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Vague Patch Notes: When MMOs pit their playerbase against itself
Today's Vague Patch Notes is about something weird that I feel like someone should definitely done something about a long time before now. It's...
WoW Factor: So let’s talk about World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight leak
Sometimes you just get handed a column, you know? No, you probably don't; you probably don't work in this insane profession. The point is that...
Interview: Scoping out Fractured Online’s closed beta content and update plans
By the time you're reading this, Fractured Online has already begun its closed beta phase, but before then I was granted the opportunity to...
MassivelyOP’s guide to 13 MMORPGs that you can play on Macs
Until I got my first Macbook this past December, I admit that I never really paid attention to what MMOs could be played on...
Wargaming will suffer ‘substantial losses’ in corporate exit from Russia and Belarus
Over a month ago, at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, MMO studio Wargaming was already making a bold statement about the burgeoning...
Rumor: World of Warcraft’s next expansion is called Dragonflight according to website code leaks
It should be known by now that dataminers will go to any lengths and plumb any digital depths they can to discover what's coming...
Gamigo says RIFT’s ‘great first update’ is still happening, still won’t acknowledge layoffs
Readers will recall that at the top of the week, we reported the unfortunate news that Gamigo had conducted widespread layoffs from multiple MMO...
April Fools’ Day around the MMO world, 2022 edition
Whether you love it or dread it, April Fools' Day is happening everywhere, specifically to annoy copyeditors who have to fix that dang apostrophe...
The Perfect Ten: 10 MMO NPCs as muffins
You’ve all seen those memes or Twitter threads that try to link celebrities or people to food items or other inanimate objects, but I’m...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s open world is not the place for hardcore content
If you're paying any attention to Guild Wars 2, you have, by now, no doubt heard the debate over the Battle for the Jade...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s post-End of Dragons roadmap
Last week, we got a tsunami of good news from Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet. Studio directors Colin Johanson and John "JT" Taylor, along...
LOTRO Legendarium: Should LOTRO’s raids be made accessible to all?
Despite playing Lord of the Rings Online since beta and covering it professionally since 2010, there is a big part of the game that...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s slow march to redemption
In the rushes of excitement over Lost Ark and End of Dragons, New World seems to have fallen off the radar a bit. As...
Gamigo has suffered yet another round of layoffs, including some RIFT and Trove staff
We've got more bad news for fans of RIFT and Gamigo's other MMOs: RIFT's community manager, CM Vilya, announced on Discord Friday that she...
Another worker lodges a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard
The lawsuits continue to pile up around Activision-Blizzard. Readers will recall that back in December, an Activision-Blizzard worker identified as Christine held a press...
Into the Super-Verse: No, I do not want Daybreak’s Marvel MMO
Greetings, true believers! This particular column is actually not the result of reader requests but specifically from our editor, who has long noted that...
GDC 2022: Blockchain, NFTs, and play-to-earn scams go mainstream
It's GDC again, guys, and it's... woof, a rough-looking year. While we had some really interesting panels during COVID, the first in-person event (which...
Guild Wars 2 promises fourth expansion, brings back first Living World season as proper episodes
ArenaNet has just dropped a press release and dev blog full of good news for Guild Wars 2 and its players. Let's go over...
Fight or Kite: End of Dragons did little for the state of Guild Wars 2 PvP
Anyone who’s been paying attention to Guild Wars 2 lately knows that the recent release of End of Dragons brought with it a whole...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online takes much-needed steps forward
I don't know about you, Lord of the Rings Online fans, but I am really, really digging these quarterly producer's letters. It feels like...
