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Dual Universe offers tips to aid with construct excavations needed for the Demeter update
Dual Universe has mentioned a couple of times before that the incoming Demeter update would be making changes to the game's geometry, requiring players...
Global Chat: Do you suffer from FOMO when an MMO expansion comes out?
With Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker on the horizon, there's an undeniable wave of FOMO -- fear of missing out -- that's sweeping through the...
New World announces server merges are ‘on the horizon,’ stays stubborn on mini-map issue
You may have fought angry specters, old gods, and even a raid boss or two, but you're really going to have to gear up...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Albion Online examines Lands Awakened’s guild PvP, opens influencer program
Albion Online's Lands Awakened update is obviously going to bring some big changes to the PvP meta when it launches on November 24th -...
Blade and Soul breaks down the Demonsbane system arriving with tomorrow’s update
Tomorrow, NCSoft is adding some new content to Blade and Soul, including the Aerodrome dungeon, the centerpiece of the game's Demonsbane system that promises...
Wakfu’s next big update features a level cap increase and five new adventure islands
It's not every day when the bizarrest MMORPG in town gets a preview for a major update, but that day arrived this week as...
New World addresses combat changes, mass reports, world transfers, and more
Amazon has made good on its promise to improve its communication with the New World fanbase, as it's made a rash of comments on...
EVE Online’s latest newbie experience revamp is paying off as CCP Games dabbles in NFTs
EVE Online's latest dev blog has a few teases and backpats in store for denizens of the biggest sci-fi sandbox MMORPG in town. CCP...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
New World addresses economic deflation, trade post linking, cross-region transfers in 4400-word post
Late last night, Amazon published a dev blog addressing even more of the major topics facing the New World community - including promises about...
New World addresses exploits, communication lapses, and goals for its PvP systems
New World has stolen headlines for weeks now thanks to its launch problems, which have been compounded by its parade of exploits and communication...
Battle Bards Episode 203: The music of mobile MMOs
For this week’s episode, the Battle Bards turn their attention to an oft-neglected realm of MMO music — that of mobile titles. Will Steff...
Book of Travels fixes dead NPC poets, features the pesky Omin
Newly arrived to early access tiny MMO Book of Travels posted an equally tiny patch this week. Studio Might and Delight says it's added...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons challenge mode strike missions will ‘feel like proper raid bosses’
If strike missions in Guild Wars 2 are your jam, you're going to want to take a peek at the dev blog ArenaNet's Encounters...
Lost Ark plots a course for beta, lays out its monetization and currency plans
Amazon-published Korean MMORPG Lost Ark published two documents for prospective players this week, addressing both how the upcoming closed beta will play out as...
Blizzard has now fully canceled BlizzConline, originally slated for early 2022
Well, today's Blizzard news isn't going to surprise anyone: The company has canceled its upcoming BlizzConline event.
The online event was originally set for early...
Elder Scrolls Online previews the armory system coming in Update 32
We're just a week away from Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands drop on PC, but it's always worth remembering that the DLC isn't the only...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on who really owns all the stuff inside your video games
Who owns the stuff inside video games? That's the subject of Raph Koster's latest blog. Koster, of course, is a long-time MMO developer, and...
