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New World’s Summer Game Fest video addresses player feedback, content, and pay-to-win
As part of the Summer Game Fest this week, Amazon's New World team has delivered a deep-dive into the game with a new video...
Hood: Outlaws and Legends outlines update 1.4 adjustments, a PvE mode, and balance changes in recent video
Remember Hood: Outlaws & Legends? It's a medieval-themed team-based PvPvE game where two teams of players fight against AI guards and one another to...
Black Desert teases the arrival of ‘a new tide’ and enters a crossover with Bugatti across all platforms
*WHOCK! WHOCK! WHOCK!*
Oh, don't mind that noise, that's the sound of Black Desert trying to hammer the square peg of Bugatti into the round...
Closers introduces its latest character Eunha with new events and a pre-starter pack
The cast of the side-scrolling action MMO Closers is expanding once more, and this time it's getting a mope-filled scarf-wearing debt collector who loves...
The Soapbox: MMO monetization that complements poor game design makes us all losers
I have a problem: As much as I enjoy games, I can see that many online and multiplayer games are becoming designed more poorly...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Rich Lambert on Blackwood, companions, lore, and more
Elder Scrolls Online PC fans are in for a treat today as the MMORPG is dropping its biggest content blast of the year in...
Fight or Kite: Chivalry 2 is a blood-soaked, action-packed experience of absolute mayhem
Grab your sword. Grab your board. Grab a pile of horse poop. Better yet, grab the head of your enemies rolling on the ground...
LOTRO Legendarium: How the landscape difficulty slider is changing the rules of the game
For a long time now, one of the chief complaints about Lord of the Rings Online has been that... it's too easy. Players have...
Massively Overthinking: How important is gear in your core MMO?
This week's Overthinking comes to us courtesy of a rant on the MMORPG subreddit, which... well don't judge it by the title, OK? Author...
Elder Scrolls Online’s in-game lockbox item earning system won’t ship with Blackwood
Whether you are for buying Elder Scrolls Online's crown crates or not, you can't deny that there aren't some sweet goodies lurking in those...
Echtra washes its hands of Torchlight III as the Cursed Captain arrives
What was once a promising next generation of Torchlight in the MMORPG space ended up fizzling so hard that even its developer is getting...
Moonlight Sculptor’s developers discuss the mobile MMORPG’s background and feature set
With the game's global launch arriving tomorrow, Kakao Games and XL Games' mobile MMORPG Moonlight Sculptor probably has a few people wondering just what...
Roblox scalpers make an absolute killing selling in-game Gucci handbags
I can already hear Bree opening up her "Weirdest Stories of 2021" file folder for this one. Roblox, the game that now says it...
Neverwinter brings back the mechanized crafting of the Wonders of Gond event on May 27
If (for whatever reason) you have global chat on in Neverwinter and you start seeing players shouting for grommets, gears, and doohickeys, it's not...
Perfect Ten: Everything in MMOs that is pay-to-win
I have stated before that I have a complex relationship with the term "pay-to-win." On the one hand, it tends to refer to something...
Ashes of Creation boss criticizes New World’s business model, argues for subs and cosmetic shops
New World's cash-shop snafu last week still has a wide swath of the MMO community up in arms, apparently. Readers will recall that a...
Dauntless adds new radiant monster, opens a new location, and celebrates its ‘Slayerversary’ on May 20
If you've been following along with the Twitter account of Dauntless, you know that the previews and teasers have been churning out quite a...
New World confirms cash shop items will be cosmetic-only at launch after alpha test storefront worries arise
New World very nearly doused its own flame before even leaving alpha. With the game's last major alpha update, the devs elected to test...
Skyforge’s Days of Glory event pits players against robot ghosts from the past
The world of Skyforge has a lot of invasions happening all the time, but the Days of Glory event is a bit different. You're not...
Elder Scrolls Online explains the ins and outs of Blackwood’s companions
Without a doubt, the most exciting feature coming with this summer's Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood chapter is the addition of companions -- combat NPCs...
