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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shards Online surprised the gamer community by announcing a namechange -- to Legends of Aria -- and a scope-change, the...

The Repopulation is indeed on track to resume early access later this month as planned. "Servers will be opening up to all current players on...

Last week, the MMO world was startled to learn that instead of getting an expansion, The Secret World is getting a complete relaunch as...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, we sent MOP's Matt Daniel into Crowfall, from which he emerged with many opinions on the state of the game's...

This past week, I received this letter from reader Thurro: "Your recent LOTRO resurgence has my interest, and from the sounds of you on...

Well, it wasn't the news I was hoping for, but I'll still take it! This week we learned about Funcom's plan to relaunch the...

In the near future, Eternal Crusade is offering a free option for players to jump in and start playing without any need for purchase,...

Voxel sandbox Trove's been in open beta on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for only a few short months, but it's already gathered "nearly...

I've been considering writing this for awhile now, but I've not been sure how to broach the subject. I've not been playing Star Wars:...

Funcom's fourth quarter 2016 financial report for investors landed this afternoon, and it's a doozy, especially for MMORPG players. Of most interest is the...

The Paladins community was not terribly happy with the changes made to the game's microtransaction model for, let's face it, entirely understandable reasons. Introducing...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, The Exiled was released to the wilds of Steam early access. Formerly called Das Tal, the buy-to-play indie sandbox attempted to...

Do you have burning questions about Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen or simply want to get pumped up about the game? Thanks to a...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, we did a retrospective on why crowdfunded MMOARPG Hero's Song failed. It's almost as if Justin knew (cue spooky music) because...

Like probably most of the population of Lord of the Rings Online, I was initially interested in player housing when it first came out,...

MMOs, like any other hobby, have their own terminology. We have the term "newb" for new players, "noob" for players who aren't actually new...

In order to talk about WildStar, we kind of have to talk about Firefly. And no, not in the obvious way where we talk...

Carbine Studios reeeeaaaally wants to make it worth your while to subscribe to WildStar. It already has a "signature rewards" program for subbers that...

The business model for Overwatch in Korea is very different than it is here in the USA, which means that there will be at...

TUG, better known as The Untitled Game, burst onto the scene in May of 2013 with a Kickstarter, which didn't elicit the same groans...