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Blade & Soul previews Will of Iron’s heart rebalance and fishing overhaul
Just ahead of the holiday, NCsoft announced that Will of Iron was on its way to Blade & Soul, with the Rise of the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019
After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...
Choose My Adventure: How Citadel Forged with Fire made me like survival sandboxes in spite of its faults
So here we are at the end of my first real deep dive into a survival sandbox. Citadel: Forged with Fire is, by all...
Wisdom of Nym: Blue Mage in Final Fantasy XIV and what the update needs to deliver
The funny thing about Blue Mage in Final Fantasy XIV right now is that the only people still really mad about it are... the...
Skyforge’s Rock and Metal update lands December 17th with new dungeon and god form
Skyforge is getting one last big content push before the new year: It's called Rock and Metal, and it drops December 17th. The centerpiece...
BatMUD, a 29-year-old MMO, is now on Steam
Where were you in 1990? Did you even exist then? Because if you happened to be around 29 years ago, you could have jumped...
Massively on the Go: Pseudo-MMOing in Pokemon Sword and Shield
So one of the big draws of the new Pokemon Sword and Shield is the open-world exploration area of the game. It's expansive: It has 4-four-player...
Crimson Desert’s lead producer talks about PvE, co-op campaigns, and trade
Our own Black Desert columnist and many of our readers have pondered aloud just what awaits players in Crimson Desert, one of several newly...
Reading time is over: ArcheAge shutters its problematic library dungeon
Hope you got all of your overdue books turned in, because ArcheAge's Ayanad Library has closed its doors. Actually, the three-floor dungeon was causing...
WoW Factor: A brief history of allied races (and when a grind is not a grind)
All right, calm down, this is not actually going to be done in the same format as a brief history of flight, if for no...
Global Chat: Remembering the MMO fallen
A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...
Daybreak announces December launch dates for EverQuest’s Torment of Velious and EverQuest II’s Blood of Luclin
Classic MMO gamers have been able to preorder EverQuest and EverQuest II's big expansions for a while now, but there's one key thing they...
Guild Wars 2 lost yet another dev, this time a key living world designer
If you're starting to get more than a little worried about the line of developers departing ArenaNet, you're not alone. As the Guild Wars...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s Whisper in the Dark storyline
The first episode of Guild Wars 2’s new Icebrood Saga, Whisper in the Dark, has been out for a week now. MOP's Tina has...
Grim Dawn’s massive 1.1.5.0 update adds a roguelike dungeon and over 6000 item changes
The newest update to Grim Dawn is being touted in the changelog as the largest the game has ever seen, and with tweaks to...
The Elder Scrolls Online chimes in with another Activity Finder update
Yep, the Activity Finder in The Elder Scrolls Online is still busted. Yep, the devs are still working on it. That's effectively the brass...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 worships the sun
That glowing ball of thermonuclear radiation in the sky might just mean warmth and crispy tans for you, but for Destiny 2, it is...
Blizzard’s Joe Magdalena recounts a World of Warcraft bear that could kill players with a look
In most MMOs, bears are low-level foes that are part of some early stage kill 10 quest or perhaps used to harvest lower level...
Vague Patch Notes: Sub-optimal play vs. just plain bad play in MMORPGs
Something we need to start reckoning with when it comes to MMOs is the fact that it really is a problem when you're playing...
WoW Factor: Speculating on Shadowlands’ release date using math
Gosh, I love doing these math columns. Not just because I enjoy math, although that's definitely a part of it; there's something so satisfying...
