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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best fishing system?
Fishing absolutely mystifies me. Oh, in real life, I get it: It's a way to be completely lazy, drink beer, and still catch your...
Hawaii-themed zombie survivalbox Fractured Veil finally makes its early access release to mixed reviews
After a multi-year series of delays, Paddle Creek Games has made the early access launch for its survival sandbox Fractured Veil, inviting players to...
Fight or Kite: Warhaven’s pre-season 2 is super fun but perilously unbalanced
Update: This column was written before we knew that Nexon has decided to sunset the game in April, unfortunately. Consider this our eulogy and...
Massively Overthinking: Open world difficulty and puzzles in MMOs
During last week's press event ahead of the Gold Road announcement, Elder Scrolls Online's Rich Lambert said something I thought would turn out to...
Valofe’s Kritika Zero heralds launch on its own platform with ‘opening ceremony’ events
This week has officially seen the fourth attempt at making Kritika Online stick the landing, as Valofe's version of the anime action MMO has...
Working As Intended: How to mod City of Heroes Homecoming the easy way
If you played City of Heroes a long time ago - or even back in 2019, when its secret server blossomed into a public...
Vague Patch Notes: Early access is just game development as performance art
I was reminded recently about Valheim. I do not own the game and thus have not played it; I cannot tell you if it...
The Daily Grind: What’s some weird or forgotten terminology or concept from an MMO of yore?
Way, way back in the day - and for only a relatively brief run - Ultima Online had a system that came to be...
Halo Infinite ends seasons after season 5, switching to short-term operations instead
We certainly wouldn't tell anyone that she isn't allowed to give a game a title that implies infinity, but since doing so inevitably makes...
New World nerfs bosses, addresses low server pop realms and the future of merges
New World's update in the wee hours of this morning was not a major one, but it still includes some notable bits - the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the key thought that keeps you from returning to MMOs?
In my decades of playing and writing about MMORPGs, there's one thing I've found to be incredibly true: There is no such thing as...
Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is slowly working its charms on me
Perhaps this is just time away from the game or the full mental and literal reset talking, but I have to say that right...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs have a permanent place on your desktop?
On the MOP Podcast a while back, I mentioned that Project Gorgon had made its way into a permanent home on my PC, which...
Throne & Liberty KR discusses stat integration, siege wars, and (vaguely) the global launch
As western players continue to wait impatiently for even the tiniest scrap of news about the global release of Throne & Liberty, NCsoft has...
Embers Adrift and Monsters & Memories devs come together to talk indie MMORPG devlopment
This week saw the developers of two classically styled MMORPGs come together to talk shop, as Monsters & Memories creative director and producer Shawn...
EVE Online plans two expansions, Vanguard tests, returning events, and a 21st anniversary in 2024 roadmap
The content roadmaps continue to flow freely from our corner of gaming, as CCP Games has put out its full-year plan for EVE Online,...
The Daily Grind: How much do you think the whales of your top MMO spend in a year?
A few weeks back, following Korea's Fair Trade Commission ordering Nexon to pay nearly $9M in fines over its deceptive gamble-upgrade mechanics, players went...
One Shots: A heated meeting
What are two words that delight you to hear as a child in school but terrify you as an adult? "Field trip!"
Rose can attest...
Global Chat: The EverQuest Fippy Awards
The EverQuest Show is starting the year with a for-fun awards ceremony featuring the two EverQuest MMOs. Who will win? Who will lose? Will this be...
LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2024 roadmap, from U39 to the Baharbêl expansion
Oh boy -- it's roadmap time for Lord of the Rings Online! As we've been seeing over the past few years, Standing Stone Games...
