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City of Titans is crushing its sound and music design
Although City of Titans is lagging far behind where it should be in development (and release) by now, given that it was Kickstarted in...
Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...
Guild Wars 2 gives a full technical accounting of last year’s server rollbacks
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has been the subject of many side-eyes over the last few years, amassing a reputation as a studio with...
EVE Online announces the return of the 10v10 Alliance Tournament PvP event
After a two year-long hiatus, fans of official PvP tournament action in EVE Online as CCP Games announced the return of the Alliance Tournament...
Chronicles of Elyria tweaks NDA, locks down Reddit over death threats, and proposes NFT land trades
A week ago, Chronicles of Elyria backers sounded the alarm on a new NDA that Soulbound Studios was asking them to sign in conjunction...
Crowfall addresses launch issues, Australian campaigns, marketing, and the game’s first post-launch update
Crowfall's Executive Producer Gordon Walton has penned a fresh dev blog this afternoon, one week in to the game's launch, to discuss the state...
Diablo 2 Resurrected adds QOL and accessibility features ahead of August ‘early access beta’
Blizzard has posted a hefty Diablo 2 Resurrected dev blog this week that covers everything from how the team's implementing alpha feedback to the...
Global Chat: Exuberant over SWTOR’s combat styles
The recent announcement of this fall's Legacy of the Sith expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic has (as expansion announcements tend to do)...
Massively Overthinking: Which of the summer MMO launches captured your time and attention?
OK folks: We're in the thick of summer now, a summer that's seen an endless parade of MMO launches, mobile ports, expansions, classic servers,...
Elyon expands its gear system, fights RMT with new market mechanics
Where would an MMORPG be without a gear system? Lost. Alone. Frightened. Clinging to the side of an iceberg of indifference, adrift in the...
Lost Ark outlines its five base classes, says more will come after launch
Are you ready to play some Lost Ark? Whoa, whoa there, champ -- it's not out quite yet. We appreciate your enthusiasm and wild-eyed...
Guild Wars 2 offers Rising Flames for free, previews next week’s legendary armory launch
Guild Wars 2 fans are still reeling from the revelation that End of Dragons has been delayed into next year and that Colin Johanson...
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore talks about the challenges and benefits of its newly installed weather system
It's not always sunny in Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore. Namely because the game now has a day/night cycle, but also because the devs introduced...
Battle Bards Episode 196: Project Gorgon
This time around, the Battle Bards cruise into the indie MMO known as Project Gorgon to see what musical landscape is being concocted in...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMO house of all time?
You folks know I love MMO housing systems, and in fact, we've been crowning the MMOs with the best housing systems for years. But...
Life Beyond shares the step-by-step process of clearing out a texturing bug
The devs of survival title Life Beyond noticed that some rock surfaces had developed odd black spots on them. That means one of two...
Ultima Online is streaming more New Legacy reveals this afternoon [Updated with summary]
Broadsword has been talking up Ultima Online's incoming New Legacy server since the game's 23rd birthday stream last fall. So far, we know that...
Book of Travels explains its no-quest design philosophy
In case you never really clocked this, one of the many reasons that Book of Travels will be different than your typical MMO is...
TitanReach attempts to put its controversies in the past with new details on early access development
Indie MMO TitanReach has had a strange run to date. It caught our attention in 2020, when it launched a $430,000 US Kickstarter, which...
Vampire survivalbox V Rising highlights its gothic-horror atmospheric feel
Hey, remember V Rising? It's Stunlock Studios' upcoming multiplayer survival sandbox - yeah, the Battlerite folks. The vampire-themed title just got a new dev...
