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Third time’s a charm? Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe forester event is finally live
If it seems as if Standing Stone Games has been talking about the Combe Forester event in Lord of the Rings Online for an...
Destiny 2 teases next week’s Festival of the Lost Halloween event
Regular players of Destiny 2 are likely familiar with the Festival of the Lost, the looter shooter's annual Halloween celebration. so word of its...
EverQuest releases video and preorders for its December expansion, Laurion’s Song
Last week, Daybreak took the wraps off... well, kind of a lot of content for its six remaining MMORPGs, actually. But among them was...
Pax Dei discusses classless characters, consensual PvP, and grueling corpse recovery post-death
Last summer, the devs of sandbox MMO Pax Dei asked players for "patience" regarding an alpha date and promised more info about the PvE...
Vitae Aeternum: Rise of the Angry Earth mounts and flail are the lift New World needed
New World's first expansion is here, although if I'm being honest it feels more like the second expansion, considering the scale of the Brimstone...
Embers Adrift goes free through November 5th for its first anniversary
The first anniversary for indie MMO Embers Adrift arrives this month, and Stormhaven Studios is capitalizing on the moment to entice players to its...
Global Chat: So who’s ready for EverQuest 3?
Hibernating fans of the EverQuest franchise stirred from slumber this past month to hear that EG7 and Daybreak may actually be progressing with a...
LOTRO Legendarium: Are we ready for LOTRO’s Corsairs of Umbar?
They say that as you get older, time seems to pass by much more quickly. Perhaps that explains why 2023 feels like it's been...
Black Desert Console receives three mythical horses and the Awakened Maegu in latest patch
Usually the middle of the week sees Black Desert absolutely bursting at the seams with news, but the PC version is quiet this time...
Perfect Ten: The delicate balancing act of designing MMORPGs
MMORPGs are complicated. We all know that. But one of the things that I think is easy to overlook is how and why MMORPGs...
EverQuest II opens preorders and beta for Ballads of Zimara expansion, coming in November
Bards, listen up: EverQuest II's 20th expansion is launching next month, and it'll be music to your ears, literally. It's called Ballads of Zimara,...
Into the Echo’s worldbuilding narrative website Journey Across Raava leaves early access
Early access for a website is over and a full release is now. This is the unironic announcement heralded by Into the Echo developer...
Kisnard Online is a 2-D pixel graphics ‘hobby project’ MMORPG available on PC and Android
There's yet another solo dev two-dimensional pixel art MMORPG out there, and since we try and cover every corner of our genre, we're taking...
Dark Age of Camelot celebrates its 22nd birthday with experience and PvP boosts
Broadsword has a busy anniversary season ahead of it: A week ago, Ultima Online celebrated its 26th birthday, and now Dark Age of Camelot...
Lord of the Rings Online talks crafting, says Corsairs of Umbar pre-orders begin ‘real soon’
The latest Lord of the Rings Online developer livestream may have been mostly about the big crafting changes coming to the MMO this fall,...
Destiny 2 adds new weapons, details Checkmate mode updates, and confirms Season 23 gunsmith tweaks
The end of the week always means a newsletter from Destiny 2, and this edition of the post features another round of updates for...
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft sets alpha for early 2024, picks up Austin Wintory and Rachel Hardy for the score
Earlier this week in our coverage of BitCraft's crafting and economy deep-dive, we pointed out that studio Clockwork Labs has been teasing something big...
Post-apoc survival shooter The Front confirms early access launch date of October 11
Over the course of this year we've been following the development track of The Front, a post-apocalyptic "survival open-world crafting" shooter that was introduced...
Embers Adrift adds crafting dyes and patterns while readying its alchemy system
As Embers Adrift works on a new alchemy system for the near future, its September patch arrived with a whole lot of bug fixes...
Lord of the Rings Online studio pushes back against maintenance mode claims
There are a lot of wild conclusions you could leap to after hearing the report that EG7 put an end to the 2020 remaster...