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MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...
Massively Overthinking: The undeath of the MMORPG genre
Last week, there was a provocative thread on the MMORPG subreddit that subverted the tired idea that the genre is "dead." It's not, u/Selphea...
Harvesting and crafting will soon grant experience in Crowfall
February - and Crowfall's big overhaul - are inching closer, and ArtCraft has been teasing some of the big changes it's making with the...
Magic Legends deep-dives the mechanics and style of the Geomancer class
Still grumpy about the downscaling of Magic Legends into more of a multiplayer game than the MMO originally announced? Yeah, we are too. But...
Upcoming MMORPG Corepunk highlights its world and races in new artwork
Back in December, we got a peek at a new Unity MMORPG from Dutch studio Artificial Core called Corepunk. Even newly announced, it got...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMORPG content roadmaps
You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you're a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before...
Battle Bards Episode 160: MMO cover songs vol. 2
For the first time since Episode 50, the Battle Bards crew returns to the theme of cover songs of MMO tracks. Several extremely musicians...
Global Chat: Why player representation in games matters
The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...
New World just took a hard turn away from a PvP slugfest, and hardcore PvPers are not happy
Even knowing it was slated to arrive, I was still surprised last night when Amazon Game Studios dropped New World's latest dev blog well...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Agonia Lands, Decentraland, Fable Valley, Bloodstone Online, Hunter’s Arena Legends
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of - or have totally forgotten about until now!
First up...
The fun when some dude yoinks an airport map screen to play Apex Legends
Look, sometimes you just need to play video games real bad.
The original story appears to be gone from the radio station's blog, but the...
Lord of the Rings Online players remember Christopher Tolkien
Kites soared and fireworks burst overhead last night in Lord of the Rings Online, as the player community gathered together to pay tribute to...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever
This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall's J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became...
Grim Dawn recounts last year’s updates and drops teases for future updates
The middle of January seems a bit late for a retrospective, but then again perhaps Grim Dawn is subscribing to the "better late than...
Neverwinter previews its hellish Vallenhas transformation in Infernal Descent
We've been teasing Neverwinter for the over-the-top hellishness of its Infernal Descent campaign, and we're pleased to say that will not end with this...
Here’s what’s changing in Dual Universe’s economy when alpha 3 launches
Let's talk about money. Space money. Dual Universe dev Novaquark tweeted out a blog post that almost flew under the radar, and it shouldn't...
Inferna adds a new dungeon, balances combat, promises 2020 roadmap
So what's new with the early access MMORPG Inferna, whose early access path we've been chronicling since November? Well, there's an update that kicked...
Neverwinter shows off some of the fiendish rewards waiting in Infernal Descent
You wouldn't adventure into the hells unless there was some shiny loot waiting, would you? Luckily, the Infernal Descent content update coming to Neverwinter...
Global Chat: How fast should combat be in MMOs?
The speed of combat engagements in MMORPGs -- as rare as they may be -- was the topic du jour on a couple of...
GTAO, Apex Legends, Warframe, and H1Z1 are among PlayStation’s most-downloaded games of 2019
One of the frustrations we always have when reporting on playerbase size in the MMO industry is that the console market is way more...
