character creation
Fight or Kite: Harry Potter Magic Awakened brings the familiarity of the Wizarding World to an MMO
The time is here at last: Not only can I play Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, but I can finally write about it too. I’ve...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs that are worth their dreadful early gameplay
I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...
Palia shares an hour of crafting, gathering, exploring, and multiplayer gameplay footage in livestream
Before you know it, the month of August will be here, which is when the beta testing rounds for Palia will be starting for...
Baldur’s Gate 3 confirms split-screen couch co-op, highlights multiplayer features
It's time for another dev blog out of Larian Studios and its upcoming multiplayer RPG Baldur's Gate 3. And yes, this game is multiplayer...
LOTRO Legendarium: Hobbits (and River Hobbits) are the heart of Lord of the Rings
I don't care if you want me to be objective when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online's races, because in my book,...
Profane shows off some live gameplay in a stream and shares its development progress for June
The FFA PvP sandbox of Profane is continuing its march through development, all the while keeping followers of the project abreast of what has...
Global Chat: Are you pumped up for Path of Exile 2?
Online ARPG enthusiasts are no doubt keeping an eye on the long-in-the-coming Path of Exile 2 -- and crossing their fingers that it ends...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 426: Axing Anarchy’s ARK and doubling down on Diablo IV
Justin, Bree, and Carlo discuss LOTRO's summer content, the end of Anarchy Online's volunteer program, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light, and Star Citizen's crowdfunding, plus adventures in Diablo IV, LOTRO, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on playing MMOs as a family.
Blue Protocol’s latest Japanese teaser trailer release focuses on character creation options
The parade of teaser hype trailers continues to spew forth from Blue Protocol's Japanese dev team. First it was about locations, then it was...
The MOP Up: Netmarble and Take-Two finances are powered by MMOs
We have a couple more earnings reports to, er, report to you today. Netmarble's Q1 2023 financials reported $472.4M in revenue, with MMORPGs making...
Choose My Adventure: Dungeons and Dragons Online immediately brings that tabletop goodness
It's still early days for this month's run of Choose My Adventure, but even so I can pretty much immediately confirm my earlier suspicions:...
MapleStory is deleting a whole character – Jett – after 11 years in the global version
I'm having a hard time remembering the last time an MMO developer deleted an entire class from an MMO. The NGE, maybe? Regardless, it's...
Blue Protocol hosts a postmortem livestream after its latest Japanese network test
At the beginning of April, the devs for Bandai Namco's anime MMORPG Blue Protocol promised they would share the results of the latest network...
Lord of the Rings Online is testing major new customization options for hairstyle, skintone, and gobs more
Standing Stone Games opened up Lord of the Rings Online's Bullroarer test server last night with multiple surprises for content and customization.
"LOTRO is celebrating...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO with a premade character?
I tend to think that if I were trying to come up with a list of mechanics and concepts and features that pretty much...
Perfect Ten: 10 features that take Star Trek Online out of this world
In returning to Star Trek Online after a couple of years away, I did something brand-new this time around: I brought my Star Trek-obsessed...
World of Warcraft will let you make blind characters in Update 10.1
MMORPGs are all about letting you make and roleplay the kind of character you envision, which means the more creation choices, the better. And...
Derek Smart posts video for impending return of 14-year-old MMORPG Alganon
The story of Alganon has not always been a pretty one, as we've covered as far back as 2010, when a row started between...
Kickstarted MMO Past Fate previews the first 30 minute of its alpha gameplay experience
Did you happen to miss out on the earlier open alpha weekend of Past Fate? Maybe you forgot or you got busy or some...
Choose My Adventure: Starting out in Embers Adrift is just as tough as expected
It took me an alarming amount of time to get to level two.
That's pretty much as good of a summary as I can come...
