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Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Neverwinter elaborates on upcoming combat companion balancing and prepares another Siege event
Companion NPCs can be a pretty invaluable tool when making your way through the battles of Neverwinter, but it looks like those combat companions...
Valheim teases Ashlands, a new critter, and a hat toggle
The last time Valheim foretold a "fairly meaty" patch, it turned out to be a nothingburger, so don't get too excited by today's dev...
Guild Wars 2’s patch adds WvW incentives, cosmetics randomizer, and class balancing
As promised, Guild Wars 2's class balancing update has arrived, and depending on which elite spec play you will love, hate, or love and...
Magic The Gathering Online releases Phyrexia All Will Be One expansion, says there’s been no data breach
Daybreak is promoting new acquisition Magic: The Gathering Online and its latest update, which rolled out last week and includes Phyrexia: All Will Be...
Guild Wars 2 appears to be dropping living world structure in favor of larger, more consistent updates
As promised, Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has issued its developer blog on long-term plans, and it's not just prattle: The studio is planning...
Global Chat: Where does WoW Classic go from here?
As Wrath Classic gets closer to its preordained expiration date, Priest with a Cause is asking a question that a lot of people are:...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
V Rising’s long-delayed first major update will finally arrive in May as a free expansion
So Stunlock Studios has good news and bad news for V Rising fans today. The good news is that it's talking more about its...
Choose My Adventure: Global Agenda provides a classic MMO ass-beating
I'll be one of the first to admit that in spite of my desire to get into a shooter MMO/multiplayer game this month, I'm...
Battle Bards Episode 221: LOTRO Before the Shadow
The power of the One Ring doesn’t just rule them all — it also brings Steff back from retirement! All three Battle Bards are...
Global Chat: The seductive appeal of New World
Over a year since its launch, New World remains as rocky and controversial as ever. And while it has its critics, Amazon's MMO also...
Massively Overthinking: What MMORPG content requires the most skill – and why?
Back in January, there was an inflammatory thread on the MMORPG subreddit that argued that anyone using rotation mods in endgame MMO content was...
The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games
What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
Global Chat: Is Dragonflight living up to expectations?
While first impressions are all well and good, the mark of a solid MMO release is whether or not it can sustain interest and...
Destiny 2’s day-long outage this week was the result of… a config error in a dev tool
Destiny 2 suffered a nasty outage earlier this week that took the game down more than 24 hours and even caused a rollback. Now,...
Pantheon’s January producer’s letter talks Aridola people, Avendyr’s Pass, and more
Say what you will about Pantheon's long development, but its monthly production newsletters arrive like clockwork. The January missive has now landed, and the...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most-played MMOs in 2023?
Last week in Massively Overthinking, we discussed our three most-played MMOs of 2022 - and whether we'd guessed right at the top of that...
Villagers & Heroes will finally launch interior housing in early 2023
We haven't checked in on indie MMO Villagers & Heroes since its Halloween festivities, and truthfully our last hard looks at the game came...
Mortal Online 2 recaps its first year of life, teases territory control and siege systems
Star Vault is celebrating a year since Mortal Online 2's steam launch (yes, the beginning of 2022 was pretty bonkers for MMO launches). "If...
