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Massively Overthinking: Best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2023
I have to thank all the MMO developers and industry veterans out there for talking long past the time when they should stop talking....
New World announces holiday event kickoff December 12, talks performance and bugs in latest video
Christmas returns to New World next week - or rather I should say, the Winter Convergence Festival: "Holiday cheer spreads across Aeternum once more...
Diablo Immortal’s Splintered Souls update promises new maps, quests, and familiars
Oh hey, remember Diablo Immortal? Blizzard definitely hasn't forgotten all about its last extant project with NetEase, and in fact, its next big patch...
Global Chat: Why does CCP keep trying to make EVE shooters?
We're not the only ones who keep wondering why CCP continues to push for an FPS game set in the EVE Online universe. Long-time...
Star Citizen breaks a crowdfunding record for November with over $28M in sales
In case it wasn't clear what Star Citizen was hoping for when it launched last month's IAE event, the sales numbers for the month...
Eternal Tombs demos low-level melee and magic combat ahead of next test
Eternal Tombs - the MMO originally known as War of Dragnorox - has another dev blog out this week, this time demoing the cutest...
What’s the most cost-effective inventory option in Lord of the Rings Online? One blogger’s done the math
Lord of the Rings Online blogger and guide-maker extraordinaire FibroJedi has pubbed a super useful post this week we just have to highlight because...
Ship of Heroes buffs up its travel powers in the service of this weird thing called ‘fun’
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I derailed into talking about superhero powers and travel powers, so it's perfect timing that Heroic Games'...
Massively Overthinking: Penalties for failure in MMORPGs (beyond death)
MMOs generally have one big obvious penalty for failure, right? You die. Oh, usually not forever, not unless it's some niche hardcore realm, and...
Nightingale opens Steam stress test signups ahead of 2024 launch
Like many of you, we were sad to learn back in August that steampunk sandbox Nightingale was being delayed yet again - its third...
Bossa Games’ post-Worlds Adrift co-op game, Lost Skies, heads into pre-alpha
We've had an eye on Bossa Games - again - ever since May of this year, when the company best known to MMORPG players...
BitCraft delicately balances social interactions and private ownership with its player housing
The fact that BitCraft, Clockwork Labs' upcoming investor-funded sandbox MMO, will feature player housing is something that one might take for granted. But what...
New World completes server merges, teases PUG finder, and addresses roadmap delays
New World's planned server merge went off yesterday without much of a hitch. Readers will recall that Amazon originally announced the merge of nine...
Evercore Heroes talks upcoming remaster, says its ‘fighting for Vela’s survival with this next bet’
It's been an exceedingly rough year for Evercore Heroes, the fusion of MMO, MOBA, and bad luck. The project went into closed beta this...
CCP Games finally ends official support of the long-neglected EVE Portal mobile app
Longtime fans of EVE Online have likely noticed that the sandbox's official EVE Portal mobile app has been in decline for a number of...
Global Chat: Tarisland is the real deal, folks
As Tarisland winds its way through the beta process on its way to our grubby little hands in 2024, there are more and more...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we’re happy still exist – even if we don’t play them
Earlier this month, following the news that Project Gorgon was in dire financial straits as the MMO wasn't making enough for full development and...
Global Chat: Reactions to BlizzCon’s World of Warcraft announcements
Even as BlizzCon 2023 recedes into the distance, the reverberations of its announcements for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic continue to be felt....
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
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,...
