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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...
Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
Elder Scrolls Online devs offer their favorite Scribing spell combos ahead of Gold Road
So here's the thing about the Elder Scrolls franchise's spellcrafting systems: Whenever I get my hands on them, imagination kind of flies out the...
Elder Scrolls Online discusses Gold Road’s Tales of Tribute update and Brazil community gathering
Last week, MOP's Justin alluded to Elder Scrolls Online's Tales of Tribute as one of the game's many systems features that were added and...
Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers...
EVE Online’s latest video details how the Equinox expansion will ‘reinvigorate’ nullsec
When the Equinox expansion arrives for EVE Online on June 11th, it'll dramatically overhaul and "reinvigorate" nullsec space - the game's designation for lawless...
Lost Ark appeases Echidna fans and sets server merges for June 5 – but not for NA West
Amazon's latest dev blog for Lost Ark is generating cheers from the playerbase, which is rare enough that you know we have to dig...
Kickstarted multiplayer cozygame Loftia talks minigames, NPCs, and accessibility
Mediumly multiplayer solarpunk cozy game Loftia closed out April with another dev blog about the team's progress this week.
Bolstered by last year's half-million-dollar Kickstarter,...
