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EverQuest II’s Shattered Overture update is live this afternoon
You knew it was coming, EverQuest II players, because Daybreak has been teasing it since August: Shattered Overture officially arrives to the core servers...
Massively Overthinking: The dumbest deaths in MMORPGs
This past week has been amusing for everyone in the MMO community and beyond who loves to watch people die stupid deaths in video...
EverQuest II begins public beta testing of its Shattered Overture update
Normally one wouldn't want to listen to a shattered overture because it's likely just someone banging on piano keys with a sledgehammer. However, EverQuest...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
The MOP Up: RuneScape’s community is ‘smashing’ that Necromancy skill
Jagex said that Necromancy has proven to be a huge hit in RuneScape, with the community taking to this new skill line like a...
EverQuest brings back its classic Stone Cold Summer event for 2023
EverQuest vets might be familiar with the Stone Cold Summer event, but for those who aren't, just know that this event first debuted in...
EverQuest II opens test servers for its next major update, Shattered Overture, on August 29
Darn it, EverQuest II, we told you not to run while playing with your overture! Now it's all shattered! That means when players log...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs whose worlds were built from scratch
Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...
EG7 Q2 2023: Daybreak’s MMORPGs are ‘predictably stable’
It's starting to look as if the Daybreak-run EG7 conglom is finally at the end of its bonkers revenue run: According to the Swedish...
EverQuest II reruns the Oceansfull Festival with new rewards and adjusted encounters
The final portion of EverQuest II's Summer Jubilee series of events is back once more, as the 2023 Oceansfull Festival is back with new...
Global Chat: Fresh voices on the MMO blogging circuit
It's August, which means that it's also Blaugust -- an annual celebration of blogging! For this month, experienced bloggers and newbies alike are joining...
EverQuest II brings Rise of Kunark to Varsoon server, reschedules Shattered Overture open beta to August 29
It's not often that a beta test gets pushed to an earlier date instead of a later, but that's just what has happened for...
EverQuest’s Living Legacy Raid event returns for a month of carnage
Debuting in 2008, Living Legacy was a promotional bundle designed to bring EverQuest players back into the fold before morphing into a raid-centered festival....
Singularity 6 interview: Palia is the cozy cottagecore sandbox to beat as it begins closed beta
The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...
War of Dragnorox pivots to Eternal Tombs moniker with new combat style and beta signups
If you ever missed the days of classic MMOs like Ultima Online, EverQuest, and Asheron's Call when live gamemasters put on events for the...
Trion Worlds’ Scott Hartsman ruminates on the tricky business of MMO sequels
As the former lead of EverQuest II, SOE and Trion Worlds' Scott Hartsman knows a thing or two about working on an MMO sequel....
The MOP Up: MapleStory rebuilds the legendary guild castle
MapleStory broke out the second part of its two-part summer Savior update which is "packed with a new mystical land to discover, a new...
The MOP Up: Gamescom and QuakeCon prepare to storm August
As the end of summer approaches (ack! how?), gaming conventions rev up again - and that includes big industry galas like GamesCom and in-house...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Mac, the O.G. classic server
In 2003, Sony Online Entertainment tried an experiment to reach out to the (then) small-but-growing community of Mac users. The company released EverQuest Macintosh...
