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WoW Factor: Optimal choices in MMO talent trees don’t justify removing them
So there's this funny persistent thing that goes around when it comes to talent trees in World of Warcraft. A certain coalition of players...
Lord of the Rings Online’s next two zones leak as Embracer buys up rights to the LOTR franchise
There's a big announcement on the horizon for Lord of the Rings Online -- but it may have just been leaked from the game's...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that took aim at World of Warcraft
The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...
Kickstarted MMO Untamed Isles ‘goes into hiatus’ after devs lose funds thanks to crypto market
Just last month we put a spotlight on Untamed Isles, a promising Pokemon-like MMO that raised $528,804 from a 2021 Kickstarter campaign. In fact,...
Sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is officially launching next month, six years after its $630K Kickstarter
It's been a long strange trip for the Kickstarted sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Dual Universe, studded with unusual monetization and the ousting of its founder...
Guild Wars 2 is finally launching on Steam next week – just in time for its 10th birthday
So you folks remember when Guild Wars 2 was planning to launch on Steam, right? It was originally announced way back in 2020 and...
Wisdom of Nym: Everything we learned about Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.2
To the surprise of basically no one who closely watches Final Fantasy XIV's overall patch progression, patch 6.2 is arriving on August 23rd. That's...
Richard Garriott’s NFT MMO has a website and a name: Iron and Magic
You may remember that space tourist Richard Garriott, fresh off the utter collapse of Shroud of the Avatar, had threatened us all with another...
First Impressions: Tower of Fantasy is Genshin Impact in a PSO2 costume (and it’s actually pretty good)
Let's go ahead and get this out of the way: Tower of Fantasy, the new shared world RPG from publisher Level Infinite and developer...
WoW Factor: The problem with borrowed power was never new systems
There's a bit of cognitive disconnect that I notice is still tripping up some particular fans of World of Warcraft even at this point....
NCsoft Q2 2022: Throne and Liberty delayed to 2023, Aion 2 in dev, Guild Wars 2 booming
If you were skeptical about NCsoft's Q1 financial report and its confidence about still managing to get Throne and Liberty out the door in...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.2, Buried Memory, goes live on August 23
The next major drop of story and content for Final Fantasy XIV is just about 11 days away, as Naoki Yoshida announced during the...
Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile’s Lake of Kalandra expansion launches August 19
Mirror of Kalandra. Path of Exile players know this is a super rare currency item that has been in the game since the beginning....
Path of Exile 2’s beta will debut at ExileCon 2023 next July
Two things that Path of Exile fans have been waiting for with bated breath are Path of Exile 2 and the next ExileCon. And...
Nightingale announces a delay of its early access launch to the first half of 2023
We've all been left wondering about the possibilities of Nightingale, the realm-traveling Victorian-themed survival sandbox from developer Inflexion that first debuted at last year's...
Vague Patch Notes: No, Little Orbit has not solved the MMO blockchain problem
It looks like we have indeed lived long enough to see the heroes become the villains: Little Orbit, which we once lionized for saving...
Perfect Ten: Small features that still make RIFT awesome
When I re-installed RIFT this past month, I knew I was setting myself up for heartache. It is, after all, one of my all-time...
Rumor: NCsoft may publish Throne and Liberty globally through Amazon Games
Remember when NCsoft's first quarter financial report noted that Throne and Liberty would be arriving to the west this year? "According to sources quoted...
Final Fantasy XIV is a bright spot on Square Enix’s otherwise bleak quarterly report
Square Enix's latest financial report is a textbook example of "good news, bad news" for players. The bad news is that the studio had...
Lord of the Rings Online is working on ‘remastered’ graphics, delving, and alt leveling path
While Lord of the Rings Online is down a producer, it still has an executive producer overseeing the vision of the long-running MMO. Yesterday,...
