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Indie Afrofantasy MMO Wagadu Chronicles has opened its early access doors today
"Today is a big day. The Wagadu Chronicles is finally accessible to the world." So begins Twin Drums' announcement that its Afrofantasy MMORPG has...
Path of Exile’s Affliction adds new Ascendancies and brings back Ultimatum
Forget about setting clocks back: I set my clock to Path of Exile updates! And it is time for the final quarterly update of...
Ashes of Creation offers an hour-long look at its current gathering and crafting gameplay
Ashes of Creation isn't only an FFA PvP sandbox; it also has some crafting and gathering to do (likely designed to create sheep for...
Massively Overthinking: Penalties for failure in MMORPGs (beyond death)
MMOs generally have one big obvious penalty for failure, right? You die. Oh, usually not forever, not unless it's some niche hardcore realm, and...
19-year-old EverQuest II’s 20th expansion, Ballads of Zimara, launches today
Don't look now, but EverQuest II's 2023 expansion, Ballads of Zimara, is quietly launching today. Wait, no, look now. Daybreak is quiet, but we...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares to celebrate 10 years of monthly updates in December
It's been almost 10 years since Shroud of the Avatar started making monthly updates - since December 2013 by Catnip Games' reckoning, which is...
The MOP Up: Into the Echo’s crafting ties into exploration and socialization
Upcoming time travel MMO Into the Echo posted a high-level overview of its crafting system, saying that it'll be necessary to make spells and...
Trove’s Punches and Potions patch adds Martial Arts and Mysticism tradeskills
Trove players have something immediate to be thankful for this week: a new patch for the cube-shaped MMO. The Punches and Potions update arrived...
New World’s PTR is testing crafting features and the Legacy of Crassus event
Do you miss whaling away on big angry cyclopes in New World? Then you probably will want to be in the game's PTR, as...
First Impressions: Tarisland has some rickety bones but some solid muscle
I admit that it can be kind of hard to process Tarisland without immediately comparing it to a certain title. I've had no emotional...
Loftia checks in with progress on crafting, gathering, infrastructure, and dev tools
The cozy solarpunk "medium-ly multiplayer" Loftia might have been quiet, but it's most definitely not been idle if the November progress report from developer...
Lord of the Rings Online vows to beef up Corsairs of Umbar’s endgame
One of the criticisms that arrived in the wake of the latest Lord of the Rings Online expansion is that it has very little...
Tarisland devs address the decision to avoid P2W cash shop kit – but not Vigor energy gating
Tencent is apparently continuing to tweak its monetization for Tarisland in response to player angst as it continues charging through its second closed beta...
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
Lord of the Rings Online changes up lockbox offerings, kicks off new legendary reward track
Hope you Lord of the Rings Online fans claimed all of your legendary reward track goodies from Season 7 because as of today's patch,...
Wizard’s Wrath is a developing cross-platform VR spellcasting MMORPG on Kickstarter now
No, it's not a wizard's dream, but it is Wizard's Wrath, which might not have Christopher Lee singing but does plan to bring some...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 40 and Endless Archive content are live on console today
Console Elder Scrolls Online players, your last major update of 2023 has officially arrived today as Update 40 goes live, two weeks after the...
The Daily Grind: What’s clogging up your main MMO character’s bank right now?
Lord of the Rings Online seems deliberately designed to make even people who enjoy organizing inventories (me) a wee bit crazy about it. I...
Fractured Online’s return to early access sees bug fixing, a small server rollback, and mixed player reaction
It's time to once more take the temperature of an MMORPG's launch and today we're asking Fractured Online to open its mouth, say "ahh,"...
Wisdom of Nym: The best stuff from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 that’s already in the game
Whatever we were getting back from Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 is already in the game. Period end. And let's be honest, there was...
