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New World’s Winter Rune Forge trial includes parkour and puzzles – but no LFG functionality
Say it five times fast: Winter Rune Forge Trial. That's the formal name of New World's next 10-person endgame raid, coming as part of...
Book of Travels tests a ‘complete overhaul’ of its combat system
When the Kickstarted Book of Travels first released, it was marketed as a micro-MMO that skewed hard away from the typical DIKUMUD combat format....
The MOP Up: Lost Skies gets downright cozy inside of its ships
Lost Skies'Â February dev blog showed off some UX work, early prototypes of its weapon damage system, and some super-cozy ship interior concepts. Also, the...
BitCraft talks up gameplay features and progress for its upcoming closed alpha test
BitCraft is inching ever closer to its first closed alpha testing round, and that means that the studio is back on its dev blog...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends turns eight years old with badges, paintings, and a history lesson
It's hard for me to believe that Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is officially eight years old this week, but it's true,...
Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games
The Nightingale team's admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game - and that Inflexion is now planning to do...
Old School RuneScape shares additional details of undead pirates’ arrival to the Wilderness
The Wilderness zone of Old School RuneScape is looking to get a little more wild and smell a lot more like zombies and sea...
Sandbox MMO Anvil Empires previews chunks of its smithing and weaponcrafting systems
The latest Anvil Empires dev blog is all about making the pointy end part of "stick 'em with the pointy end" as the Siege...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of Dreams, launching today
Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard's Tower in...
Zenith OARPG Infinite Realms launches today as Steam reviews plummet over MMO development halt
There wasn't much lead-up to this - indeed, the world has known it was happening for less than a month - but Zenith's new...
New World talks cooking, PvP metrics, and Amazon’s ‘correction of errors’ for season 5
So, who's hungry?! You, hopefully, and if not, you will be by the time you make it through the newest New World dev blogs...
EVE Online adjusts spaceship balance as CSM member pivots on CCP’s Project Awakening NFT project
With ships and interstellar warfare being expanded in EVE Online's Havoc update, it was only a matter of time before some adjustment knobs were...
Battle Bards Episode 231: Caravan Stories Part 2
Returning to the fertile soundtrack of Caravan Stories, Syl and Syp are rejoined by Steff to give us a fresh take! It’s another journey...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMOs suffering from shrinkflation?
So last week we bought some Girl Scout cookies from a neighbor kid, and I was surprised to find out they were only $5...
Global Chat: What are the top dragons in EverQuest?
If you were pressed to put together a top 10 list of the most famous and infamous dragons in EverQuest, which beasties would you...
Massively Overthinking: The last great year of the MMO genre
I was randomly reading an article about shitposting when I came across a phrase that haunts me. The author referred to 2015 as "what...
Guild Wars 2 previews pre-launch updates to its class weapons proliferation
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet dropped a fresh dev blog last night on V-day to herald the impending launch of the game's new weapon...
Perfect Ten: The 10 phases of MMORPG pre-launch hysteria
One of my private theories about MMO players -- one I'm now making public -- is that we all have the collective memories of...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Scions of Ithelia’s Oathsworn Pit dungeon
Let's do a little vocabulary recap for folks who've forgotten some of the important Elder Scrolls Online terms for 2024, and by folks, I...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost a house in an MMO?
Last week, fellow MMO blogger Belghast wrote a blog post that sent a shot of panic through my own heart: He tells the tale...
