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It's a very happy birthday to EverQuest, which marked its 23rd birthday this week following its release back in March 1999. Let's just absorb...

"Mom," cries EverQuest II, "I want a community resource council!" "You don't need a community resource council," replies the game's mother, currently staring at the hand-knit...

It has almost become a running joke in MMO circles that pretty much every new studio and new title these days was founded by...

Apropos of nothing, today I wanted to dive into my extensive backlog of unlistened MMORPG music and make a bit of a dent. One...

St Patrick's Day is next week, which means all the Daybreak MMOs that celebrate the event are pulling out their festivities - and that...

Last weekend, my play group took a second batch of Guild Wars 2 alts to Cantha, and we found ourselves a bit grumbly about...

The Ravendawn team reported that it recently wrapped up a successful and "epic" Alpha 4 test. Now all attention is aimed at Alpha 5...

What better way to celebrate an MMORPG's past by actually reliving it? That's the opportunity being granted to EverQuest II players once again as...

Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, Black Desert Mountain of Eternal Winter, DDO's 16th anniversary, WoW's Eternity's End, EverQuest II's level-agnostic server, and Elder Scrolls Online's account-wide achievements, with adventures in LOTRO, DDO, ESO, and Guild Wars 2, plus a voicemail on faction identity in MMOs.

If you happen to be a raid-loving player of EverQuest II and want an opportunity to have your thoughts and feedback heard directly from...

To kick off this week's parade of MMO essays by bloggers in the virtual trenches, SWTOR site Going Commando gave us an honest review...

Any MMO gamer who plays old MMOs or listens to developers (or rogue server developers) talk about keeping those old games alive has probably...

Overnight, Swedish gaming company Enad Global 7 posted its Q4 2021 financial report, which of course is useful to MMORPG players as EG7 has...

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...

No matter where you look in the EverQuest world these days, something huge is happening. Daybreak announced that the OG Norrath just got its long-promised...

Earlier this winter, Daybreak dropped a ton of details about what to expect from EverQuest and EverQuest II over the course of 2022. What...

Erollisi Day is sweeping over the lands of Norrath, and both games in the EverQuest franchise are celebrating the "power of love" -- and...

While MMOs may ask us to experience them for the long haul, first impressions still count. And if those impressions aren't favorable right out...

It's time, finally, for EverQuest to level up. Daybreak announced that the long-running MMORPG will receive a major upgrade next week, as the studio plans...

You may have to bear with me on this one, but lately I've started to suspect that the pendulum of MMO development has swung...