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Massively Overthinking: The New World Aeternum debacle
You know that feeling when you can see a trainwreck coming, but you know you can't do anything to stop it or even warn...
Global Chat: So many questions about Guild Wars 2’s housing
With the news that Guild Wars 2 is adding homesteads in its next expansion, Nerdy Bookahs is not alone in asking a whole ton...
SGF 2024: Airship sandbox Echoes of Elysium releases new trailer about the fun of sky captaincy
Ready to take to the virtual skies in your own hand-crafted airship? After its initial reveal earlier this spring, Echoes of Elysium is making...
Global Chat: FFXIV’s out-of-control cutscene scene
Here's a terrifying and fascinating fact: Did you know that Final Fantasy XIV's cutscenes now total up to 159 hours of non-interactive, viewable-only content?
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Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
Guild Wars 2 previews Janthir Wilds’ spears for Guardians, Rangers, and Necromancers
When ArenaNet told Guild Wars 2 fans that it would be expounding soon on how Janthir Wilds' new land spears will work for different...
Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds land spears are actually part of a new mastery line
I know you all want to hear about Guild Wars 2's new Homestead housing system, revealed yesterday as part of the Janthir Wilds expansion...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO guides you find in the wild
Look, folks. I'm a simple man, but I figure out how to handle my own things. I put my pants on one leg at...
Guild Wars 2 teases land spears, builds on Secrets of the Obscure’s lessons for next expansion
But Bree, you say, Guild Wars 2 already has spears. And you're right! Spears as an underwater weapon have been in the game since...
Whatever happened to pixel art MMORPG Drakantos?
It's been a few minutes since we checked in on the development of Drakantos, a free-to-play pixel art MMORPG we first covered last fall....
Global Chat: V Rising isn’t the Diablo clone you might expect
In An Age tucked into the bloody meal that is V Rising following the vampiric survival game's launch and found it a mixed bag...
Nightingale recaps its new character creation additions – including its starter loadouts and ‘extravagant’ digs
If you know one thing about Nightingale's patch week, it's that it finally introduced an offline mode after much player clamor. But that wasn't...
‘No more punching trees and building shacks,’ says multiplayer survivalbox Echoes of Elysium
Loric Games' Echoes of Elysium has released another dev blog - quite a bit earlier than expected, as you might recall head of production...
Massively Overthinking: Does challenging solo content belong in MMORPGs?
Star Wars The Old Republic's plan to implement new solo challenge content called Ventures in its Desperate Defiance patch raised more than one eyebrow...
Elder Scrolls Online deep-dives Gold Road’s Lucent Citadel raid and Mirrormoor Incursions
A week and a half out from the launch of Gold Road on PC, ZeniMax Online Studios is previewing the big group content en...
Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones plans season 2 endgame revamp with two new solo PvE modes
Last week, we got a bit of a tease from Ubisoft's Skull and Bones as it wound down its first quarterly season of play,...
Tarisland says male mages and female paladins are the next step in gender-unlocking
We're down to the last of Tencent's announced dev blogs for Tarisland focusing on how the studio has tweaked the game between the last...
Lost Ark outlines plan for merging South American region into US East
Amazon has been talking up a big global merge for Lost Ark for the last few weeks, and now, we're finally getting some hard...
Tencent discusses plans for Tarisland’s experience, raid, class, and energy optimization
Apparently all we had to do is complain a lil bit about Tarisland going quiet because this week, Tencent has opened the floodgates. Just...
