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April Fools’ Day around the MMO world, 2025 edition
Love it or hate it, today is April Fools' Day, and the MMORPG industry is not about to miss this epic chance to troll you. We'll be rounding up the best gags and events around the MMO world today. Remember, believe nothing!
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can actually afford to buy eggs
I don't know about you folks, but eggs are a staple protein in my household, and these past months watching egg prices soar upward...
RuneScape Dragonwilds is Jagex’s new co-op survival game, coming to early access this spring
Jagex has officially announced another game in the RuneScape franchise: RuneScape Dragonwilds. Before you get too excited, it's not a new MMORPG; it's an...
Wisdom of Nym: First impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Seekers of Eternity content
Here we are again with a new Final Fantasy XIV patch, and while there is a lot of interesting stuff happening on the story...
MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left for Camelot Unchained?
If there's any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven't met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment...
Craig Morrison’s ‘horse mystery’ MMORPG gets a new trailer and its official name: Equinox Homecoming
We appreciate how Craig Morrison's Horse Mystery MMO sounds a bit like a psychedelic prog rock group, but it's not; it's the elevator pitch...
WoW Factor: Evaluating World of Warcraft’s allied races seven years later
At the tail end of an exciting expansion cycle, World of Warcraft: Legion saved one last big surprise for the community. In 2018's Patch...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play isn’t always the MMO that was designed
There was, for a brief period of time, a window when World of Warcraft was moving toward a more deterministic gear structure that de-emphasized...
‘We like to make really big games’: John Smedley teases Distinct Possibility by namedropping PlanetSide 2 devs
Our regular readers and followers of the MMO genre already know the name of John Smedley. He was the former head of Sony Online...
Lord of the Rings Online plans for two additional 64-bit realms, indicates housing reactivation is coming soon
While Lord of the Rings Online's new 64-bit servers were touted as being capable of holding a substantially greater amount of players, SSG is...
Stars Reach Kickstarter ends with over $750K raised – plus fresh investment and a new vampire species
Stars Reach, Raph Koster's grand sci-fi MMORPG sandbox adventure, has officially funded on Kickstarter this afternoon, soaring past $739,000 in crowdfunding with over 5,200...
‘It’s all coming back, just as you left it’: Fawkes hypes the return of Defiance with a new teaser video
Last week, we got the surprising but welcome news that Fawkes Games is unsunsetting Defiance, Trion Worlds' old "transmedia synergy MMO, come April 18th....
Blizzard will rez hardcore WoW Classic characters after a DDOS wiped out OnlyFangs streamers
A fascinating firestorm of events and controversy erupted in WoW Classic's hardcore scene over the past 24 hours, starting with a DDOS attack that...
Recapping the Warcraft 30th anniversary tour’s Toronto stop
Despite the event selling out virtually instantaneously, I managed to be one of the lucky few to snag a ticket to the Toronto stop...
Dune Awakening has officially begun preorders ahead of its May 20 launch
As teased over the weekend, Funcom has now officially begun preorders for its survival MMO Dune Awakening, which is formally launching on May 20th.
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Marvel Heroes’ emulator project has a playable test server in Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
When last we checked in on the Marvel Heroes emulator project, the developers were basically still in the "make code go and upload to...
LOTRO Legendarium: The virtuous world of Middle-earth
There are plenty of fantasy brands out there to suit any preference. If you arranged them on a spectrum, you might start at cozy...
Dune Awakening confirms $50 box price with DLC and a direct launch with no early access
Before you know it, the May 20th launch date for survival MMO Dune: Awakening will be upon us all, but perhaps you were wondering...
Warframe of Mind: First impressions of Techrot Encore
Here is the initial column I wrote about the most recent Warframe patch in its totality: On Tuesday, I did not have Secondary Merciless...
Vague Patch Notes: If you have my money, you’d better have my video game
So over the last couple of weeks Lord of the Rings Online has made itself quite a mess to clean up. It's not the...
