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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned that Destiny's Sword is dropping a Steam demo on Monday as a tie-in with Veterans...

Yesterday we covered Activision-Blizzard's third quarter financial results, which were... not good. While WoW Classic drove a subscription spike and saw Blizzard's...

Activision-Blizzard has not had the best year. In February, the company saw record-high revenues and promptly laid off 800 employees, leading to widespread...

Whether the reports of Fallout 1st players being harassed in Fallout 76 are highly fabricated or not, a large cluster of Fallout...

I've always been someone who goes against the grain, and MMOs are no exception. Part of the reason I enjoy Black Desert so much...

Bethesda's busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is...

Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs. "Recently my game of choice,...

I always feel bad for games that run events on BlizzCon weekend because I always suspect they'll be underattended, but maybe this BlizzCon will...

Hear me out - not trolling here. I've been thinking about this all week, ever since the uproar over the pricing for Guild...

Justin and Bree discuss Onslaught aka SWTOR's first expansion in three (!) years, Fallout 76's latest kerfuffle, the return of Kritika Online, ArcheAge's ArchePass confusion and rework, DDO's mounts, BlizzCon, and Halloween, with a mailbag topic on MMO toxicity.

If you've been feeling a bit confused by all of Legends of Aria's recent changes, my friends, you are not alone. Back in...

While it's not the death of Origin, this bit of news certainly sounds like the dull, wet thud of an axe ramming into its...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we've got a new addition to the Make My MMO list: Book of Travels, the "tiny multiplayer...

Do you have any pressing plans this weekend? Astellia Online hopes not because the team would really like to get you into this...

Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and...

If you've often promised that you would support online RPGs that broke from tropish traditions and took risks, well, it's time to put your...

Yesterday's announcement that Fallout 76 is getting a "Fallout 1st" subscription plan that locks private world ownership behind a paywall and grants...

MMOs offering a currency pegged to real money that can also be converted back into real money aren't particularly common, but Project C...

If you already have a lifetime sub to Star Trek Online -- or perhaps were contemplating picking one up in the future --...

"Do you think all these developers got together and were like, 'October 2019. That's the month we are all going to collectively sh*t the...