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Four Winds: The early leveling experience in Amazon’s Throne & Liberty
In the last edition of Four Winds, I covered the opening hours of my journey through Throne and Liberty. Overall, the tutorial island did...
Daybreak confirms work on EverQuest 3 is happening, though it might not be called EverQuest 3
It would be easy to presume that the future of EverQuest is largely about putting forth new expansions for the existing two titles instead...
Stars Reach unveils the earliest stages of its player housing homesteading system
Development on Playable Worlds' Star Wars Galaxies-esque MMO sandbox Stars Reach is continuing at an apparently speedy pace: The latest dev blog heralds the...
PlanetSide 2 confirms NA server merges, plans new assault facilities and faction-agnostic mecha for 2025
This year marks 12 years since the launch of PlanetSide 2, which means that the game is now older than PlanetSide was when the...
Massively Overthinking: Breaking the load-bearing mechanics in MMORPGs
The parable of Chesterton's Fence has been making the rounds on social media this week in a political context, but I want to talk...
Cozy MMO Palia teases Season of Splendor and Winterlights for tomorrow
I don't know about you, but I most definitely did not expect to be hearing so much praise for the newly purchased Palia in...
EverQuest II’s 21st expansion, Scars of Destruction, officially launches today
Strap on your sword belt and memorize your full book of spells, for EverQuest II is calling the faithful back to its fold for...
EVE Vanguard broadens its test pool starting Thanksgiving weekend
If you've been watching from the sidelines throughout CCP Games' testing of EVE Vanguard, then next weekend might be your moment, as the studio...
Daybreak touts new Harley Quinn vs. Apokolips rewards for DC Universe Online
What do you get when you pit Harley Quinn against Apokolips? Well, you get the most recent episode in DC Universe Online, obviously, but...
Stars Reach says it ‘heard you loud and clear on graphics improvements’
Last week's Stars Reach trailer captured a lot of attention - so much that studio Playable Worlds decided to focus this week's dev blog...
Perfect Ten: Why I still love Final Fantasy XI today
You know what's really funny to me when I think about it for more than five minutes? Final Fantasy XI is, at this point,...
EG7 Q3 2024: EverQuest, LOTRO, and Palia gave Daybreak its best quarter all year
The quarterly financials avalanche continues this week with Enad Global 7, better known to MMORPG fans as the company that bought Daybreak and then...
Stars Reach’s new trailer shows significant visual improvement – and a partial list of professions
Late last night, Playable Worlds dropped a new trailer for Raph Koster's incoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, along with an update for its NDA.
As...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends is working on two theme parks – including one from an Ewok movie
Earlier this week, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends dropped a developer diary for October with several teasers for the content the player...
EverQuest II’s Scars of Destruction expansion now has a hard date of November 20
The fact that EverQuest II is getting an expansion toward the end of the year is not any sort of revelation, given that Daybreak...
PlanetSide 2, fresh off an EU server merge, kicks off its 12th anniversary celebrations today
Somehow, the news that PlanetSide 2 is turning 12 years old this month strikes me as both way too high a number and way...
Daybreak’s MMO Extra Life teams combine to raise over $150K for children’s hospitals
We would venture to say that a story to restore a little faith in humanity is probably necessary for a lot of folks right...
DC Universe Online introduces its new Outsider Ops with Katana to incentivize new challenges for players
It's gotta be rough being part of the Outsiders in DC Universe Online, especially if you're Katana. Nobody takes you seriously after your one...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is cracking down on shady game mods
Heads-up, folks who mod in ancient emulators: The Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is cracking down on mods, though hopefully not the...
New books about EVE Online, Second Life, and EverQuest are on the way
You've played the game, now read the story. Or read the story out of curiosity about a game you would otherwise never play. Or...
