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Wandering Wraeclast: Pets pounce into Path of Exile’s new Sentinel league
Two things I absolutely love in games are housing and pets. And having both just makes a game better! Path of Exile already has...
Jack Emmert is apparently leading a new NetEase studio – and not Daybreak’s Marvel MMO
So remember how Jack Emmert, the former Cryptic Studios boss, had moved over to Daybreak in 2016, where he was heading up Dimensional Ink,...
Blizzard announces Warcraft Arclight Rumble, a new strategy game for mobile devices
Had you forgotten that today was the reveal of Blizzard's upcoming Warcraft mobile game? Well it's here now. Warcraft Arclight Rumble is its name, and strategic...
The Game Archaeologist: Six cancelled MMOs that I wish had launched
In my lengthy tenure writing The Game Archaeologist -- which dates back to May 2010, if you can believe it -- I've covered MMOs...
Perfect Ten: Things that turn me off from trying your MMO
Hey, designers, we need to talk. So, if you haven't noticed, I like MMOs. And you're making an MMO. This should be a good...
LOTRO Legendarium: Six reasons why now is a great time to return to LOTRO
When you greatly love a game, franchise, or IP, there's nothing so heartwarming as to see it get a renaissance. In a world where...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2022: Revenues plummet, Blizzard loses another 2M players
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials.
As of this morning, we have Q1's results, comprising January, February, and March 2022, a...
Perfect Ten: The 10 stages of the MMO launch journey, from announcement to release
One of the aspects that I love about MMOs is just how dang fun the build-up to launch can be. I know this period...
Tamriel Infinium: A look back at Elder Scrolls Online’s Blackwood
Now that we're firmly entrenched in the year of High Isle and the legacy of the Bretons, it almost seems archaic to jump back...
Stick and Rudder: Using No Man’s Sky Outlaws as a way to fill the space sandbox void
Hello Games just keeps on proving itself over and over again. That's been the overall reaction whenever No Man's Sky makes an update from...
First impressions of Lost Ark’s new Battle for the Throne of Chaos update
While I have to admit that my playtime in Lost Ark has waned a bit in light of a bunch of other games capturing...
WoW Factor: Good job torching Wrath of the Lich King Classic, my dudes!
All right, this is... actually just hilarious to me. Like, seriously, I caught this particular detail after I'd already finished writing my initial reaction...
Lord of the Rings Online rolls the servers back after a day of downtime following anniversary patch
(We've updated with the latest rollback info at the end.)
What was set up to be an amazing day for Lord of the Rings Online...
WoW Factor: Initial thoughts on the World of Warcraft Dragonflight reveal
First things first, I want to clarify something: This is being dubbed an early response to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight because... well, it's a new...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s restored Living World S1E1 Flame and Frost
Where were you nine years ago? I don't know about you, but my life looked very different in 2013 when Guild Wars 2 first...
TERA’s PC version will sunset in June as Bluehole ceases work on the game
Today is the day that TERA's Japanese servers sunset... and unfortunately, the day heralds bad news for the rest of TERA's PC playerbase in...
Guild Wars 2’s 2013 living world episode Flame and Frost returns in reimagined form today
We're going back to the future in Guild Wars 2 today, as the revitalized and rewritten first living world season is finally beginning.
Just after...
World of Warcraft’s next expansion is called Dragonflight, WoW Classic Wrath launches this year
(We're updating with the big announcements at the end of this post.)
Today's the day, folks: As promised, Blizzard will be taking the wraps off...
Wisdom of Nym: Why can’t Final Fantasy XIV solve its housing problem?
Here is a column topic that I am tired of writing about. But once again, it is necessary.
So Final Fantasy XIV had its first...
Lord of the Rings Online welcomes Hobbits and big folk alike to the Yondershire
The Hobbits may have gone to Isengard, but it wasn't that great in the end, so they're coming back to Yondershire. Lord of the...
