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Into the Super-verse: First impressions of Ship of Heroes’ mission beta
With other City of Heroes spiritual successors lagging behind in development, the weight of our hope for the future of superhero MMOs lays upon...
DC Universe Online’s next update arrives to PTS with a new social hub, endgame tweaks, and an allies system
Remember when DC Universe Online said that its August update was going to be "a significant departure" from its usual episode formats? If that...
Global Chat: How New World and Star Wars Galaxies are linked
New World and Star Wars Galaxies aren't often mentioned in the same sentence together, unless you're reading MMO blog Unidentified Signal Source. The author...
The Game Archaeologist: Defining the eras of MMORPG history
With MMO history stretching back to the early 1980s (and even before), this genre has accumulated a whole lot of history over the years....
For Science: Men roll more female characters than women roll male toons, new survey shows
Do you play MMO characters who reflect your gender in real life? Apparently, the answer depends a bit on which gender and how old...
Massively Overthinking: Are there any ‘blue oceans’ left in the MMO market?
Level Up Labs' Lars Doucet recently penned a blog post practically begging people not to try to compete with ROBLOX by remaking it as...
Perfect Ten: The top 10 non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Elves. Dwarves. Humans. Halflings. Gnomes. Hobbits. Dark elves. High elves. Half-elves. Wood elves. Keebler elves. Elvish impersonators.
Are you as tired as I am of...
PlanetSide 2 brings back its summer weapons, introduces new vehicle engine cosmetics
It's time once again for players of PlanetSide 2 to trade in their lethal firearms for some squirt guns as the shooter's summertime even...
Aliens: Fireteam Elite previews its soundtrack and difficulty modes
Beneath the sudden sparks of gunfire, the hissing of something hiding in the dark, and the sound of a team slowly stepping through infested...
Vague Patch Notes: Blizzard may live on, but it will never be Blizzard again
If you want to chart the moment when Blizzard stopped being Blizzard, you got a really nice data point when J. Allen Brack stepped...
EverQuest II plots Toil and Trouble for next week, teases dinosaur/centaur expansion
Daybreak's Jenn Chan has surfaced with a letter to the EverQuest II community this week that spills a few beans on the game's next...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 333: Dragon us back to Guild Wars 2
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, Pathfinder Online, Crimson Desert, and Week Two of the Blizzard Scandal, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, Albion, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on boycotts in the MMO space.
Star Wars Galaxies Legends just restored language-learning and expanded smuggler slicing
I have grumped before about logging into an MMORPG and having a mechanic upended so thoroughly that it's cost me days or weeks of...
The Daily Grind: What part of your MMO’s endgame do you participate in?
In the comments of our recent piece on the Guild Wars 2 legendary armory, several of our regular readers got into a discussion on...
The MOP Up: Warface tops 117 million registered players, Skyforge is up to 13 million
Warface -- no, not Warframe, it's that other game -- is being held up as one of the crown jewels in My.Games' portfolio. My.Games...
The Daily Grind: Do you reroll old familiar classes on MMO progression servers?
When Aion Classic opened its doors last month, I saw an intriguing thread on the game's subreddit about what class they were going to...
EverQuest II ushers in Tinkerfest 2021, EverQuest releases new Overseer packs
Summer is never dull in Norrath, and no matter what MMO you pick, there's something happening.
Over in EverQuest II, Norrath is in the grips...
Aliens: Fireteam Elite starts selling pre-order packs — now with bandanas!
For Aliens fans, August 24th can't come soon enough. That's the date when Cold Iron Studios' Daybreak-published Aliens: Fireteam Elite will deliver the latest...
The MOP Up: ArcheAge heads to the beach for sand and surf
Both versions of ArcheAge are urging players to take a break from their usual routine of species extermination to play in the sand and...
GDC 2021: Star Wars Galaxies was a complex game of corporate greed and fan love
It was an MMO built in about three years, with a miserable launch, a depressing churn rate, and the most infamous patch in all...
