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The MOP Up: Spellfarers lets you dabble in moon magic
The recently launched magic life sim Spellfarers Update 0.511 arrived with "lots of fixes, including to cooking, a new stove for Ilo's kitchen, minor...
Pax Dei on surviving the sandbox as a solo player: ‘Playing solo does not mean playing alone’
So here's the tricky thing about MMORPGs: Their greatest strength lies in their massively multiplayer nature, and yet sometimes we just don't want to...
Storyboard: Roleplaying in MMORPGs is much more common than you think
Back around the time when the game's first expansion was a going concern, there was a post on the World of Warcraft forums about...
Nightingale previews Realms Rebuilt’s story progression and revamped main campaign
Last week, Tencent's Inflexion Games took the wraps off a major inbound update for Nightingale dubbed Realms Rebuilt. The update, which is essentially the...
Massively Overthinking: Do the little things make or break an MMORPG?
Earlier this year, I did a video showcasing Star Wars Galaxies Legends player city overhaul, and in it, I admitted to something silly: A...
Conan Exiles’ Age of Heroes companions and living settlements will breathe more life into the sandbox
If there's one thing that many survival games lack, it's life. To me, one of the drawbacks of the survival genre compared to MMORPGs...
Snail Games reveals For The Stars, a sprawling new multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox
Snail Games has just unveiled a brand-new AAA MMO, not that it's calling it an MMO: For The Stars is being billed by Snail...
Pax Dei schedules plot cleanup for August 21 – with new criteria for which plots it’s deleting
Mainframe Industries has been talking up a big plot clean-up for Pax Dei for the last couple of weeks - and now we have...
Choose My Adventure: Aw man Pax Dei is just not for me
Have you ever been so diametrically opposed to a game that you knew right from the very beginning that it was going to be...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Previewing Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds story, warclaw, and homesteading
It feels like less than a year ago that Guild Wars 2 was launching its last expansion… oh wait, it was! Love it or...
The Last Plague brings back pandemic memories in a multiplayer wilderness survival sim
Since the gaming world knows that you've been missing all of the fun that 2020 had to offer, there's a new pandemic-themed survival game...
The Daily Grind: What’s something new you’ve done in an old MMO lately?
It's quite easy to fall into ruts and routines in MMOs, especially after you've been playing one for years. Sure, you could wait until...
Pax Dei is working on soloable PvE content, a HUD compass, and combat responsiveness for next updates
Pax Dei is continuing its information onslaught in Discord as Mainframe Industries took the opportunity this morning to post a state-of-the-game memo to social...
WoW Factor: The black mark of World of Warcraft’s player economy
Sometimes, I like to play a little game with MOP's Bree. I say I like to because the game is "Give Bree An Aneurysm,"...
Nightingale’s massive Realms Rebuilt update offers a crafting progression and structure revamp
Nightingale has drifted a bit out of the gaming consciousness since its early access launch earlier this year, but Tencent's Inflexion apparently means to...
No, Pax Dei isn’t going to delete all your houses while you’re on summer vacation
Remember last week when Mainframe Industries teased a plot clean-up for Pax Dei that would hopefully clear out some of the abandoned plots in...
Corepunk engages alpha four today with new biomes, trading, and mounts
And they're off! Corepunk's alpha 4 officially kicked off at 4 p.m. EDT today with an amusingly stoic preface from Artificial Core: "On the...
Pax Dei’s next major update will feature prettier crafting materials and crafted goods
If you had to run down a personal list of things that survivalbox MMORPG Pax Dei needed to work on, what would that list...
Fallout 76 prepares caravans and outpost management for its next update
Six years into Fallout 76 we still don't have guilds or text chat, but Bethesda is working on a new feature that should keep...
The Stream Team: The valley of resources in Planet Crafter
It's been a tad bit since Massively OP's MJ was able to make a little progress toward crafting her own personal planet in Planet...
