quarter was going to be the release champion of this big-launch MMO week, you deserve a whole...
Phantasy Star Online 2 has finally launched on PC in the west after eight years
As promised - and after so many years of waiting that many folks had long since given up on it - Phantasy Star Online...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 273: ArcheAge Unraveled
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, PSO2 PC, Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor, Guild Wars 2's No Quarter, EverQuest, Daybreak, Sea of Thieves, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, ESO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on rogue server security and digital rights.
Phantasy Star Online 2 kicks off multiple events as preload begins tonight
Wednesday, May 27th, is a pretty important day for Phantasy Star Online 2. Not only is the MMORPG finally making its way to PC...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is most in need of a major quality-of-life overhaul?
MOP reader Ashfyn recently made an offhand comment about quality-of-life upgrades in MMOs that caught my attention. " was a my favorite game back...
Battle Bards Episode 169: Wild Things
Do you ever walk on the wild side in MMOs? Do you have a penchant for beastly races that aren’t merely reskinned humans? Then...
Blade & Soul’s Steel Bonds update is now live
The first part of the Steelbreaker raid in Blade & Soul lies broken behind you. It doesn't lie lifeless behind you, or at least,...
Daybreak has apparently registered another substudio: Wandering Monster Games
Back in 2019, we started covering Daybreak's moves to register trademarks and domain names and social media accounts for a bunch of groups that...
Steampunkish Elyon proposes ‘massive’ Korean beta test this summer
If you cast your mind back a couple of years, you might recall that steampunk MMO fans were hanging their hopes on the then-newly...
The Stream Team: Age of Conan turns 12
What are you, a twelve-year old? "Why yes, yes I am," Age of Conan proudly declares! And all of Hyboria is celebrating the milestone....
TERA dons Little Red Riding Hood costumes for PC anniversary as Gameforge takes on Russian publishing
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Certainly not many of the classes in TERA, especially those that wield weapons as large as their...
Age of Conan’s 12th birthday is splattered with prizes and challenges
Twelve years ago in 2008, Age of Conan launched to great acclaim, bringing a mature-themed fantasy MMORPG to market. Now in 2020, the title...
Phantasy Star Online 2 is officially launching on PC in the west May 27
This piece has been updated with the latest release info; skip to the end for the new stuff.
The team behind Phantasy Star Online 2...
