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The MOP Up: How about Final Fantasy XI’s new Vana’Bout?
Final Fantasy XI had a busy week with a November patch, that "includes changes to foes in Normal and Intense Ambuscades, a new battlefield...
Guild Wars 2 unveils the Guardian’s ‘bullets of justice’ and delays some WvW restructuring plans
It's not every day that you see a tanky MMO class run around with pistols, but that's the sort of fun lunacy that's coming...
Betawatch: Pax Dei, Tarisland, and Perfect New World walk into a bar
What does it mean when both Tarisland and Pax Dei launch limited time testing events on the same week? Is it just a random...
Tarisland devs address the decision to avoid P2W cash shop kit – but not Vigor energy gating
Tencent is apparently continuing to tweak its monetization for Tarisland in response to player angst as it continues charging through its second closed beta...
First Impressions: Perfect New World is an unbalanced mess right now with its ‘equilibrious’ test
This past week has been a mighty full one for our genre in terms of the number of beta tests that landed on our...
Guild Wars 2 teases shortbow Engineers and their ‘essence-infused arrows’
I have to say, as someone who counts a Holosmith in her top handful of Guild Wars 2 toons, that I couldn't initially see...
Blue Protocol JP details new content, features, and double the hotbar buttons arriving November 22
Hungry Blue Protocol newshounds are once again feasting on information shared from Bandai Namco, which has recently wrapped up its latest developer livestream to...
Tarisland takes a closer look at its inscribed stone system and inscribed stone skills as closed beta rolls on
Despite the second closed beta test of Tarisland continuing to march forth, Tencent's Level Infinite is still keen to outline features that are in...
Guild Wars 2 introduces the pistol-totin’ Elementalist for testing November 28
Elementalists, your time to pew pew in Guild Wars 2 is finally here, or will be when the weapon proliferation beta goes live on...
Wizard’s Wrath is a developing cross-platform VR spellcasting MMORPG on Kickstarter now
No, it's not a wizard's dream, but it is Wizard's Wrath, which might not have Christopher Lee singing but does plan to bring some...
The Stream Team: Taking a tour through Tarisland’s closed beta test
Today is the day when MOP's Chris can offer up a brief look inside of the current closed beta build of Tarisland! What sort...
Battle of the betas: Tarisland enters second closed beta as Pax Dei kicks off Home Valley test
What are the chances that two big MMORPGs start key testing on exactly the same 24-hour period? Well, I don't know, but it's definitely...
Project Gorgon, buffered by player donations, has been spared from maintenance mode – for now
The fate of quirky indie MMORPG Project Gorgon has hung in the balance over the last few days following the news that the soft-launched...
Perfect World’s Perfect New World has launched its ‘equilibrious’ beta test today
In case you're not already overloaded with betas right about now, here comes one more in the form of Perfect New World. No, it's...
Funcom is plotting a Dune Awakening early closed beta test – here’s how to sign up
With Funcom dropping more dev blogs about its Dune Awakening MMO, you had to figure that it was building to something, and in fact,...
Aika Online takes first steps toward global re-release with open beta test
This past August saw the MMORPG genre receive a blast from the past we're not sure it was expecting, as 2009's Aika Online announced...
Tarisland unveils Phantom Necromancer class, engages pre-downloads for November 15 beta
Remember when we supposed that the new class for Tarisland was a druid? Well, not exactly, unless of course you subscribe to the D&D...
Betawatch: The Wagadu Chronicles heads to early access on December 4
It's happening, folks: The Wagadu Chronicles is heading into early access on December 4th, just like the headline says. That means you'll get your...
Guild Wars 2’s staff Warrior opens a new avenue for frontline support
In case it isn't obvious by now, ArenaNet is clearly planning to drop a new video and dev blog for every single new weapon/class...
Nexon Q3 2023: Nexon’s getting a new CEO as its PC MMOs like MapleStory drive absurd revenue growth
Owen Mahoney is out at Nexon - and Junghun Lee is in. That's the key bit of news coming out of the company's Q3...
