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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...
Vague Patch Notes: When MMO designers build traps for players
So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...
Vague Patch Notes: Getting meta in MMORPGs
This week, MOP's Chris ran afoul of the MMO meta when he was going through New World. Only he... didn't, not really. He ran...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO rotation
Rotations! They're not just just for your tires any more; they're in your MMORPGs, determining what order you should press the shiny buttons on...
Aion Classic EU announces Rise of the Revenant patch with the new Revenant class
The EU version of Aion run by Gameforge has a big update in store for Aion Classic: Update 2.7 Rise of the Revenant. The...
Embracer confirms layoffs of nearly 1400 people were part of efforts to ‘always maximize shareholder value’
It's only mid-February but already we have a lead contender for most vile CEO quote of 2024: Embracer Group's third quarter fiscal report is...
Disney invests $1.5B into Epic Games with plans to create a ‘huge Disney universe’ in Fortnite
Seeing Disney's various IPs in Fortnite isn't exactly news by this point, but it appears as if there will be a whole lot more...