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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Max Out season brings a little hype back
The Pokemon Go fall seasonal update, coming September 3rd, is called Max Out, and if you haven't kept up with the main series of...
Tencent’s Blue Protocol Mobile goes into closed beta testing in China (sigh)
Hey, remember when Blue Protocol completely ended the Japanese version and western launch? Yeah, that still really stings, thanks for bringing it up. As the...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO player who never does crafting?
This one goes out to all the non-crafters in the house. No, not you oddballs who opt out of the player economy on some...
Wizard101 is launching on PlayStation, Xbox, and the Switch ‘soon’
Well here's some good news for MMO fans: KingsIsle is continuing its efforts to get kid-friendly MMO Wizard101 on aaaaaalllll the platforms, as today...
Perfect Ten: Underrated MMOs that deserve a second look in 2024
We've all been there at one time or another. We've been playing the same-old favorite MMO for a long time and then suddenly feel...
RuneScape fans revolt over Jagex’s second subscription fee hike in three years
Welp, the party is over for RuneScape fans: Jagex has once again announced that it's raising the price of the game.
"Membership pricing has been...
Elite Dangerous confirms a third new ship and Powerplay 2.0’s arrival in October as Lave Radio hits 500th episode
Frontier Developments' monthly studio-wide livestream has once more provided some tasty tidbits for Elite: Dangerous players. Following a teaser image earlier this month, FDev...
Old School RuneScape permabans over 200 accounts for cheating in Deadman Apocalypse
Last week Old School RuneScape pointed out how results for the recently completed Deadman Apocalypse competition were arriving late as a result of some...
The Soapbox: Paid MMO headstarts foster segregation and resentment in exchange for a revenue boost
The weekend before World of Warcraft: The War Within's global launch was not the same as past launches. In the lead up to the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: 10 easy Guild Wars 2 builds for solo play in 2024’s Janthir Wilds
While most MMORPGs offer a variety of ways to play a character, Guild Wars 2 offers a huge variety of builds for each of...
Tarisland turns one-month bans into 10-year bans for cheaters following player ‘feedback’
Furbish up your "well that escalated quickly" memes because that Tarisland cheating debacle from earlier this week just got much weirder and more punitive.
Yesterday,...
World of Warcraft cites ‘significant combat advantage’ for today’s War Within leveling nerf
Just because it's a brand-new expansion and era for World of Warcraft doesn't mean that old Blizzard isn't still lurking around. Indeed, the Fun...
The Daily Grind: Which landscape tropes in MMOs have you rolling your eyes?
We've talked about general MMO tropes in this space before, but it's not often that we see people call out online games and their...
Tarisland temp-bans players caught cheating in the Blight Dragon speed race event
All right, who here wants to see cheaters tracked, caught, and punished? Big show of hands, great. Now who here wants to see a...
Choose My Adventure: Leaving the tutorial island and gaining knowledge in Fractured
So that didn't take me too long, but then I suppose I had done most of the work beforehand anyway: My time in Fractured...
Fractured extends free-play through the weekend, drops short-term content roadmap
Fractured has a new dev blog out with a roadmap and some good news for folks who've been enjoying the free-play event: The event...
The Daily Grind: Do you expect MMORPGs to maintain full regional and platform parity?
Earlier this year, the team behind the western/global version of MapleStory announced that it was planning to fork away from the Korean version, basically...
Mobile online RTS Rival Kingdoms sunsets after eight years of operation
The white flag has gone up, the soldiers have laid down their arms, and the nearly decade-old conflict on mobile devices is now at...
LOTRO dev addresses PvP (im)balance after Update 41’s glory-seeking feature
The small incredibly vocal PvP community in Lord of the Rings Online has a few words for Standing Stone Games after the studio attempted...
Team-based PvP shooter Concord’s release was marked by low interest and middling impressions
This past Friday saw the multiplayer world get yet another live service team-based PvP FPS in the form of Concord, and if that description...
