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Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle delivers a prototype peek of Project Ghost
It may not have an official name yet, but Fantastic Pixel Castle's Ghost has a face of sorts. This week, the Greg Street-run studio...
Global Chat: What should we be thinking about Guild Wars 3?
The surprising (and not surprising) news that ArenaNet has the go-ahead from NCsoft to develop Guild Wars 3 sent ripples of interest, confusion, and...
Throne & Liberty’s next global beta remains under NDA, tests combat and trading
We're just a week away from Throne & Liberty's next big global test run, and ahead of the event, Amazon has released a dev...
The MOP Up: Fractured Veil allows for PvE-only servers
Post-apocalyptic survival game Fractured Veil previewed some upcoming features such as farms, new spawn locations, and -- get ready for this -- PvE-only servers....
Massively Overthinking: Lies about MMOs we thought were true
A totally not-gaming video inspired this week's Massively Overthinking: Hank Green's video called I Believed These Four Lies. Green elaborates on a quad of...
Cozy MMO Palia handwaves its bizarre beta obfuscation on the grounds that it’s free-to-play
Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6's cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and...
New World’s buffed cross-world expeditions LFG helped players suck less at Empyrean Forge (nice)
If you're recovered from this week's Forged in Aeternum video, in which New World's devs explained that they still can't tell you what exactly...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most polarizing topic in your favorite MMORPG?
I was playing Lord of the Rings Online last weekend when my server naturally veered off into one of its favorite discussions: whether Moria...
Global Chat: EverQuest hits the quarter-century mark
There's no way that The Ancient Gaming Noob would miss out on EverQuest's 25th anniversary: "So there is a lot going on if you...
Star Citizen’s 2022 financials offer additional information about investors and their expected returns
When Star Citizen finally elected to post its 2022 financial report to the UK government (and in related reporting since), you might have seen...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 fashion tips to make your LOTRO character pop
Forget raids or the epic books or even Bingo Boffin; we all know that the true endgame in Lord of the Rings Online is...
Massively Overthinking: Are survival games the new MMO?
A few Overthinkings ago, a MOP commenter said something that seemed very simple but still hit me really hard, to the point that I'm...
Lost Ark previews the Breaker coming March 20 as US West merge downtime continues
If you happen to be on one of the merging servers in Lost Ark's US West region, you probably have a bit of time...
Vampire survival game V Rising is finally launching out of early access on May 8
We've been gently ribbing V Rising about its extended stay in early access for almost two years now, but in its defense, Stunlock Studios...
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft’s ‘bold experiment’ work?
A tantalizing question mark on World of Warcraft's 2024 roadmap has a lot of the community talking and guessing, and MMO blogger Kaylriene looked...
Here’s how Elder Scrolls Online is compensating players for the Orsinium DLC freebie bug
Elder Scrolls Online's big Orsinium DLC giveaway this past week hasn't gone off as smoothly as ZeniMax Online Studios hoped. The original plan was...
Massively Overthinking: Are we ‘optimizing the fun out’ of MMOs?
MMO dev Damion Schubert recently retweeted a thread penned by a user named Zarathustra that presents our Massively Overthinking discussion for the week. Now,...
Mediumly multiplayer Loftia, bolstered by investor funding, talks quests, energy, and sustainability
We've had our eye on solarpunk-themed "mediumly multiplayer" sandbox Loftia since last year, when Aussie developer Qloud scored a whopping $1.27M on Kickstarter to...
New World’s Winter Rune Forge trial includes parkour and puzzles – but no LFG functionality
Say it five times fast: Winter Rune Forge Trial. That's the formal name of New World's next 10-person endgame raid, coming as part of...
Book of Travels tests a ‘complete overhaul’ of its combat system
When the Kickstarted Book of Travels first released, it was marketed as a micro-MMO that skewed hard away from the typical DIKUMUD combat format....