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The Repopulation previews new tutorial island, lore timeline, and upgraded development servers
The Repopulation's latest dev update is giving me some serious Star Wars Galaxies player city vibes, but then I guess that was always part...
H1Z1 patches in quick fixes for its mammoth Season 3 update on PlayStation 4
Adding a whole lot of stuff to a game in a patch can also break things. It's not intentional, but it's inevitable. H1Z1 had...
SWTOR gives a skimpy roadmap while Star Wars Galaxies is remembered… in song form
It's a two-for-one Star Wars special in this post today! A short post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums shed a very...
EverQuest reworks progression server rules while EverQuest II’s new servers are weeks away
EverQuest fans, mark your calendars for March 16th. The 20th anniversary date of the first title in this franchise will see four specialty server...
LOTRO Legendarium: Examining 2019’s amazing producer’s letter
I swear, the news never fails to make a monkey out of me. Just the other day I was grousing about how it was...
The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Guild Wars 2?
Last night's devastating news that NCsoft was forcing Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet to make major layoffs definitely shook me, even more than the...
Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis
Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...
Hyperspace Beacon: The Star Wars MMOs and communities beyond SWTOR
Time flies: I am now coming up on nine years of covering Star Wars: The Old Republic professionally. Of course, I was a Star...
Leaderboard: How worried are you for PlanetSide Arena and Daybreak right now?
Daybreak's Friday-night revelation that it is delaying PlanetSide Arena to summer made me worried. Actually, the revelation that the company would be refunding everyone...
DC Universe Online launches game update 92 today and preps for St Patrick’s Day
If you woke up just now and are eagerly planning to jump right into DC Universe Online, we've got some bad news for you, as...
The Game Archaeologist: Terra, SubSpace, and Sovereign
In the MMO industry, science fiction has always taken the role of the overlooked little brother to big sister fantasy's popularity. Sure, there have...
Daybreak is delaying PlanetSide Arena again, this time to summer 2019, and it’s refunding preorders too
It's late Friday afternoon, Daybreak's favorite time for dropping bad news, and here it is: PlanetSide Arena's PC launch is being delayed until summer 2019.
"After...
PlanetSide 2 updates carbines and spawns on the test server while celebrating love in the live game
The latest patch to PlanetSide 2's test servers has some pretty far-reaching changes to the game's spawn system. Previously, the system didn't really direct you...
Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...
Vague Patch Notes: On play conditioning and the lecture of experience in MMOs
Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...
Blizzard devs characterize layoffs as a ‘bloodbath’ as pro-unionization effort calls for Bobby Kotick’s resignation
A day after Activision-Blizzard announced record earnings and began laying off a reported 800 people, we're finally getting a clearer picture of the full...
EverQuest’s new progression servers are coming next month amid heavy player criticism
When March 16th rolls around this year, it will be important for two reasons. The first is that this date will mark the 20th...
H1Z1’s third season brings FFA deathmatch, ranked leaderboards to PS4 on February 21st
Although Apex Legends is currently dominating the battle royale scene, genre-progenitor H1Z1 is still looking to keep itself fresh and exciting as it prepares...
DC Universe Online’s Justice League Dark episode launches March 28
Even if you're not a big fan of DC or superheroes, as an MMO fan you've got to be secretly pleased that DC Universe...
PlanetSide Arena’s latest build comes to the closed beta test
A huge patch is coming to PlanetSide Arena's closed beta servers, and Daybreak is hoping that the changes therein will make this battle royale experience that much...
