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NCsoft Q3 2024: NCsoft teases Aion 2 for 2025, says Throne & Liberty sales ‘surpassed internal projections’
It's been one hell of a quarter for NCsoft - and we mean that for every interpretation of the phrase.
As readers might recall, in...
Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale
With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version...
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...
Design Mockument: Exploring alternatives to the typical MMO trinity
Here's a fun thing for you: I swear that way, way back before the game launched, there were documents from the Guild Wars 2...
SMITE 2 adds Ra and Sobek to the game’s roster as closed alpha marches on
Readers who have gone down particular rabbit holes online over the past several years will probably look at the headline on this particular piece,...
Design Mockument: Alternate trinities in MMORPGs and the challenge of other roles
The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn't. I came up during the small times...
Here’s how Tarisland’s first season will finally fix combo classes
Blessedly, Tarisland's latest Frost Dragon Elegy post is absolutely devoid of lore, though you might be wishing it were just lore by the end...
LOTRO Legendarium: The easiest LOTRO virtues to get as a low-level character
One of the most important yet easiest to overlook parts of your character's growth in Lord of the Rings Online is investing into virtues,...
Warcraft Rumble brings a new unit and the Scholomance dungeon with this week’s Season 8 launch
Are you ready for a Scholomantic good time? Who cares if that's not a real word? It's the best one we can think of...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with numbers in MMORPGs
I recently saw a post on the official World of Warcraft forums noting that if not for the game's almost infamous level squish, players...
Storyboard: The fine art of letting your character fail in MMORPG roleplaying
Do you know why tabletop roleplaying games use dice? Every game designer ever will lie about the reason. The reason cited is to create...
Gigantic patches in balance and bug fixes ahead of its first major season
The Arc team behind Gigantic is more than a little excited at the upcoming first competitive season for the game, which kicks off on...
Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the burgeoning gacha gaming industry
In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was...
Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all
So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...
Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail media tour: Hands-on with the Pictomancer and Viper
It's Stormblood all over again when it comes to Dawntrail because Final Fantasy XIV has once again handed us a new melee job and a...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online’s enormous new Neaths zone
Do you remember when you were a kid and you got to poke around and explore a cool place? You'd eagerly run around it,...
PSA: Skull & Bones will be free-to-play for a week starting on May 30
While much of the focus out of Ubisoft's piratical multiplayer title Skull & Bones has been about May 28th's Season 2 release and all...
Vague Patch Notes: Why I am no longer anticipating Blue Protocol
Last year, I was pretty jazzed about Blue Protocol. I've actually been pretty jazzed about it for a while, but last year it looked...
Microsoft continues shrinking ZeniMax and Xbox with voluntary severance deals
Sure, Microsoft shuttered a bunch of studios and added more layoffs to its pile earlier this week, but it can't possibly get worse, right?...
LOTRO continues Update 40 testing with underground side quests and bog-guardian shrinkage
Now that Lord of the Rings Online players have spent a half-year getting to know the alleyways and warrens of Umbar Baharbêl, the studio...
