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Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
Valheim’s boardgame has kicked off its crowdfunding campaign
Valheim fans, be aware: The crowdfunding campaign for the official board game is now underway during the month of October. This is a one-to-four...
The Daily Grind: How many actions do you want to juggle at a time in an MMORPG?
Back in August, Heartless Gamer penned a blog about his "rule of 10." Here's how he defines it:
"s a player, I can manage 10...
Pax Dei plans to scale up to 1M building ‘pieces’ while explaining the system’s fiendish complexity
Pax Dei isn't merely an MMO sandbox looking to copy the crowd; it wants to excel in its building program. Mainframe Studios claims that...
Stars Reach talks Unity, AWS, and how it avoids ‘endless bowls of oatmeal’-esque terrain generation
This week's Stars Reach development blog is a bit more granular than previous releases, but gamers who are curious about the tech behind the...
Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?
Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
Conan Exiles Age of Heroes adds a dynamic needs system to your army of thralls
Funcom has dropped a new dev blog on Conan Exiles' Age of Heroes release, and it's all about thralls - you know, your NPC...
XLGames rebrands ArcheAge 2 as ‘online action RPG’ ArcheAge Chronicles, but it still sounds like an MMO
If you thought endless delays and the unceremonious sunset of ArcheAge were the worst things that could happen to ArcheAge 2, think again because...
Bohemia officially moves Vigor from PC early access to launch as Steam reviews tank
Bohemia Interactive's free-to-play multiplayer looter-shooter Vigor officially launched on PC this week after a console launch and then a run in early access for...
New World testers killed almost 40M overland mobs during last weekend’s Aeternum beta
At the conclusion of New World's Aeternum open beta earlier this week, Amazon promised a recap blog - and now on Friday, we finally...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat
A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote,
"Some of my most...
Ubisoft’s ‘XDefiant is not dying’ t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
If you had forgotten all about Ubisoft's newish shooter XDefiant, then you're not alone. It actually launched back in May and apparently did fine,...
Global Chat: The War Within continues WoW’s upward trend
We'll kick off this week's tour of MMO blogs with a diverse first impressions piece of The War Within by Kaylriene, who praises the...
Stars Reach’s technical testing provoked emergent landscaping, player creativity, and the lag monster
Playable Worlds - technical designer Light Bates this time, not Raph Koster - has dished out another dev blog on Stars Reach's pre-alpha playtest....
EA says it won’t replace The Sims 4 with a sequel as it preps fall playtest for multiplayer Project Rene
The fate of The Sims franchise in the last few years has been a little bit messy: EA has been working on what it...
Ultima Online wraps up eighth New Legacy beta weekend as launch window looms
Since the last time we checked in on Ultima Online's New Legacy beta testing, Broadsword has rolled out three more test weekends - and...
Global Chat: Star Trek Online’s content problem
As we kick off another edition of MMO gamer blogs talking about the titles that we love the most, we'll be visiting with Contains...
Raph Koster shows off Stars Reach’s updated world graphics in new footage
When Playable Worlds first fully revealed Stars Reach to the public earlier this summer, the one sticking point with a certain segment of MMO...
Massively Overthinking: When the big five MMORPGs have five big expansions in the same year
By the time you're reading this article, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light Seoul has officially launched on PC, and it marks an...
You can still play your old Nightingale characters offline even after Realms Rebuilt launches
We're just two days away from the launch of Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt, which is less an update and more a full-scale revamp and reset...
