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Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this year?
Going through our coverage of 2019's MMOs, I realized there are a bunch of games that have previously been on our "anticipated" lists that...
Elite Dangerous’ big bug-fixing update lands in January, with betas starting next week
Remember back in October, when Frontier announced that it was listening to player feedback and bumping off Elite Dangerous' big December content update -...
Battle Bards Episode 156: Feeling blue
Is blue a color? An emotion? A song? An overused alien skin tone? One thing is for certain: Blue shows up an awful lot...
Global Chat: EverQuest II’s 15 years of being in WoW’s shadow
For just a few short weeks of its now 15-year lifespan, EverQuest II existed apart from a launched World of Warcraft. Then late November...
The Division 2 ponders the future of its communication and state-of-the-game streams
How much is too much information about a game? That depends on how much the game actually has on offer. Over the years, we've...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMO betas rob you of launch joy?
I use to think of betas as being unpaid labor for video game companies, but maybe I've been going about it all wrong. On...
Legends of Aria previews New Dawn’s episodic content and murder penalties
Just before Halloween, Legends of Aria's Citadel Studios announced some sweeping changes coming to the early access sandbox. After revamping its PvP system and...
Guild Wars 2 details Whisper in the Dark’s Essence Manipulation mastery track mechanics
Gonna be honest, I am really excited to see this dev blog that went up on the Guild Wars 2 website today, not so...
RuneScape is rethinking its monetization after UK report on one player’s alleged $62K spend
RuneScape is a pretty old game, but it has a new way of doing business as a free-to-play MMORPG with various microtransaction models and...
RuneScape on mobile and movement updates, end of Java support
The future of RuneScape's technology is the primary topic of the latest developer blog, which provided affirmation of the nearing end of mobile development,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest break you’ve ever taken from MMOs – and why?
A while back, MMO blogger and fellow SWG Legends player Napyet posted a video about a sudden burst of burnout he was feeling when...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2019
BlizzCon 2019 is behind us, finally, and we're winding down our coverage and trying to put a capstone on the experience. In this week's...
Ship of Heroes’ character creator beta is running a scavenger hunt event tonight
Ship of Heroes is making the most of its one-week character creator alpha, with multiple events and patches to keep everything humming. "We actually...
Global Chat: Fallout Last
Bethesda's busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is broken...
Ship of Heroes’ character creation tool beta has officially begun
The Ship of Heroes character creator tool beta has officially begun as of noon today, so superhero fans, now you have two chara builders...
Battle Bards Episode 155: FFXIV Shadowbringers
Welcome to the “Cursed Episode” of Battle Bards, where you’ll be risking bad luck and poor RNG rolls just by hearing it! But it...
Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’
Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs.
"Recently my game of choice,...
Perfect Ten: What I learned about ArcheAge Unchained as a complete newbie
As I was going through my first evening in ArcheAge Unchained, thanks to the new buy-to-play release, I was kicking myself for going into...
Why Fight lets players enter an open battlefield to duke it out for rewards in short game sessions
We'd like to introduce you to Why Fight by the three-person team of Build on Barren Studios (yes, those are actual titles thought up...
Global Chat: Starting over in ArcheAge
The (re)launch of ArcheAge Unchained is of significant interest to certain parties who are hoping that this "do over" finally will propel this sandbox...
