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Meet Pax Dei, a well-funded open-world social sandbox built to ‘true MMO scale’
Back in 2021, we caught wind of a new Microsoft-backed MMO called Pax Dei from studio Mainframe Industries, which had been busy raising huge...
Final Fantasy XIV opens another ticket lottery for the London Fan Festival in October
European fans, were you feeling left out of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Vegas hoopla? No longer: Square-Enix took the wraps off the...
Final Fantasy XIV is hosting a Q&A session at PAX East
It's been a couple of years, but Final Fantasy XIV is bringing Naoki Yoshida back to PAX East once again. And he's even hosting...
The Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s Arcanist class in action in latest video
We're still plucking out the juicy bits from IGN's Fanfest trailerpalooza from last weekend (juicy to us and our readers, anyway), which brings us...
Final Fantasy XIV opens Fan Festival 2023 tickets registrations through a lottery system
Square-Enix is flippin' on the hype machine for this year's Fan Festival in Las Vegas, which'll mark not just the first event for the...
Dungeons and Dragons Online confirms a PAX East 2023 panel that’s all about dungeon building
If you're a fan of Dungeons and Dragons Online's dungeon delves and will be attending this year's PAX East, then you'll likely want to...
EVE Online leverages its PLEX for Good charitable drive to aid earthquake victims in Turkiye and Syria
The list of MMO companies coming to the aid of those in Turkiye and Syria who were devastated by earthquakes earlier this week has...
Toontown Online emu operators announce the return of an in-person fan convention for the MMO’s 20th anniversary
All emulators and rogue servers for MMOs are passion projects of a game's fanbase, but there are arguably few fanbases that are as passionate...
Star Citizen’s CitizenCon returns as a live event in Los Angeles this October
Who needs a massively multiplayer game when you can have a massively multi-player get-together? Roberts Space Industries is encouraging fans of Star Citizen to...
EVE Online opens applications for closed beta testing of its Excel spreadsheet integration
The literal application of "spreadsheets in space" for EVE Online is taking one step closer to reality. The game's integration with spreadsheet software Microsoft...
E3 2023: Xbox, Nintendo, and Sony will all apparently skip the first in-person E3 since 2019
As first reported last night by IGN, E3 will apparently be a low-key affair, thanks to the absence of Sony, Nintendo, and Xbox. The...
Gamigo shuffles out RIFT’s old Hellbugs event for the Lunar New Year weekend
Gamigo's been a bit of a mess the last couple of months, and by all accounts RIFT's last community manager was let go earlier...
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s upcoming ‘skill-based mint’ NFT game sparks a speculation market
While there are many of us normal humans who don't participate in a wildly speculative and volatile market powered by FOMO, art theft, environmental...
GDC’s State of the Games Industry survey once again demonstrates dev skepticism for metaverse and blockchain hokum
This year's State of the Game Industry from GDC - its 11th since beginning the project - delivers a range of insights from the...
Massively Overthinking: The biggest 2022 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
As we wrap up our end-of-the-year and turn-of-the-calendar content until next December, there's one more recurring Massively Overthinking I like to do - and...
Starbase prepares for its next in-game spaceship showcase on January 27
If you're a fan of starships, specifically the ones built in the early access sandbox of Starbase, then you've got an important couple of...
EVE Online shares a video retrospective of its year with the community
Late December is the time when we all start thinking about the year that was, usually how much of a pile of garbage it...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2022
It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...
BlizzCon 2023 and Blizzard’s unnamed survival game are both still happening
The World of Warcraft roadmap wasn't the only thing Blizzard dropped yesterday just before the holidays: Blizzard president Mike Ybarra also penned an address...
EVE Online’s mobile 4X strategy game Project M5 resurfaces thanks to recent player survey questions
Allow us to provide a little bit of additional context for this one: Among the reveals made during Fanfest in May, there was some...
