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Embers Adrift and Monsters & Memories devs come together to talk indie MMORPG devlopment
This week saw the developers of two classically styled MMORPGs come together to talk shop, as Monsters & Memories creative director and producer Shawn...
Old School RuneScape roadmap details new areas, revamped classic quests, and Sailing’s future
This past weekend saw Jagex host its 2024 Winter Summit event for Old School RuneScape, which dropped a ton of reveals for fans of...
Order and Chaos franchise returns with Guardians, a team-based RPG with ‘MMO-style advancement’
To channel the spirit of one Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time. A long time."
The name in...
City of Heroes Homecoming opens testing of new Arsenal powersets, epic power pool revamp, TF diversity, and more
It's finally here, and by here we mean on the Brainstorm beta server: City of Heroes Homecoming's first big patch since April 2023 (and...
Betawatch: Fractured Online is rolling with its latest round of rollbacks
It's just hard out here for Fractured Online, sadly. We all know about the struggles that the game had when it was being published...
Palia will reduce its beta release cadence – but not its content quantity – in 2024
Singularity 6 is apparently back from holidays and ready with some downer news for Palia. The studio's dev update essentially begins by admitting to...
Final Fantasy XIV jumps the gun on Xbox open beta announcement
One of the biggest developments for Final Fantasy XIV in 2024 that isn't named "Dawntrail" has to be the MMO's debut on Microsoft's game...
EverQuest and EverQuest II’s 2024 roadmaps herald expansions and anniversary hullabaloo
MMORPG players might wonder why a website that questioned why EverQuest II was getting a 19th expansion and referred to it as "unexpected, and...
City of Heroes Homecoming teases I27p7’s new powersets (plural) and story arcs
City of Heroes' Homecoming team, having been under official license by NCsoft for the last two weeks, issued an address to players on its...
Tarisland outlines balance plans based on closed beta feedback – including raid loot
So the good news for people looking forward to Tarisland is that the developers have consolidated the major feedback from the game's closed beta...
The Quinfall studio Vawraek defends its use of AI and ‘ready-made assets’
Some days we live for drama and popcorn, and today we're all out of freshly-popped kernels. So we'll turn our attention to The Quinfall,...
Skull and Bones celebrates ‘hundreds of thousands of players’ in closed beta, teases open beta soon
Whether you believe Ubisoft Singapore or not, the studio is more than happy to toot its horn over Skull and Bones' successful December closed...
Betawatch: SMITE 2 encourages you to smite what has already been smitten
So, who had SMITE 2 on their watchlists for this year? Probably not many people, but Hi-Rez Studios has announced that the game is...
Hi-Rez just officially announced SMITE 2, soft-launching into beta this year – but SMITE will stay online
Have you ever wanted to play SMITE but with better graphics, improved matchmaking, and more modes and special events? Well, soon you can! Except...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you no longer anticipating at the top of 2024?
I feel a bit bad about my picks for today's Daily Grind, as their inclusion here isn't so much that I don't want the...
Massively Overthinking: The 2023 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
This might be one of the most important Massively Overthinkings we do all year, and it's a pretty salty one. We always come away...
Dune Awakening’s latest promo video shows Funcom’s lean toward transmedia synergy
If you spent all last year waiting for Dune Awakening news, well, you're probably pretty hungry, as we got only a few scraps of...
Wayfinder releases Q1 2024 roadmap and jobs board update for dailies and weeklies
We noted yesterday that a roadmap for Airship Syndicate's Wayfinder was imminent, and now it's here, covering everything players can expect from the Q1...
Guild Wars 2’s next world vs world restructuring beta is scheduled to begin January 12
The attempt by ArenaNet to restructure WvW PvP in Guild Wars 2 - an effort that was first announced in 2018 - is set...
Wisdom of Nym: The highs and lows of Final Fantasy XIV’s 2024 Tokyo fan festival
There's a certain dramatic irony in the idea that as the Tokyo fan festival started winding up the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail hype, the...
