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EverQuest and EverQuest II released full 2025 roadmaps – and of course, new expansions are coming this fall
It's roadmap week over in the land of EverQuest, as Daybreak's Darkpaw Games has delivered roadmaps for both Original Flavor EverQuest and New Coke...
Monster Hunter Now adds Kirin February 1, Monster Hunter Wilds reruns its open beta February 6 and February 12
Monster Hunter fans are going to be eating pretty well in the month of February, as the mobile ARG title Monster Hunter Now prepares...
Extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil heads into open beta this week with a new trailer
March is bound to be an interesting when Seekers of Skyveil goes into early access and tries to prove its worth to the gamer...
Ship of Heroes collects its dev progress through 2024 as it still eyes launch this year
Among the MMOs we've suggested you should keep your eyes on in 2025 is Ship of Heroes, which is looking to make its release...
MMO Hype Train: Could 2025 be the Year of Dune Awakening?
I'm going to lay out my cards on the table because I think that honesty is germane to what we'll be talking about today:...
Whatever happened to multiplayer voxel RPG Cube World and its successor, Cube World Omega?
Some of you may recall -- or even be fans of -- a cute indie voxel RPG known as Cube World. This was a...
Terraria discusses development of its upcoming Skyblock seed and releases a ‘simpler’ version to Steam
While most of the Re-Logic team has been on break during the holidays, the devs behind the pixel art survivalbox Terraria haven't been completely...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation drama, Corepunk impressions
The past couple of weeks have seen two back-to-back holidays, so there wasn't as much beta news as you might have expected, but there...
Extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil’s 2025 roadmap promises early access in March
PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil is gearing up for an action-packed start to 2025 -- and studio Elodie is happy to tell you...
Shroud of the Avatar lead dev joins another new studio, this time as ‘chief velocity officer’
Remember when gamers noticed how Shroud of the Avatar and Catnip Games' Chris Spears was quietly forming a new game studio to put together...
Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta
Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...
Betawatch: SWTOR’s Mac test, Stars Reach’s preview, Steel Hunter’s beta weekend
Some weeks, everyone is going whole-hog on beta developments. And some weeks you have two back-to-back holidays coming up so everyone decides "eh, let's...
Dune Awakening shares closed beta stats and answers questions about PvP death and Landsraad benefits
The final Dune: Awakening newsletter for this year is online, and as one might expect, it's mostly a retrospective of the year that was...
Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends
There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
Palia introduces snowball fights, in-game board games, and curtains in the Holiday Homestead update
Cozy multiplayer life sim Palia is arguably getting more cozy and more multiplayer with its Holiday Homestead patch, which adds a couple of wintertime...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Sandbox MMORPG The Quinfall announces early access release date of January 25
Over the past several months we've been covering The Quinfall, Vawraek Technology's open world sandbox MMORPG, which made its arrival to gamers' notice in...
The Soapbox: The Dauntless Awakening update is just as bad as advertised for veteran players
I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to write that headline.
I've been a Dauntless fan and player for many years now, getting...
