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EverQuest-inspired Monsters & Memories updates its fans on art progress
One fun little MMORPG project that we've been tracking this year is Monsters & Memories, a throwback-style virtual world that's being created by one...
EverQuest II’s Visions of Vetrovia gets a release date of December 1
Pack your booty and find your most stylish tricorne because EverQuest II is headed to the high seas to chart some new land. Or...
The Daily Grind: Are you bothered by boosting in MMOs?
A few weeks ago, the World of Warcraft playerbase was grumbly over a tweet from the new Blizzard co-president that encouraged boosting, which is...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
EverQuest activates dual giant and dragon raid events
Good omens come in threes, a trend that EverQuest likes to piggyback for several of its sporadic events. This month, Daybreak is combining two...
EverQuest II celebrates its 17th anniversary, hires a new tradeskill designer
Where were you back in November 2004 when EverQuest II first came on the scene? A lot of expectations were placed on this follow-up...
The Stream Team: 17th birthday celebrating in EverQuest II
Another year, another party! And even another quest! EQII turned 17 years old today, and Massively OP's MJ is on hand to celebrate. The...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Charles Boyd on BioWare, newbie acquisition, economy, and beyond
So it’s been two years since I wrote a piece on Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’m sorry. You’ll have to tell me what...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
EverQuest looks at 64-bit client and possible server merges for 2022
The EverQuest faithful are being treated to a big bump in morale this month thanks to a new producer's letter by Daybreak's Jenn Chan....
Massively Uplifting: Warframe fights cancer, Square Enix helps the Red Cross, and Extra Life 2021 looms
Summer has ended, school has started, and now the leaves have begun to fall as the air turns cooler. It's a time of coziness...
EverQuest’s perks are live as EverQuest II begins Visions of Vetrovia beta and preorders
In the beginning of September, we were all alerted to the incoming arrival of Perks, an additional layer of monetization on top of EverQuest's...
Perfect Ten: A completely accurate 10-point summary of MMO history
History! Let's be real here, it's pretty damn boring. No one cares about it, and it all happened beforehand, so why is any of...
World of Warcraft players grumble over Blizzard leader’s participation in boosting culture
If you thought the ousting of J. Allen Brack from the top of Blizzard and his replacement by a pair of Activision execs was...
The Daily Grind: Do you play humans or non-humans in most MMOs?
A while back, I saw a thread on Reddit about how most MMO players pick humans, and questions like this always startle me because...
EverQuest II’s Nights of the Dead Halloween event is officially live
The time for PTS testing is over and the Halloween season is now descending upon players of EverQuest II. The Nights of the Dead...
EverQuest and more Daybreak MMOs roll out Halloween 2021
EverQuest is having a good week: First Daybreak announced the game's next expansion, Terror of Luclin, and now it's rolled out the annual Halloween...
EverQuest’s 28th expansion, Terror of Luclin, is open for preorders, and it looks epic
One of the oldest games in our genre is about to get a little bigger: EverQuest has just opened preorders for Terror of Luclin,...
EverQuest II teases its upcoming Nights of the Dead Halloween event, now on PTS
It's almost Halloween time in EverQuest II, but before that the 2021 edition of the Nights of the Dead event has to go through...
