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The Daily Grind: Are you reluctant to start new MMORPGs?
When I sat down a few weeks ago to play Tarisland - whenever I sit down to play any new MMORPG, really - I...
Massively Overthinking: Do you have a ‘mental block’ in MMORPGs?
Back in June, MMO blogger Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut penned a fun blog about having had a mental block against tanking.
"Something happened...
Here’s how the ‘cellular automata simulation’ in Raph Koster’s new sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach works
In the wake of the announcement of Stars Reach, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has been making the rounds of Reddit and the gaming blogosphere...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft in the 1990s
MMORPGs don't pop out of nowhere, ex nihilo, to suddenly be enjoyed by players across the globe. Good ones take several years, dozens of...
RuneScape’s RuneFest is saved as Jagex sets new location and dates for March 2025
Jagex's RuneScape-themed fan festival RuneFest has not had the best luck the last few years. Jagex had to cancel it back in 2020 for...
Funcom marks Secret World’s 12th anniversary with a brief message of thanks
Today, July 3rd, marks the launch date of the deeply unique modern world MMORPG The Secret World, which has been online for 12 years...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best character select screens?
With The War Within pre-patch arriving in late July, World of Warcraft's character select screen is getting a huge makeover to allow you to...
Trove celebrates ninth birthday, plans Sunfest, and offers console roadmap
Next week, Trion's original voxelbox Trove turns nine years old, and though Trion is long gone, current handler Gamigo and its severely underpaid community...
Prosperous Universe adds new political layers, German language support, and loan creation
Most of the time when Prosperous Universe crosses our desk, it's because the devs have put up some extremely granular but arguably sleep-inducing dev...
Choose My Adventure: The Elite Dangerous vs Pax Dei rematch
Nine times out of ten, I generally follow the Will of the Polls here in MOP's Choose My Adventure column without too much question...
Chinese Star Citizen fan attempts to sound an alarm over a resolved Bar Citizen ticket price fiasco
Followers of Star Citizen are likely very familiar with the Bar Citizen community meet-ups that run every year. These free player-run events allow fans...
The Daily Grind: How many players constitute a proper MMORPG raid?
Back when Amazon first announced its New World Aeternum rebranding, I noticed an interesting comment about the planned raid. Longtime reader Squid opined that...
Elder Scrolls Online sets July 3 preview date for update 43 and a new housing feature
With Gold Road in the rear-view mirror, ZeniMax Online Studios is looking ahead to what the rest of the year holds for Elder Scrolls...
Pokemon Go’s Meteorite bait-and-switch isn’t helping Go Fest hype
Niantic is not heading into 2024's Go Fest on great terms with the Pokemon Go playerbase, owing to a string of problems: a sales...
The Daily Grind: Would you rather have disposable minions or true pets with an MMO pet class?
A few weeks back, MOP's Chris and I were talking about Path of Exile 2's forthcoming Witch character and griping about the way a...
Global Chat: Tarisland’s controls, WoW Classic permadeath, and Dawntrail tips
The Ancient Gaming Noob doesn't mince words in a recent essay: He found Tarisland pretty annoying right from the start. One key complaint? The...
One Shots: Dawntrail, ho!
Memories of a brutal 48-hour downtime for Final Fantasy XIV are fading into distant memory as the playerbase basks on the shores of Dawntrail....
V Rising is taking ‘a brief respite’ before working on Update 1.1
Now that Stunlock Studios has the PC and PS5 release of its vampiric survival sandbox V Rising behind it, the studio is taking a...
WRUP: Jim stole your popsicles edition
It's time for our weekly open column about what you're playing, which is not about Jim or popsicles.
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs show blood and battle damage?
At the risk of sounding like a bloodthirsty gorehound, I do kind of wish that MMOs did more to visually represent the damage that...
