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Diablo IV talks up player choice in PvE and endgame while Diablo Immortal rakes in $24M in revenue
The devs of Diablo IV are hitting the press trail, putting out interviews and previews of the multiplayer ARPG ahead of its 2023 release...
PlanetSide 2 brings back summertime squirt guns and aerial anomalies for PC players
It's time once again for the infantry of PlanetSide 2 to lock and load. Or more specifically, fill with a load of water, though...
Neverwinter brings back the Protector’s Jubilee to celebrate its ninth anniversary
Today is the day to celebrate nine years of Neverwinter with the return of the Protector's Jubilee event, which is offering up new and...
DC Universe Online makes Superman an ally and hands out Pride cosmetics in Update 125
At long last, you can tell people in DC Universe Online that Superman is your friend and actually prove it's true by summoning him...
Diablo IV devs take to Twitter to get ahead of monetization fears spawned by a job posting
With all of the monetization headlines springing up around Diablo Immortal, it'd be easy to understand why fans watching the development of Diablo IV...
Destiny 2 deep-dives adjustments to airborne accuracy and heralds the return of Trials of Osiris
Are you the type of Destiny 2 player who likes to take to the skies and rain down fire upon your foes? Then you...
The Cycle Frontier kicks off its free-to-play ‘pre-season’ launch as players decry a pay-to-win DLC pack
Near the end of May, developer Yager noted that its PvPvE survival shooter The Cycle: Frontier was "very close" to release. Apparently that means...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Diablo Immortal on PC
There was a time when the release of a new Diablo game might have been a big deal for me. But I've never been...
Midnight Ghost Hunt is a multiplayer prop hunting game where the props can kill the hunters
If you're familiar with games like Prop Hunt and Witch-It, then you can likely wrap your head around Midnight Ghost Hunt; it's a 4v4...
The Daily Grind: What level of pay-to-win are you willing to tolerate in MMORPGs?
Friend-of-MOP Clowd over at RIFT blog The Ghar Station penned a provocative piece this week proposing for the MMORPG genre a five-tiered system for...
Massively Overthinking: Making money in MMOs – easy, hard, or in-between?
A few days ago, I was hanging out in a certain MMORPG's Discord when an age-old class fight broke out - and I don't...
Hot Pockets teams up with PUBG: Battlegrounds to award you awful cosmetics in a circuitous fashion
The makers of Hot Pockets know what you want, players of PUBG: Battlegrounds. You want Hickory Ham & Cheddar, and you want it hot,...
‘Nostalgic’ browser MMORPG Genfanad opens its Kickstarter, immediately hits its $10K ask
Last year we reported on Genfanad, a self-described "nostalgic browser-based MMORPG" that promised to mesh old-school sandbox MMORPG sensibilities with an off-beat sense of...
Four Winds: Remembering TERA’s wild start and in-game politics
Well, the TERA sunset thing caught me off guard. I don't play TERA, but I was always under the impression that the game was...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s restored living world S1E2 Sky Pirates
Ready for another trip down Guild Wars 2's memory lane, or, perhaps, to experience more of the game's long-lost stories for the first time?...
Lost Ark’s Destined for Destruction drops the Destroyer and Deskaluda
Happy patch day, Lost Ark players: Smilegate and Amazon have rolled out the May Destined for Destruction update after a bit of a snag...
PlanetSide 2’s new PC patch adds empire-specific anti-material rifles and marks 19 years with classic items
It's been 19 years since the original MMORPG shooter launched, and this week PlanetSide 2 players on PC can mark the occasion with the...
Path of Exile pushes out balance update, pay-to-swole cosmetics
I'm gonna be honest: I thought Path of Exile's tweet about switching from pay-to-glow to pay-to-swole was just a joke. But it turns out...
The MOP Up: SWG rogue server Empire in Flames celebrates five years
Star Wars Galaxies: Empire in Flames rogue server celebrated its fifth anniversary this past week. "Since the doors opened on May 4th 2017, EiF...
Dauntless celebrates three years with special quests, a limited-time hunt, and community events
The multiplayer monster slaying RPG Dauntless has been running for three years as of this month, which means that it's time for players to...