dev diary
Here’s how World of Warcraft’s cross-faction guilds will work in Embers of Neltharion
World of Warcraft players who've waited almost two decades to put all their toons from both sides of faction war into the same guild...
New World deep-dives the creation of its in-game languages
To understand this week's New World video from the Amazon devs, you need to know first that a conlang is a made-up language -...
EVE Online is putting its new launcher and graphical upgrades to the test today
MMO launchers follow a very basic principle: Nobody ever notices a good one, but a bad one can sully the whole game. Which one...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Frozen Flame launches survival mode ‘open beta’ today
It's a release day of sorts for survival MMO Frozen Flame, as it launches its survival mode into what it's calling "open beta," though...
Foxhole studio announces Anvil Empires, a persistent war sandbox MMO with thousand-person battles
If you thought Foxhole is a great MMO - as we sure do - and were wishing its devs would expand their skills to...
Valheim teases Ashlands biome, Hildir’s camp, and ‘fortress time’
Still riding high off the early access launch of survival sandbox Valheim on Xbox earlier this month, Iron Gate Studios is back with a...
Broken Ranks takes a closer look at upcoming legendary item tweaks and a new endgame instance
Players of Whitemoon Games' tactical turn-based multiplayer RPG Broken Ranks have some new content just on the horizon, which fans might remember was detailed...
Neverwinter readies an underground trial full of illusions and traps for unwary visitors
You know what's a fun word to quickly say six times in a row? "Menzoberranzan." And you best be practicing that too because Neverwinter's...
New World breaks down the creation of Fire and Fellowship’s new Fire Storm heartrune
With an update name like Fellowship and Fire, you probably expect that New World would be adding some flames to its gameplay - and...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Swordsman X Survival, Legend of Lunia, and X8
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's random and recurring roundup of a few MMOs you've never heard of! Maybe you've heard of some of them. You're...
Lost Ark’s Artist class launches in the west next week – with outfit alterations
We're just a week away from the release of Lost Ark's latest patch and the new Artist class - though Amazon is reminding players...
Conan Exiles outlines upcoming golem shaping mechanics and the journey system revamp
While you can put people under your thrall in Conan Exiles now, it's arguably a bigger flex to make golems that follow you around...
Ashfall provides a brief peek at its crafting system and some of the high-level items players can make
The NetEase post-apoc MMO shooter Ashfall is back once more with another quickie dev blog that's all about crafting. Or at least a short...
Chronicles of Elyria boss justifies website rebuilding, communication, and re-opening the Discord
Last month, Soulbound Studios' Jeromy Walsh wrote another long-form address discussing the merging of design documents for Kingdoms of Elyria and its erstwhile (i.e.,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go kicks off Rising Heroes by lurking in shadows
Pokemon Go players know better than anyone that Niantic's really not great at communicating. Not only did the new season, Rising Heroes, launch in...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s What Lies Beneath, the next End of Dragons story, has launched
Happy anniversary to Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons expansion! Can you believe it has been a whole year? In some ways I feel...
Lord of the Rings Online’s delvings to see nerfs, improvements, and dungeon expansion
When Standing Stone Games introduced the delving system with last year's Before the Shadow mini-expansion, it was banking hard on this difficulty slider being...
RuneScape will be getting quest list filtering and sorting updates thanks to a game jam test
Last October the devs of RuneScape took a break from updating the MMORPG to work on personal projects related to the title in an...
Overwatch 2 players question Season 3 balance, find an invincible statue, and beg for a Mei-killing homing grenade
Yes, we appreciate that headline is a melange of weird and disparate pieces of Overwatch 2 news, but some of these things are a...
Mad World issues dev blogs about pets and gems while continuing to crank out preview videos
It's been another couple of months since we peeked in on Mad World, so it's about time we circled back around to Jandisoft's socials...
