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H1Z1’s sixth season features paltry rewards and no actual patch features
Remember when Daybreak changed H1Z1's name yet again, presumably to distance the title's console version from the already floundering PC version (also known as Z1 Battle...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMO betas rob you of launch joy?
I use to think of betas as being unpaid labor for video game companies, but maybe I've been going about it all wrong. On...
Asheron’s Call would’ve been 20 years old this month, but the community isn’t dead
Ah, Asheron's Call. We miss you. You'd have been 20 years old this month, celebrating your antique status with the likes of Ultima Online...
TERA’s latest PC patch tweaks classes, offers new leveling event and sweet dragon mounts
PC players should point their eyeballs toward TERA this week, as En Masse has ponied up an update for the action combat MMORPG that's...
The Daily Grind: What was your ‘golden age’ of MMO gaming?
While history has yet to really settle this issue definitively, many MMORPG players seem to believe that we have already seen the great MMO...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 246: When rock bands play MMORPGs
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard and Square's financials, WoW, LOTRO, Pearl Abyss, EverQuest II, AQ3D, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and SWG, and mailbag topics on optional subs and Blizzard's lessons.
EverQuesting: Contemplating content and communication on EverQuest II’s 15th anniversary
You've no doubt heard of the quinceañera: It's the Mesoamerican coming-of-age celebration, a giant gala commemorating a girl's move to adulthood at age 15....
The Stream Team: Celebrating EverQuest II’s 15 birthday with a dragon attack!
A 15th MMO birthday is already impressive, but this one has dragons! EverQuest II has added a new event for this year's anniversary celebration,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest break you’ve ever taken from MMOs – and why?
A while back, MMO blogger and fellow SWG Legends player Napyet posted a video about a sudden burst of burnout he was feeling when...
EVE Online will officially arrive to Korea on November 14
Remember back in April when CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petersson said that the Korean and Chinese playerbase of EVE Online was due to expand...
Daybreak is still updating PlanetSide Arena, adds chat features and more
Early Access update #5 for PlanetSide Arena has arrived and... well, it's not exactly what one would call a barnburner of a patch, but...
EverQuest and EverQuest II launch new heroic servers
Daybreak Games has heroic server fever, and the only cure is more heroic server. Both EverQuest and EverQuest II are launching some new heroic...
Massively Uplifting: Gamers and studios raise millions for Extra Life and other charities
Had enough of the tricks of October? How about some treats now that we're in November! Generous donations #forthekids were collected by gamers and...
Global Chat: Fallout Last
Bethesda's busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is broken...
The Project 1999 EverQuest emulator is opening yet another server thanks to demand
The folks behind Project 1999, the officially sanctioned classic EverQuest emulator, have had about a week now to look at how the population of...
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO will be ‘different at a glance’ from LOTRO
Even as Lord of the Rings Online prepares to unleash Minas Morgul next week, Amazon Game Studios is working in the background to fashion...
Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’
Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs.
"Recently my game of choice,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 244: An Onslaught of news
Justin and Bree discuss Onslaught aka SWTOR's first expansion in three (!) years, Fallout 76's latest kerfuffle, the return of Kritika Online, ArcheAge's ArchePass confusion and rework, DDO's mounts, BlizzCon, and Halloween, with a mailbag topic on MMO toxicity.
Raph Koster’s new MMORPG will reward social gameplay, not just hack-n-slash
Since announcing he is building a new MMORPG with the apparently respectably funded new Playcraft studio, Raph Koster has been doing a long string...
Global Chat: Starting over in ArcheAge
The (re)launch of ArcheAge Unchained is of significant interest to certain parties who are hoping that this "do over" finally will propel this sandbox...