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No, Pax Dei didn’t punch goats to get those amazing goat noises
Pax Dei's team isn't throwing in the towel or even pulling back from the insane challenge of pulling off a MMORPG sandbox. Rather, Mainframe...
Pax Dei’s Verse 3 has arrived with a world reset and major revamps for the world and crafting
Early access sandbox Pax Dei has officially delivered its Verse 3 update this week as promised. Servers were offline most of yesterday for the...
Lynked Banner of the Spark debuts two new trailers that highlight pastoral and combat gameplay
While much of the braying and honking in video games has been coming out of Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Games Showcase, there...
SGF 2025: Dune Awakening, Chrono Odyssey, The Cube, and more MMO trailers
Welcome to Not-E3 2025 - that is, Summer Game Fest 2025, which runs all weekend. Tonight, the ubiquitous Geoff Keighley will host the kick-off...
Pax Dei’s major Verse 3 update and wipe will get underway after lengthy downtime June 11
We've finally got a hard date for Pax Dei's next big update: It's coming on June 11th, right in the thick of all the...
Pax Dei answers questions about crafting, PvP, PvE, gear, and more in Discord Q&A
If you don't live, breathe, and swim around in the dank cloud of a game community's Discord, you might feel bad that you would...
Warframe preps for its upcoming Tennocon with plenty of events in-game and elsewhere
It has been 10 years of Tennocons for Warframe, and the number 10 is pretty significant in the game. (Like, that is part of the reason...
EVE Fanfest 2025: EVE Vanguard is leaning into full MMOFPS gameplay
EVE Online developer CCP Games has had a long and colourful history of trying to break into the first-person shooter genre. Since the launch...
Perfect Ten: 10 alternate travel options offered by MMORPGs
By default, in basically every MMORPG, your character is an eager co-worker in your objectives. You press W to go forward, and your character...
The Daily Grind: What’s a universal MMO truth that everyone knows but nobody talks about?
Back in March, GamesRadar ran a GDC piece quoting game marketing researcher Chris Zukowski on the reality of Steam demos.
"Here's the universal truth with...
Pax Dei is ‘rethinking the entire structure’ of its crafting system
When it comes to addressing its burgeoning crafting system, Pax Dei isn't taking a little screwdriver here or some WD-40 there to tune up...
Former Sony president blames the games industry implosion on ‘stupid money’ spent during COVID
They say that hindsight is 20/20, and admittedly former Sony Interactive Entertainment president Shuhei Yoshida risks little for speaking out about the actions of...
One Shots: Saving on electricity bills
Lucky Jinx's headlining World of Warcraft screenshot brings to mind an observation I've oft made in MMOs and RPGs over the years, which is...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2025: Black Desert Mobile’s Chinese endeavor is over
Last weekend, we ran the numbers on Black Desert and EVE Online, thanks to some gap-filling on Q4 2024 made possible by Pearl Abyss's...
Vague Patch Notes: What makes MMO monetization predatory?
I am really, really excited to be writing our limited series over in Gachapwned because I feel it's going to be an interesting deep-dive...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 518: Too much horsing around
Chris, Justin, and Bree discuss Equinox Homecoming's early access, Dune Awakening's beta, Neverwinter's Red Harvest, the former Cryptic MMOs' journey to Discord, Pax Dei's layoffs, and SWTOR's 7.7, with adventures in Palia, Lost Skies, Tower United, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus a mailbag topic on emulators we don't talk about.
Pax Dei is finally talking about its incoming optional subscription model
When Mainframe Industries told Pax Dei players last week that it had undergone a round of significant layoffs but still intended to see the...
PAX East 2025: First Descendant brings new zone, gear, characters, and NieR Automata collab this summer
Multiplayer shooty-with-the-booty The First Descendant is preparing for its third season this summer, and with it comes a whole bunch of new things, according...
PAX East 2025: Final Fantasy XI and XIV crosses over into Magic the Gathering
It's perhaps one of the most significant crossovers to ever happen to Magic the Gathering, at least if you're an MMORPG player: This June,...
PAX East 2025: Warframe gets Yareli Prime May 21, Isleweaver update, new Frame, and Valkyr rework in June
Where Digital Extremes' in-development action RPG barely got any stage time, the studio's sci-fi looter shooter Warframe commanded much more attention on the PAX...
