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RuneScape’s Jagex confirms it’s being sold for the fourth time in eight years as it talks up ‘forever games’
Rumors from earlier this week that suggested RuneScape company Jagex was once again for sale have now been proven correct, thanks to a formal...
Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
Lunar New Year events around the MMORPG world, 2024 edition
Would you believe that this is only our third year with enough MMORPG Lunar New Year events that a roundup is necessary? A decade...
Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release
Ubisoft's long, long delayed pirate "co-op pirate open world action RPG" MMO Skull & Bones has finally set sail with a soft launch into...
Into the Super-Verse: What’s wrong with City of Heroes’ Incarnate system?
It hasn't been all that long since I said that what City of Heroes needs to focus on right now is not endgame content,...
Disney invests $1.5B into Epic Games with plans to create a ‘huge Disney universe’ in Fortnite
Seeing Disney's various IPs in Fortnite isn't exactly news by this point, but it appears as if there will be a whole lot more...
FTC files a complaint against Microsoft following Activision Blizzard layoffs
When Microsoft outlined its plans for what would happen following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the things that the company stated was...
Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two
Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...
RuneScape’s Jagex is apparently being sold yet again, this time to a private equity firm for over $1B
Stop me if you've heard this one: RuneScape company Jagex is for sale yet again.
Back in September, we first caught the rumor that Jagex's...
Microsoft will require Final Fantasy XIV players to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass in order to play the game
It's tucked away in the announcement that Final Fantasy XIV's beta on the Xbox Series X|S starts on February 21st, but the announcement does...
Final Fantasy XIV’s open beta for Xbox X|S starts February 21 – here’s how to get in
This time it's for real instead of a mistakenly early announcement: The Xbox X|S open beta test for Final Fantasy XIV has locked down...
Into the Super-Verse: Early SOs pose a perplexing problem in City of Heroes Homecoming
Last week, I talked a bit about how to gear yourself up in City of Heroes. Just yesterday, Bree gave an example for how...
First Impressions: Palworld copied all the right homework to graduate as its own enjoyable game
You know how the back of a box of Hamburger Helper or other boxed dinner mixes encourage you to toss in extra ingredients to...
Casually Classic: When will WoW Classic stop adding expansions?
This spring, the era of Wrath Classic will officially come to an end when the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch hits ahead of the summer launch....
Vague Patch Notes: Why we drift away from MMORPGs we still love
Why did I stop playing Star Trek Online? Was it because there was some change made to the game that made it no longer...
The Soapbox: Casuals and soloers need challenging MMO content too
In a recent press Q&A around the announcement of Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road chapter, Zenimax creative director Rich Lambert appeared to dismiss the...
PSA: Valheim’s Discord and two Iron Gate Discord accounts have apparently been hacked
Bad news bears for survival sandbox Valheim tonight, as apparently hackers have taken over the game's Discord - as well as some of the...
Johanna Faries is the new president of Blizzard following Mike Ybarra’s ouster
Following last week's layoffs, it didn't seem likely that the potentially frozen throne at the head of Blizzard Entertainment would remain vacant for long....
Interview: Survival MMO Age of Water on monetization, sandbox play, and the Q1 early access launch
Way back at the end of 2020, we first caught wind of a new sandbox called Age of Water: Developed by Three Whales Studio...
Tamriel Infinium: The history of Elder Scrolls games (before and after Elder Scrolls Online)
There's nothing quite like that feeling when you first dip your toes into a particular game only to discover that it's part of a...
