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Destiny 2 prepares for Heresy’s next act, collabs with Sea of Thieves, and discusses efforts to retain players
Even though this year's Game Developers Conference is long gone, we're still getting peeks at how the gaming sausages are made in many respects,...
Early access MMORPG Pax Dei releases a new roadmap, saying its next update will be a ‘significant step forward’
Pax Dei is doing some hardcore, take-no-prisoners self-reflection in its March development update letter. The studio recapped its journey through early access so far,...
Recapping the Warcraft 30th anniversary tour’s Toronto stop
Despite the event selling out virtually instantaneously, I managed to be one of the lucky few to snag a ticket to the Toronto stop...
The First Descendant celebrates surviving a bad Metacritic score by teasing season 3: The Breakthrough
At GDC this week, Nexon ran a session on what it's characterizing as the redemption arc of The First Descendant, the MMO-ish looter-shooter that...
Spry Fox has finally named what it once called its ‘non-violent MMO project’: Spirit Crossing
We don't often have occasion to cover Spry Fox here in the MMO world, but readers might remember that way back in 2021, the...
Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier’s next ‘hackathon’ will award attendees travel vouchers and Fanfest tix
During its past testing, CCP Games' blockchain survival MMO EVE Frontier held a so-called "hackathon" event where players were invited to modify the game...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 510: Defiance defies the odds
Justin and Bree discuss the return of Defiance, the sale of Pokemon Go, World of Warcraft's housing, BlizzCon 2026, and Pantheon's PvP, with adventures in WoW and LOTRO, plus a mailbag topic on Dungeon Fighter Online and other deep-cut MMOs.
The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
Blizzard says BlizzCon will return again at last… in 2026
If you had your hopes up for a 2025 BlizzCon, well, don't. But you can get excited for next year already.
"Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced...
Warframe hypes up its 12th anniversary, TennoConcert ticket sales, and PAX East devstream
As we slide into the spring season here in our portion of the globe (and muddle through daylight saving time's return in the US,...
Pax Dei adds more features to its Discord chat system, including voice chat and chat bubbles
Pax Dei's switchover to a Discord chat client last November is about to get a substantial upgrade with the game's next patch.
The studio announced...
Tickets for Warframe’s first TennoConcert become available March
Every year, Warframe's TennoCon expands, and every year I wonder just how it could possibly get bigger. For 2025, it grows in a very...
Techrot Encore rocks Warframe 1999 with new music, protoframes, a pub, and a sentient guitar on March 19
Do Warframe players need more reasons to head back to Warframe 1999? Not necessarily (although where else can you hang out at a '90s...
EVE Online elaborates on planned tweaks to mining as Fanfest tickets have officially sold out
To hear it from CCP Games itself - and likely from its playerbase - mining in EVE Online isn't in a really good place...
Pax Dei’s team is ‘confident’ that the sandbox MMORPG will launch in 2025
Pax Dei has big plans for its future that it can't wait to share -- which is why the developers sat down to answer...
Damn, World of Warcraft’s Toronto fan gathering sold out almost immediately
Do you remember when Blizzard held a BlizzCon that didn't sell out? We do, but it appears that the studio has wised up and...
Pax Dei outlines its building revamp with an eye toward accessibility and consistency
Mainframe's sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei is back with yet another Discord dev blog today, this one homing in on homes - well, more specifically,...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025
A decade is a long time. It's kind of weird that we don't think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade...
EVE Online hypes up its May 1 Fanfest 2025 and starts a new in-game event
You would be forgiven for thinking that tickets to an event in the middle of Iceland wouldn't be a hot buy, but then you've...
Sandbox MMO Pax Dei is razing inactive housing plots again as it launches on GeForce Now and EGS
With the early access boom firmly in its rearview mirror, Pax Dei is turning its attention to the necessary work of clearing out long-abandoned...