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New World acknowledges survival game ‘friction’ in its travel, storage, and other systems
Telling players it's received "over a million" pieces of feedback on the game so far, Amazon has a new dev video and blog up...
EverQuest II’s level-agnostic progression server, Kael Drakkel, is open for play
EverQuest II's latest "lore and legend" progression server, Kael Drakkel, is live as of this week for subbers. First announced a month ago, the...
The Wagadu Chronicles has kicked off its alpha-1 phase today
As promised, The Wagadu Chronicles begins what Twin Drums is calling alpha-1 as of today. "The first closed Alpha-1 will last a week from today...
Nightingale studio Inflexion has been sold to Tencent – and it’s still launching this year
Tencent is apparently continuing its gobbling-up of all the games and studios you're interested in: Improbable just announced it's sold Inflexion Games to Tencent...
Bitcraft explains its philosophy of skills and progression in a new development diary
As you have probably gathered from what's been mentioned about Bitcraft before now, the game is not meant to be an experience wherein you go...
Pantheon’s first playable HDRP build is now in QA testing
Pantheon's regular monthly newsletter has arrived to players today, heralding an internal milestone for Visionary Realms: a playable HDRP build heading to QA testers....
The Wagadu Chronicles offers a list of features coming in its first closed alpha test
This past January, The Wagadu Chronicles announced that it was heading towards its first public closed alpha this month. There's still no hard calendar...
World of Warcraft previews the process of crafting mounts and pets in Eternity’s End
There's a big narrative focus in patch 9.2 of World of Warcraft on being in Zereth Mortis, a forge of creation. This does not mean...
Pirate101 and Wizard101 bring back the Friendship Festival as KingsIsle talks Pirate101 development trajectory
While Valentine's Day is technically behind us on the calendar, KingIsle's MMOs Wizard101 and Pirate101 are still very much in the spirit of love....
Destiny 2’s new Witch Queen trailer heralds next week’s expansion arrival
Don't get too excited yet - it's not actually time to launch Destiny 2's The Witch Queen expansion. That's coming on February 22nd. What's...
Embers Adrift touts crafting, character, and quest improvements as beta barrels its way
With a closed beta on the way for March 1st and a hopeful launch date later this year, Embers Adrift will need to prove...
Jagex posts job openings for a new open-world survival crafting title
Most people are familiar with Jagex as the company that does RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, but sometime in the future we all might...
Survival MMO Frozen Flame updates closed beta crafting, targets Q1 2022 early access
We've had our eye on crowdfunded survival MMO Frozen Flame since 2020, and it's been poking along in closed beta ever since. At the...
Crowfall tasks players with confectionery crafting for Valkyntine’s Day
I have to admit that I didn't imagine that Crowfall would have a Valentine's day event queues up, what with its population struggles and...
WoW Factor: Winds of Change, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
We still have no idea what the next expansion for World of Warcraft will look like, which is kind of absurd. We didn't even have...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of ‘mule’ characters in MMORPGs?
Back in the long long ago, the concept of a mule in an MMO - that is, a character you rolled but didn't really...
Massively Overthinking: What else could Blizzard do to fix World of Warcraft?
Last time in Massively Overthinking, our writers and readers sure did have a lot of good ideas to fix New World that Amazon won't...
Blade and Soul will be the Valentine’s date you can’t get this year
Hey, can we talk real right now? It's not your fault that you peaked with Valentine's Day in the sixth grade when you got...
Choose My Adventure: Zenith opened me to new dimensions of MMO interactivity and weirdness
After picking up an Oculus Quest 2 in the interest of expanding our coverage (and as a present to myself and others in my...
Hands-on with Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons’ newly unveiled jade bots mastery
With the launch of Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons less than a month away, and the release date finally revealed, ArenaNet has held...
