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Ethyrial Echoes of Yore posts summer roadmap with server merges, player housing, and XP rescaling
With its reviews sinking into the blood-red "mostly negative" bin on Steam and its lead dev reducing his activity on the project, Ethyrial Echoes...
Embers Adrift highlights its recently released Flooded Ruins update with new video and upcoming livestreams
An update called Flooded Ruins seems pretty self-explanatory, but that isn't stopping Embers Adrift from showing off as much of this new patch as...
Villagers and Heroes iterates on its brand-new interior player housing system
It's not every day when we can point to a patch and say that it's a literal game-changer, but Villagers and Heroes' Homestead update...
Craftopia confirms a June launch window for its large-scale seamless world update
The weird and wide-open survival RPG Craftopia is about to get more wide-open than before, as the seamless world update that developer Pocket Pair...
Mad World’s latest patch adds more dungeons, new areas, a PvP arena, and crafting tweaks
Jandisoft's MMOARPG Mad World is continuing to crank out the updates this week, with the latest introducing more new areas and adjustments to existing...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up the End of Dragons era with What Lies Within
It's the end of an era: Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons era of content comes to a close with today's episode, titled What...
Embers Adrift discusses player feedback and moderation while preparing events for its free weekend
The weekly community show from Embers Adrift is now online, and once again it has some useful information for players of the MMORPG, as...
Co-op survivalbox Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore launches in early access July 18
This past February, we first reported on Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore, a developing multiplayer survival sandbox that leaned heavily on players working together...
Wisdom of Nym: Top takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s The Dark Throne patch notes
I have to say that whole "preliminary" patch notes thing that Final Fantasy XIV has been pulling for years now has begun to wear...
LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again
Weren't we just here?
I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...
Final Fantasy XIV posts the preliminary patch notes for The Dark Throne
The Dark Throne is so close you can almost taste the throne. Which is weird; you shouldn't be tasting thrones unless your name is...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
Post-apocalyptic MMO shooter Ashfall opens registrations for July’s closed beta
Announced last fall, Ashfall raised some curious eyebrows with its post-apocalyptic "adventure shooter MMORPG" format. We've only heard a little bit about it since...
Nightingale has seen another early access delay – it’s now set for fall 2023
People said we were mean to doubt Nightingale's early access release in the first half of this year, but the game has already seen...
New World devs talk loot, progression, crafting, and the player-driven economy
On this week's Forged in Aeterum, Amazon's Senior Systems Designer Tony Morton and Product Owner Phil Bolus sit for a discussion on New World's...
Star Citizen Live talks up a new ship manufacturer and alpha 3.20’s new derelict settlements
Once again, Star Citizen is using its regular weekly video digest to peer farther into the horizon before alpha 3.19 and alpha 3.20 even...
Some Assembly Required: Red Dead roleplay servers succeed where Red Dead Online failed
One of my all-time favorite single-player game experiences was Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. The underserved Western genre is beautifully realized in this open-world...
Design Mockument: Let’s bring back WildStar, only good this time
The other night, a couple of us were talking in work chat about missing WildStar. I also miss WildStar... or more accurately, I miss...
Indie MMO Genfanad aims to shore up combat and more ahead of Steam launch
Kickstarted indie MMO Genfanad dropped a dev blog last night describing its new philosophy for development going forward. Readers will recall that the game...
Perfect Ten: Romantic ideas for an MMO virtual date
While MMOs may not last forever -- or even a few years, in some cases -- the relationships forged in them can endure long...
