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The Daily Grind: Where in the game do you wish your MMO had player housing?
Assuming that your MMO does offer player housing, it's not always a given that it's going to let you plop down a home in...
Choose My Adventure: Sylvan’s Cradle encapsulates the good and the bad of Nightingale
As directed by you fine poll-completing folks, I dived face-first into Nightingale with a singular purpose: power through the Sylvan's Cradle zone, clearing out...
Star Resonance, the mobile/PC revision of Blue Protocol, readies another beta test in China for April 24
Eventually the game name Star Resonance is going to stick in people's minds and not summon mental images of being a spinoff of another...
Not So Massively: Has the OARPG genre left me behind?
For some time now I've been thinking that I really want to sink my teeth into a new Diablo-style action RPG. I crave the...
The Daily Grind: What makes you furious in MMOs?
Last week, Lord of the Rings Online finally opened up its housing system on the new 64-bit servers, and after two days of listening...
Project Ghost’s first dev stream video and Q&A shows off the Wychwood zone
How high is Fantastic Pixel Castle's Project Ghost on your hype list these days? It may rate a spot or two higher after you...
Stars Reach talks Kickstarter test access, world resets, player governance, and player-made contracts
With Stars Reach wrapping up an extremely successful Kickstarter drive, Playable Worlds is now eager to crank out bunches of information. We'll begin with details...
The Daily Grind: What’s a classic MMO problem you wish the genre had solved a different way?
A while back, I was reading a thread on Reddit when a player managed to sum up nearly three decades of the push-pull of...
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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about... keys?
The Daily Grind: What small thing brings you great joy in your MMO?
Sometimes it really is the small thing that can bring you an absurd amount of joy or contentment. It just has to hit you,...
Trove is testing a new game mode, a major performance upgrade, and new non-cloud server tech
The perpetually underrated and overlooked MMORPG sandbox Trove has a patch on deck and a new community letter out from Gamigo this week, so...
The Daily Grind: How often do you do blind runs of new MMORPG content?
Last year, in response to a Daily Grind question about MMO new-content traditions, an MOP reader named Kelly said her tradition was to do...
Classic EverQuest outlines its May progression server’s ruleset: expanded start with resource hunter
Classic EverQuest's latest producer letter is not going to shock anyone who read Daybreak's full roadmap back in January, but it does have a...
Star Wars Galaxies’ SWGEmu declares 1.0, plans a scale-down and sunset, and announces SWGRealms
If you're a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server fan, especially of the pre-NGE variety, there's a lot of info coming your way from the...
Mortal Online 2 releases new chat box features and tweaked spell ranges, hints at the arrival of invasions
The chat window. Love it, hate it, mute it; it's a vital tool for people to communicate in MMOs, even if you might wish...
Champions Online, fresh off a smol UI update, introduces its new DECA community manager
Remember back in February, when DECA Games finally posted a memo to Star Trek Online fans to let them know how the transition from...
Fractured Online’s new studio is now ‘eight people strong’ as devs talk background update efforts
Yes, having eight developers working on the slowly rebuilding Fractured Online is not a lot, but considering this game had three unpaid workers at...
Choose My Adventure: A sense of confusion and curiosity mark the return to Nightingale
It's pretty frequently noted by this point that when I return to a game, I tend to do so with a little bit of...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s U73 launches Dinosaur Crisis, the first part of its Tavern Tales quests, today
Update 73 lands on the live Dungeons and Dragons Online servers today with Tavern Tales, a new quest bundle for the game, or at...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO expansion that you never, ever want to play again?
Not every MMORPG expansion can be a winner, of course, but it does seem that there tends to be one or two that becomes...