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Legends of Aria’s Point Release 10 is bringing frosty environments, new items, and new systems
Things are going to get chilly for Legends of Aria players. Point Release 10 is opening up the Frozen Tundra region, and with it...
Classic EverQuest’s server merge update turned into almost two days of downtime
Crucible wasn't the only game struggling with downtime yesterday. Over in the land of classic MMOs, EverQuest fans were in agony over an extended...
Guild Wars 2 on the storytelling philosophy of next week’s No Quarter episode
ArenaNet's Novera King has emerged to pen Guild Wars 2's latest dev blog - no surprise since it's about storytelling and she's one of...
Ship of Heroes is enthusiastic about Unreal Engine 5 – but practical implementation is a long way off
Last week, Epic dropped a bunch of news and a headline-grabbing video showcasing Unreal 5. While a lot of the ensuing discussion centered on...
Everland is a sprite-based social MMO about logging in and hanging out with friends
If you're looking for a 16-bit-styled MMO that's less about being an adventuring murder hobo and more about just hanging out with others, then...
Path of Exile shares its most popular microtransaction items and looks at why they’re popular
Path of Exile has a cash shop. We don't really bring it up much because its offerings are almost completely cosmetic and inconsequential to...
Global Chat: Just say ‘no’ to coin weight!
When Pantheon recently announced that it would be adding coin weight to its inventory management system, little did the devs know that they were...
BioWare Austin’s studio director confirms Anthem reboot will be more transparent and ‘a longer process’
It's been some time since we heard about the rumored and then confirmed reboot to Anthem -- since February, to be precise. As of...
Twitch forms a ‘safety council’ to promote healthy streaming habits and protect marginalized groups
Twitch wants you to know it cares. No, really, it does. Why else would it announce a Safety Advisory Council whose sole purpose is...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMOs need ‘adult’ character customization?
A Random MMO Fan recently wrote to us with a fun topic, linking to an article about Cyberpunk 2077's ESRB rating, which is apparently...
New World deep-dives spriggan boss encounters and design in new dev blog
Here's the thing about spriggans: They're scary as hell and you should stay away from them. That's the only logical takeaway from New World's...
Dual Universe is still not going to consoles… but it could, with these specs
With everyone all agog over the specs for the PlayStation Five and the Xbox Series X, the team at Novaquark has looked at these...
Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...
Battle Bards Episode 168: Big bad boss battles of FFXIV
Final Fantasy XIV fans know full well how Square Enix loves to dote on its huge and often bizarre boss battles — and includes...
Global Chat: Suffering through Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box
Guild Wars 2 fans have developed a cult following around the seasonal Super Adventure Box, but as much as some love it, others have...
Massively Overthinking: Canaries in the MMO coal mine
A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, reader Danny posed us such a provocative question that we said right then we were going...
DayZ developer shuts down its Bratislava studio, affirms it won’t affect development
Bohemia Interactive, the development studio behind DayZ, has officially announced on Twitter that its Bratislava, Slovakia, studio is being shut down. The decision is...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Greymoor’s world-spanning, largely non-combat antiquities system
With Greymoor now scheduled to launch May 26th, we're less than a month away from Elder Scrolls Online's next big thing, and probably the...
Population Zero hypes its impending early access launch and talks about PvP and PvE modes
Just in case you forgot that the multiplayer survival sandbox Population Zero is launching on Steam Early Access on May 5th, there's a sizzle-filled...
Battle Bards Episode 167: Childlike wonder
Tapping into their inner children, the three Battle Bards get into the spirit of name calling, trading stickers, and goofing off in kiddie MMOs....
