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Overwatch 2 previews Season 9 updates to competitive play and characters
Overwatch 2 has already painted a broad picture of the changes to competitive play due for the shooter's Season 9, but now director Aaron...
Players rolled nearly 50K characters during Nightingale’s stress test last weekend
When Inflexion announced this week that it's planning to launch Nightingale's early access two days earlier than originally planned, it casually mentioned that it...
Monsters & Memories recaps player testing – and teases in-game housing
Niche Worlds Cult is back this week with an update on everything the indie studio accomplished in January on its throwback MMO Monsters &...
Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith is launching a spinoff F2P co-op RPG called Zenith Infinite Realms
Zenith - the Kickstarted VR MMO that has yet to actually produce the PC-centric version promised during that campaign - has been hinting at...
Reign of Guilds recounts its December playtest and shares patch notes for its next no-wipe test
This past December saw the PvP sandbox Reign of Guilds hold its sixth playtest. That naturally means that developer Atlant Games has gotten some...
MMO Business Roundup: Krafton likes AI, Call of Duty moderation, and German lockbox regulation push
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. We've got a lot to cover, so let's dive right in.
Krafton pushes AI...
These are the accessibility features Nightingale will – and will not – offer in its early access and stress test build
"One of our goals with Nightingale is to bring people together and create memorable experiences for players of all backgrounds," opens Inflexion's latest dev...
Survival MMO Age of Water previews hostile NPC factions and boat construction
On Monday, we dropped a big interview with Gaijin-funded Three Whales Studio, which is aiming to launch its Waterworldish post-apoc oceanfaring survival MMO Age...
New World’s Year of the Dragon mini event rings in Lunar New Year starting February 7
Amazon's latest New World dev blog and video is going ham on a holiday that is slowly but surely taking over the MMORPG festival...
New World’s loot biasing was meant to reduce bad feelings’ over RNG
How many times have events in MMOs caused you to drop to your knees, shake your fists at the sky, and curse your RNG...
PlanetSide 2 explains upcoming Sunderer updates as a needed step in overall vehicle balance
Last month, PlanetSide 2 made some big proposals for the persistent war FPS's 2024, one of which being a rework to the Sunderer vehicle....
Blade & Soul NEO Classic continues its Cinderlands highlight with a look at bosses and monsters
Attentive fans of Blade & Soul might have noticed that the last Cinderlands preview for the NEO Classic server was labeled "Part 1," so...
Hawaii-themed zombie survivalbox Fractured Veil finally makes its early access release to mixed reviews
After a multi-year series of delays, Paddle Creek Games has made the early access launch for its survival sandbox Fractured Veil, inviting players to...
Skull and Bones previews its endgame takeovers, heists, bosses, and ship combat
If there's a genre of dev blog I like least, it's the one where studio staffers pretend to offer an unbiased blog post or...
Guild Wars 2 divulges its new plan for legendary rune compensation in the next patch
Legendary relics! No, ArenaNet is not calling you old; it's heralding the new craftable coming in its third big chunk of the Secrets of...
Tarisland’s new story trailer takes another cue from World of Warcraft
Tarisland fans have not been wanting for fuel to power the mighty hype engines of this upcoming MMORPG. On top of dev blogs and...
Anvil Empires introduces new settlement structures, including windmills, in latest pre-alpha
Siege Camp's upcoming sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires continues flying unobtrusively under the radar as it soars through development, and its latest developer blog is...
Valheim, three years in early access, plods along on development of its Ashlands biome
It's apparently survival sandbox week here at the end of January, as Valheim has resurfaced with a fresh dev blog. The game, which next...
Blade & Soul NEO Classic details Cinderlands redesign, combat refresh, and the end of gear upgrades
Blade & Soul continues the impressive trick of talking about its NEO Classic server while also holding its cards close to its chest at...
EVE Online tweaks Havoc insurgencies, preps monthly EVE Vanguard tests for subbers
This week's EVE Online patch builds on the Havoc expansion CCP Games dropped before the turn of the new year, with both graphical and...
