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Massively Overthinking: The WoW Dragonflight and Wrath Classic roundtable
So this week's Massively Overthinking is going to cautiously stick a paw into the beehive of World of Warcraft, thanks to the reveal of...
Stick and Rudder: Using No Man’s Sky Outlaws as a way to fill the space sandbox void
Hello Games just keeps on proving itself over and over again. That's been the overall reaction whenever No Man's Sky makes an update from...
Indie sandbox Prosperous Universe emerges from early access to launch on April 20
We've been keeping an eye on indie MMORPG Prosperous Universe for almost five years now. It's a browser-base space sandbox that's heavy on spreadsheets...
Crowfall has kicked off a 10-day custom Dregs campaign called Wolfe
Last week, Crowfall rolled out the prepwork for what it called "campaign configuration knobs" - essentially, tools that would allow the developers to adjust...
Richard Garriott is building a blockchain MMO following the failure of Shroud of the Avatar
Richard Garriott is working on a new MMORPG, and yes, it's filled with NFTs.
Garriott, who is probably best known to mainstream gamers as the...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMO suffers from the most useless housing system?
A few weeks ago, I was showing my seven-year-old around Villagers and Heroes, and she wanted to get herself a house. I warned her...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
Star Citizen discusses the features of alpha 3.17 in a not-so-livestream
Usually the Star Citizen Live broadcast out of Star Citizen is... well, live. However the latest episode of the series was pre-recorded. Still, it's...
CCP Games walks back EVE Online’s bargegate fiasco, plans ship packs ‘made for new players, by veterans’
The past few days have seen many EVE Online players up in arms over the sale of a mining barge bundle that CCP Games...
Blade & Soul’s Unchained Chaos is live with new dungeon and Gunslinger’s third spec
Blade & Soul players have a lot to take in this week as Unchained Chaos is now live for the NCsoft MMORPG. The crown...
Lost Ark says it’s slowing content rollout to bolster economy and avoid rushing players to endgame
Amazon and Smilegate delivered a joint address to the Lost Ark playerbase late last night, though whether it sufficiently assuages the core community concerns...
EVE Online streamers organize an ‘EVE Blackout’ to protest CCP’s monetization of the sandbox
The complaints about EVE Online's recent monetization moves are not going away despite CCP Games' best efforts to keep its head down. Some streamers...
The Daily Grind: Are you irritated by paid server transfers in MMORPGs?
A few weeks back, MOP's Eliot covered a World of Warcraft sale that caught my attention: Concurrent with the launch of Eternity's End, Blizzard...
EVE Online player reps to CCP on the mining barge fiasco: ‘Please stop this sale and don’t do it again’
Yesterday, we covered CCP Games' controversial implementation of a pay-to-win Prospector Pack in EVE Online. The $24.99 bundle includes a "ready-to-fly" mining barge that...
Dark Age of Camelot brings out some RvR bonuses as Travelling Merchants resume their travels
The latest catch up event for Dark Age of Camelot has ended, which means that players are now going to need to do different things...
EVE Online players are fuming over the new pay-to-win mining barge
Pearl Abyss-owned CCP Games has once again dropped a hive of live bees into the lap of the already-irritated EVE Online community, this time...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers from the worst inflation?
Last week, I got a pingback on my old personal blog: Another site had linked to my 2011 article about inflation in five MMOs...
Massively on the Go: How pokedex building could be used for server-wide ‘science’ questing
Well, I'm sorry to report to multiplayer gamers that despite having online features like New Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Legends: Arceus is very much a solo game,...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO armor is completely ridiculous
This is probably a rant best saved for another day, but I want to know when it became completely acceptable not to demand that...
Hyperspace is a new MMORPG sandbox that sounds neat except for the blockchain play-to-earn parts
There's a new MMO on the horizon quite literally: It's called Hyperspace, and it's the first game from Scottish game studio Carbon Based Lifeforms....
