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Crowfall introduces mega deeds and panels for tricking out your Eternal Kingdom castles
Set aside your castles in the air: Crowfall's castles are built on solid ground. ArtCraft's most recent dev blog is all about them, or...
Bless Online’s 4th of July patch adds new PvE dailies and a PvP battleground this evening
Live in Bless Online on the holiday today is the 1.3.0.0 patch as promised, with its two big chunks of new content. PvE players are...
Bless Online’s 4th of July patch offers content for PvE and PvP players
It's a big week for Bless Online, as Neowiz is prepping an update due to hit right smack in the middle of the 4th...
Global Chat: A starting point for WoW Classic
The recent announcement of WoW Classic's starting point -- Patch 1.12 -- started to make the prospect of this legacy server a lot more...
Prosperous Universe tackles ship orbits and landings
When you're creating a space sim that involves both space and ground content, then you're going to have to figure out a way to...
Battle Bards Episode 123: Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
With eagerness in their hearts, the Battle Bards rush toward another Guild Wars 2 soundtrack, ready to bask in the aural glory of this...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
Lord of the Rings Online plans a ‘perfect picnic’ with this week’s summer festival
Lord of the Rings Online's summer festival is coming back on June 28th, and this year the event has a couple of exciting surprises...
Fortnite: Pollsters and academics examine purchases, pay-to-win, and motivation vs. addiction
Remember the old adage that less than 10% of a free-to-play playerbase pay for the other 90%? A poll conducted by LendEDU and Pollfish...
Worlds Adrift postpones this week’s patch, The Guardian compares it to Fortnite
Don't expect a patch this week in Worlds Adrift: Bossa's delayed it to July 3rd. In its latest dev blog, the studio says it's...
Trion throws open Defiance 2050’s gates for another beta round this weekend
Trion is running yet another beta round for Defiance 2050 as the reboot heads to open testing on PC this weekend, starting tomorrow afternoon...
Global Chat: The fallout of Fallout 76
Bethesda's E3 reveal of Fallout 76 had many gamers and franchise fans talking, no more so than out among MMO bloggers. After all, taking...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer ‘work’ simulation MMOs to more fantastic game worlds?
In the comments of my piece on Raph Koster's book last week, a commenter brought up the idea that mimicking the real world in...
Global Chat: The best of both worlds
If you have ever played more than one MMORPG, the thought has probably crossed your mind that you would love to see your favorite...
Dual Universe’s latest pre-alpha patch adds markets, scanning, and mining
Let's all take a moment for an appreciative round of applause to any studio that is considerate enough to post monthly round-ups of games...
Legends of Aria makes combat more sensible and nerfs fast travel in its latest update
It's a big day for Legends of Aria and its beta testers, as the game is undergoing some pretty meaty changes to combat and...
Blade and Soul throws the kitchen sink into next week’s patch
You know it's a really good and meaty content patch when a studio can get more than two blog posts out of it. Blade...
‘Magic through serendipity’: Raph Koster on the glorious mess that was Ultima Online
I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too.
That's...
Lord of the Rings Online continues to fine-tune class adjustments
How many number twos can Standing Stone Games put after a Lord of the Rings Online patch before it collapses from the sheer decimal...
Battle Bards Episode 122: Happy town
In peaceful villages and bubbly burgs, you just know that there’s bound to be an abundance of happy music! Whenever the Battle Bards regroup...
