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Perfect Ten: 10 enemies we need to fight more in MMORPGs
When I wrote up the contents of every MMORPG bestiary, I stuck mostly with concepts rather than specifics, aside from dragons and slimes. There...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2021: Blizzard MAUs hold steady at 26M as Diablo II Resurrected drives revenues
Welcome back to our quarterly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials, the release day of which has become one of the schadenfreude highlights of each...
Vitae Aeternum: The cold water splash of New World’s Amrine Excavation and early game dungeon mechanics
Could a single poorly designed dungeon encounter kill a whole-ass MMO for me? I didn't think it was possible, but then I entered the...
20 tips for getting a good start in Fallen Earth’s apocalypse
It's certainly not every day that one of your favorite MMOs of all time comes back from the dead. When that happens, friends, it's...
17-year-old World of Warcraft announces a ‘community council’ for diverse player feedback
Player councils in MMORPGs are a pretty old concept, prominent in games like EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and Star Wars Galaxies....
Fallen Earth Classic sees ‘more players online at the same time than any time in the last six years’
Maybe all MMOs should be taken offline for a couple of years to increase their popularity when they are brought back? This wasn't the...
New World is suffering from yet another exploit, this one revolving around malicious chat code
The New World community is becoming absolute experts at finding bugs and exploits in the game, prodded on by Amazon's apparent willingness to provide...
First Impressions: Elyon continues to blend in with the MMORPG gaming furniture
After about 30 or so levels and an entirely different class, I can pretty much say with a fair bit of confidence that my...
Halloween fun across the MMORPG genre, 2021 edition
Over the last couple of weeks, we've been rounding up all the Halloween events descending upon our favorite MMORPGs and MMO-adjacent titles, and there...
WoW Factor: BlizzCon is BlizzGone, so what’s next for WoW?
If you needed a sign of just how bad things were getting at Blizzard HQ, that sign came with the announcement that BlizzConline was...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Specter, Untamed, and Mechanist
It seems like just yesterday that we were getting hyped for the Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons' reveal stream. While we still have...
Activision-Blizzard partly meets some worker demands, dramatically cuts Bobby Kotick’s compensation
At 5:15 a.m. EDT this morning, Activision-Blizzard's PR team dropped a lengthy letter from CEO Bobby Kotick, addressing everything from the ongoing pandemic to...
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...
Fallen Earth Classic is definitely happening, soon, and it’ll be free-to-play to boot
Last week, we noted that Little Orbit CEO Matt Scott had teased the possibility of a Fallen Earth Classic. As of today, it's more...
New World halts transfers, warns gold dupe exploiters as players call for a rollback
Turns out the gold duping bug in New World wasn't just a rumor: Amazon confirmed that the transfers enabled yesterday were allowing some folks...
World of Warcraft officially announces patch 9.1.5 release date of November 2
Earlier today we noted that World of Warcraft's most recent build for patch 9.1.5 was marked as a release candidate, which in and of itself...
Guild Wars 2 reveals the Engineer’s Mechanist spec, details next week’s beta
ArenaNet is taking the wraps off its ninth and final elite spec for Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons today: It's the Engineer's Mechanist,...
Krafton’s Elyon officially launches in the west today, F2P under Kakao’s banners
It's not every year that we get a whole bunch of MMORPG launches, but Elyon will help make 2021 a special year by adding...
Guild Wars 2 reveals the bunny-thumping Untamed, the Ranger’s End of Dragons elite spec
Today's Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons elite spec reveal is going to be of particular note to Classic Guild Wars fans: It's the...
New World’s server transfers finally begin tomorrow if initial tests go well
More than three weeks after its rocky launch, Amazon's New World is finally ready to open server transfers - although it's not going to...
