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Vague Patch Notes: NFTs in gaming are a bad, dumb idea
This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...
Here’s how ArcheAge transfers from Gamigo to Kakao will work – expect land rushes
Last week, we covered the out-of-the-blue news that XL Games was moving western publishing rights for ArcheAge from Gamigo to Kakao. We say "out-of-the-blue"...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections
Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...
Lord of the Rings Online launches its eighth expansion, Fate of Gundabad
Who's ready to get funky with Dwarves underground and Brawlers over the landscape? Lord of the Rings Online players, that's who. Today marks the...
Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ Echovald Wilds biome
One of the best-loved locations in Classic Guild Wars was Echovald Forest, the overgrown, gothic home of the Kurzick faction. Just based on concept art...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Should Guild Wars 2 delete leveling?
Leveling is one of those things that you just have to have to count as an RPG, right? It’s expected. At this point, the...
Not So Massively: Lost Ark is a promising MMOARPG with a poor first impression
Like many ARPG fans, I have long-awaited the Western release of Smilegate's MMOARPG, Lost Ark. Though the launch has been delayed to next year,...
Wisdom of Nym: Coping with the Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker delay
Sigh.
So by now even if you didn't watch the live letter, you've heard the bad news. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker was just in sight,...
Interview: Crowfall’s freemium update, small-scale PvP, new players, and the future of the game
Another month has passed, and another meaty patch is coming to Crowfall. That's right, today we'll see the latest update (7.300) arrive on the...
Tamriel Infinium: Should Elder Scrolls Online increase its landscape difficulty?
In so many ways, One Tamriel reinvented the Elder Scrolls Online experience by freeing players to pursue their own paths through the game. I...
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker has been delayed until December 7
If you've been counting the days until Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion arrived, you're going to have to count a little bit longer. Producer...
WoW Factor: The player council is not the solution to World of Warcraft’s ills
So World of Warcraft is going to establish a player council to offer feedback to the developers. What a terrible idea with already poor implementation...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Charles Boyd on BioWare, newbie acquisition, economy, and beyond
So it’s been two years since I wrote a piece on Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’m sorry. You’ll have to tell me what...
First Impressions: Lost Ark’s beta version feels like the MMOARPG for folks who are bad at ARPGs
I’ve probably started and restarted this impressions piece about three different times now, primarily because I’m not entirely sure where to begin with Lost...
Kakao is taking over publishing ArcheAge in the west from Gamigo
It's the end of an era: The Western version of ArcheAge is getting a new publisher. Come December, Kakao will be running the game...
Perfect Ten: 10 enemies we need to fight more in MMORPGs
When I wrote up the contents of every MMORPG bestiary, I stuck mostly with concepts rather than specifics, aside from dragons and slimes. There...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2021: Blizzard MAUs hold steady at 26M as Diablo II Resurrected drives revenues
Welcome back to our quarterly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials, the release day of which has become one of the schadenfreude highlights of each...
Vitae Aeternum: The cold water splash of New World’s Amrine Excavation and early game dungeon mechanics
Could a single poorly designed dungeon encounter kill a whole-ass MMO for me? I didn't think it was possible, but then I entered the...
20 tips for getting a good start in Fallen Earth’s apocalypse
It's certainly not every day that one of your favorite MMOs of all time comes back from the dead. When that happens, friends, it's...
Elder Scrolls Online wraps up its Oblivion adventures with today’s Deadlands DLC
Elder Scrolls Online's final content update of the year -- and the end of the Oblivion-themed Blackwood expansion cycle -- is finally here for...
