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The Korean-only mobile MMORPG TERA Classic has decided to give the game's tiniest race one of its biggest weapons. Or maybe they misheard the...

Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...

The next update for Blade & Soul is dubbed Storm of Arrows and that sounds absolutely horrifying. You might say "it's just a little rain" if...

Buried under all the WoW Classic news at the end of August was Funcom's second quarter financial report. Let's rectify our oversight with a...

Back for a third round, the Battle Bards examine a slew of main themes from MMORPGs! Considering how essential these themes are in making...

Welcome back home! That feels like the sentiment that WoW Classic gave when it launched recently. Players absolutely swarmed to these servers, many of...

This week, NCsoft quietly announced Storm of Arrows for Blade & Soul, packed with the new Zen Archer class. Players who log in before...

Giant monster hunting isn't just a sacred duty of those sworn to protect that one blacksmith and his family, it's also a competition between...

One day when I grow up, I hope to be half as amazing and down-to-earth cool as most of our One Shots community here....

Yesterday, MMO blogger Wilhelm Arcturus of The Ancient Gaming Noob dropped a fun conspiracy theory in the comments of our piece on EVE Online...

There are, let's face it, a limited number of different ways to design real-adjacent zones in any fantasy game. At the end of the...

While all we've got is registrations and assumptions, it certainly looks like Daybreak Games is moving forward with some form of business plans. Our...

The last couple of news items to come out of DC Universe Online have been so much about game mechanics that it was almost...

In what appears to be DC Universe Online's continued effort to refine its systems, the devs have unveiled plans to consolidate Artifact Catalysts with...

Time to push all your chips to the center of the table and gamble big in TERA. Well, gamble big without losing actual money,...

Now that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to North America (really, they mean it this time, until they don't), it feels a little...

The so-called Precision meta needs some work if a dev blog from the folks at DC Universe Online is to be believed. In order...

It's time to celebrate the summer heat in Blade & Soul with the latest patch, as it brings Hongsil's Summer Blast to the game....

This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...

A long time ago, for a few months after it launched, I was an avid Neverwinter player. I loved its visceral combat, and to...