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The Daily Grind: If you shilled in a commercial for an MMO, what would it be?
It's always a special brand of surreal to see well-known celebrities conscripted into doing commercials and ads for MMORPGs, all the more so because...
RuneScape adds a new boss fight November 20, Old School RuneScape confirms Leagues IV for November 15
I'm now convinced that dragons are made of cat software installed into reptilian hardware; they would much rather sleep for long periods of time,...
MMO Business Roundup: Gaming addiction, GTA6, Ubisoft layoffs, Epic v. Google, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. There's been a lot this week, so we'll keep 'em brief!
Addiction: A woman...
Ship of Heroes revamps targeting brackets and tab-targeting ahead of next test
Heroic Games is continuing to forge ahead with its development of Ship of Heroes following the game's most recent demo test at SteamFest. Its...
The Daily Grind: Do you typically leave MMOs when your guild does?
A few weeks back, an MOP follower on Mastodon noted that she was happy about changes made to New World and that she'd consider...
Massively Overthinking: Did BlizzCon do what it needed to do?
Given the last couple of years, which have been inarguably rocky for both the company and its games, Blizzard needed a big win at...
Greg Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle hints at the possibilities of its ‘Ghost’ MMO in hour-long Q&A
Will Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's new Fantastic Pixel Castle be able to bring the goods when it comes to developing an MMORPG? Ever since the...
Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs
Holy crud, do I not know that I'm setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends!...
The Daily Grind: What are some of your MMO core memories?
There are a lot of annoying modern phrases that everyone seems to latch onto and overuse -- "glow up" is my current pet peeve,...
Corepunk shares player feedback from its playtest: ‘Challenging and punishing’
Overshadowed by a pretty busy news weekend was the fact that genre hybrid MMO Corepunk ran its second weekend playtest with a little over...
Choose My Adventure: Swamps, spicy fights, story, and technical issues in New World
Just in case anyone was worried, no, I didn't abandon Choose My Adventure; I was just busied by reporting on a space game and...
New World appears to have reshuffled some late-year projects around its roadmap
Yesterday's announcement of New World's last content drop of the year isn't all sunshine and, er, eternal frost for some fans who aim to...
The Daily Grind: How extensively do you mod your UI in MMOs?
There are a couple of subjects I will gush about forever until someone kindly tells me to shush, and one of those is mods...
Casually Classic: BlizzCon took WoW Classic into the ‘plus’ era
While the three-expansion revelation of World of Warcraft's Worldsoul Saga stole the show at BlizzCon this past weekend, I was even more excited --...
WoW Classic won’t be keeping Wrath Classic realms, debates what to do with Season of Discovery characters
The reverberations from all of WoW Classic's announcements at this past weekend's BlizzCon continue to be felt across the MMO community. And for every...
The Daily Grind: Do you remember to eat food in your MMO of choice?
I've been obsessed with cooking in MMOs ever since I created a chef empire in original-flavor Star Wars Galaxies. Actually, it probably started well...
One Shots: Halloween leftovers
'Tis the week after Halloween, and even as we put away our decorations (or say "whatever" and keep them up until February), the lingering...
WRUP: Pizzazz edition
dang it hold on, hold on, hold on we need some kinda expansions announcement let me fish in my pocket. Got some stuff in...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO beast race?
When you venture off of the safe and predictable road of MMO races, where humans and Elves and blue-skinned humans and slightly smaller humans...
BlizzCon 2023: WoW Classic panel reveals Cataclysm, Hardcore, and Season of Discovery
Despite shouts of "Classic Plus!" coming from the crowd at BlizzCon, Blizzard resolutely pushed forward the more predictable path for World of Warcraft Classic:...
