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The Cycle plans closed beta on September 30 and previews rewards for veteran players
The development track for PvPvE shooter The Cycle has been a nebulous thing for a while now. Originally set to launch on Steam last...
Vampire survivalbox V Rising discusses crafting, castles, and your insatiable thirst for blood
V Rising has been on our radar for a few months now; it's a multiplayer survival sandbox that's trying to make vampires cool again...
Starbase previews moon base building and moon mining features in a video
Care to build your own Moon Zero Two? Eventually you'll be able to in Starbase, though it will most likely be more utilitarian and...
Albion Online’s Call to Arms 10 arrives ahead of this weekend’s season start
PvP players, you've been called to arms, quite literally, with Albion Online's latest update. Call to Arms Patch 10 has arrived as of today,...
Wisdom of Nym: Reactions to Final Fantasy XIV’s job changes from the live letter
One of the things that excites me every time about Final Fantasy XIV is the way that the game can tell you up-front exactly...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why do we know so little about Fate of Gundabad?
Over the past few months, my general sense of rising hope for Lord of the Rings Online has been tempered by a nagging disquiet...
Kickstarted MMO sandbox Fractured enters fall alpha on September 22
Dynamight Studios is gearing up for Fractured's next testing phase, as it's announced this week that the fall alpha will begin on September 22nd....
Trove asks players to side with fae or undead in latest event, releases the Bard class to Xbox and PlayStation
If you had to choose between undead horrors or trickster faefolk, which would you go for? That's the question being asked of Trove players...
Bless Unleashed PC introduces a new high-level boss fight and new dungeon in latest update
If you've got a character that's between level 35 and 42 in Bless Unleashed's PC version, you've got some new content to face with...
Time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases new video and alpha signups
Back in August, we covered a newly unveiled time-travel MMORPG called Into the Echo. Canada-based ETLOK Studios pitched the game as one with "traditional...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that would be better off without crafting?
Crafting is important. I like crafting. In games that do it well, I flat out love it; in games that do it decently but...
City of Titans’ senior gameplay engineer talks about creating super-powers
Crafting perfect powers is essential for any superhero MMORPG. If they don't look, feel, or function in the impressive way that players expect, it...
EverQuest starts selling monthly perks on top of subscriptions
How can Daybreak milk even more money out of subscribers? EverQuest is trying out a new à la carte promotion to add monthly bonuses...
Black Desert launches Conquest War pre-season, sets Season+ server launch for next week
Conquest War has returned to the world of Black Desert as the pre-season has begun. MMO players will recall that this mode is basically...
Starbase pushes back moon bases, capital ships, and station siege gameplay in newest roadmap update
It sucks when a game has to delay a bunch of features, but that's just what the crafting-minded sandbox Starbase is forced to do....
Nightmare is a new F2P pixelart MMORPG that’s launched on Steam today
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the launch of a new MMORPG! We're talking about Nightmare, a new open-world retro pixelart MMO from the indie...
Wisdom of Nym: A look at Trusts in Final Fantasy XIV before Endwalker
Trusts are simultaneously one of the most important and most invisible features of Shadowbringers on a whole. A whole lot of work goes into...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst type of minigame in MMOs?
Today's Daily Grind was inspired by Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril, who penned a fun piece on minigames a few weeks back. Oh,...
The Stream Team: Romping around the new build of multiplayer RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff
It's time yet again for another run around in something a bit different. Specifically, the adorable multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff, which...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ideas that were ahead of their time
I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...
