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First impressions: Final Stand Ragnarok is not Camelot Unchained, but it’s a fun romp anyway
At the top of 2020, when City State Entertainment's Mark Jacobs first announced Final Stand Ragnarok - called Project Colossus back then - it...
‘Survival crafting MMORPG’ BitCraft plans closed alpha for April 2 – here’s how to sign up
That upcoming MMORPG sandbox BitCraft is heading into closed alpha is not a shock: Clockwork Labs has been teasing it for months. The new...
Throwback MMORPG Scars of Honor’s $200K Kickstarter bid ends unsuccessfully
Exactly a month ago, Bulgarian startup studio Beast Burst Entertainment began a $200,000 Kickstarter for its MMORPG Scars of Honor, and as of this...
Final Fantasy XIV will launch on Xbox on March 21
Well, it looks like the beta for Final Fantasy XIV on the Xbox Series X|S is not going to last particularly long after all....
Mortal Online 2 tweaks when players can sub to the game – and adds free time for new subbers
Mortal Online 2 studio StarVault is smooshing around its sub and - if we're reading it right - sweetening the deal by offering players...
Zenith OARPG Infinite Realms launches today as Steam reviews plummet over MMO development halt
There wasn't much lead-up to this - indeed, the world has known it was happening for less than a month - but Zenith's new...
VR MMO Zenith’s free-to-play spinoff Zenith Infinite Realms launches February 27
Well, that didn't take long: After only a week in open beta, Zenith: Infinite Realms, the free-to-play spinoff RPG of VR MMO Zenith, will...
Make My MMO: Scars of Honor’s Kickstarter, Temtem’s and Zenith’s spinoff drama
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! We've got three specific newish Kickstarters to talk about.
Galactic Getaway,...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 ways LOTRO was vastly different at launch
While I would argue that Lord of the Rings Online has grown in a remarkably cohesive way since its launch, what we have here...
Vague Patch Notes: What does the future of MMORPGs look like?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the history of MMORPGs as a market and PC gaming in general, suggesting at...
Final Fantasy XIV brings back the Final Fantasy XV collaboration next week
It's time to get back in the car, loser, because Final Fantasy XIV is going collaborating. (Note: this applies to people who are not...
Argentinian World of Warcraft players say the game is ‘dead’ after January pricing changes
Argentinian fans of World of Warcraft are sounding the alarm over Blizzard's decision to change both the cost of subscription to the MMORPG and...
Into the Super-Verse: So what can Homecoming do with City of Heroes’ Incarnates?
Last week I talked about the major issues that City of Heroes' Incarnate system introduced to the game, and the fact of the matter...
Perfect Ten: The 10 phases of MMORPG pre-launch hysteria
One of my private theories about MMO players -- one I'm now making public -- is that we all have the collective memories of...
Microsoft prepares to talk about Xbox’s future in a podcast as multi-platform game rumors swirl
The past several weeks have been some apparently nervous ones for those whose online personas are devoted to Microsoft in general and Xbox in...
Wisdom of Nym: What the hey is up with Final Fantasy XIV’s Xbox pricing?
In another theoretical timeline, there's a place where Final Fantasy XIV really would have stepped in it when it subtly noted that the game's...
Tencent’s Tarisland drops a video guide to its Ranger class
While some upcoming MMOs keep info behind closed doors, Tarisland is making all kinds of public effort to pump up the community for this...
Tarisland discusses its business model and in-game economy in a new video
Tarisland has airdropped in a new video about its economy this week, but the downside is that the video is a bit vague when...
World of Warcraft remains coy about March’s ‘secret’ Dragonflight patch
In what promises to be a diverging year for World of Warcraft, Blizzard already is stirring things up for a complacent playerbase. Curiosity's been...
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...
