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Raph ‘Designer Dragon’ Koster reminisces on 25 years of Ultima Online
While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs push players through different content types?
MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an interesting question about wildly different content types and the MMOs that either nudge or force...
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?
Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...
Gloria Victis enhances its visuals, reshapes the edges of its world, and revamps systems in latest update
Back in June the medieval MMORPG Gloria Victis had detailed some of the things it needed to do to head out of early access,...
Four Winds: What made Lost Ark so successful where Elyon failed?
I'm sad about it, but I have to eat my words about Elyon and its place in this decade's pantheon of MMOs. I honestly...
Wisdom of Nym: Making money in Final Fantasy XIV isn’t what you think
So let me start with a statement: Gil is pretty much irrelevant to me in Final Fantasy XIV because I already have enough. We...
Lord of the Rings Online is about to give soloers a way to earn raid gear
In an hour-and-a-half Q&A video this past Friday, Standing Stone Games' Allan "Orion" Maki took the center stage to field numerous questions from the...
Zenith’s next update adds another event quest that awards cosmetic items
Not every update to the VR MMO Zenith can be the side of the Celestial Throne update, but players might also be hoping for...
MMO shooter Stay Out launches new areas, gameplay improvements September 15
Stay Out, the free-to-play MMO shooter we've covered previously that, depending on your read on the old English-language threads about it may or may...
Massively Overthinking: The weirdest ways we’ve leveled in MMOs
One of my favor flavors of fluff post we do occasionally is report on folks who have accomplished fame by leveling "wrong" in MMOs,...
Modders are transforming Mordhau into an open world multiplayer survival sandbox
Most are familiar with Mordhau as a "multiplayer medieval slasher" that pits teams of players against one another in first-person or third-person melee combat;...
Fight or Kite: First impressions of Dysterra, a cybernetic post-apoc survival sandbox
In the future, our home Earth is beset by a host of economic and environmental disasters. It got so bad that people with resources...
The Stream Team: Celebrating Wizard101’s 14th birthday in Krokotopia
Massively OP's MJ is sad that she wasn't able to celebrate Wizard101's lucky 13th birthday, but she's very glad she can make it this...
Camelot Unchained offers up a whole newsletter about gathering tools and processes
What are Camelot Unchained fans waiting for nine years after its Kickstarter? Presumably, finalized launch information and more signs that the game is getting...
MMO dev Raph Koster disambiguates sandboxes, themeparks, simulation, and stagecraft
Veteran MMO developer Raph Koster, who himself is working on a sandbox MMO couched in a metaverse, is back with another dev blog this...
Massively Overthinking: Who’s really paying for MMOs?
Two years ago, we did a piece on dark patterns in MMO design, and in the comments, a reader named Shadex De'Marr penned a...
World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King prepatch launches in WoW Classic tonight
Blizzard's massive autumn World of Warcraft blitz continues today with the release of the Wrath of the Lich King's prepatch in WoW Classic. As...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Standout moments from 10 years of Guild Wars 2
Time sure flies when you're slaying Elder Dragons, doesn't it? Is it really possible that it has been a decade since our characters first...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO system you just do not understand no matter how hard you try?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired by a blog from friend of the site Ocho over at Casual Aggro in which he chronicles his attempts...
Cinderstone Online showcases a dungeon and siege, plans for a September 1 open beta
There's been quite a bit of time since we last checked in on Cinderstone Online, the adorable-looking 2.5-D MMORPG that started life as Fioresia...
