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Lost Ark issues a compensation package for its extended EU server merge maintenance
European fans of Lost Ark were effectively locked out from playing the MMOARPG earlier this week, when Amazon Games' big EU server merge ended...
Lost Ark’s big European region merge is underway – and taking even longer than expected
As promised, Lost Ark has begun a major round of region merging as of this morning.
While the North American servers are back up already,...
Former CIG employee speaks out about Star Citizen’s design trajectory and money burn
The headlines around Star Citizen and money continue to swirl. Hot off of the heels of yesterday's report about the game's new crowdfunding total...
Kakao is effectively sunsetting ArcheAge Unchained, merging it into two remaining western ArcheAge servers
The age of ArcheAge Unchained is over: Kakao and XLGAMES have apparently decided to merge the Unchained servers back into the regular ArcheAge production...
Lost Ark details the merging of Europe West region into Europe Central
How many regions of Europe is too many? Lost Ark has decided it has one too many, as it is merging the Europe West...
Elder Scrolls Online teases possible occult companions, plans EU Xbox hardware refresh tomorrowday
Elder Scrolls Online has two pieces of news this week. First, ZeniMax Online studios told players that the long-awaited hardware "refreshes" are continuing, and...
Grab an Eternal Return character and skin duo key from Kakao and MOP
Kakao's Eternal Return is just a few weeks out of the gate from early access to live, and already it's releasing its first big...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Las Vegas: All the big news from the patch 6.5 live letter
Let's not mince words: Final Fantasy XIV has every fan hyped up for the next expansion coming in about a year. But there's more...
Lost Ark is merging western and central Europe into a single region
Amazon is planning a set of a region merges for Lost Ark, this time smooshing the western and central chunks of Europe into one...
Aion EU adds amulets, Aion Classic EU grants a free bundle of goodies
While the launch of Aion Classic in Europe has received the most attention this past spring, it is prudent not to forget that regular...
Ethyrial Echoes of Yore merges servers, adjusts its three-month roadmap
It continues to be a perceptibly bad time in Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore, as the latest update has confirmed that there will be a...
ArcheAge’s June 22 update lets players become a gathering-focused Daru and fight in 10v10 flag wars
Sure, you could always do things like craft, gather, farm, and trade in the auction house in ArcheAge now, but what if you could...
Tower of Fantasy merges dozens of servers all over the world today
The anime-inspired Tower of Fantasy is cinching its belt and scooping all of its players into the same place with a massive round of...
MMO Business Roundup: SEGA’s layoffs, Diablo Immortal’s fines, and MY.GAMES’ Middle East ambitions
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news!
SEGA: Sega's issued yet another round of layoffs this week, slashing 121...
The EU has conditionally approved Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard
Today's Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout news won't come as a surprise to anyone who read the leaks last week, but yes, EU regulators have officially...
NCsoft’s Aion Classic launches the Revenant class and new Telos zone
Aion Classic's big news this spring has until now been focused on the launch of Classic in Europe under the Gameforge sigil, but this...
Black Desert’s Land of the Morning Light expansion will launch in June – here’s the new trailer
Just yesterday, we noted that while we knew Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light was still on the way, we still didn't have...
Casually Classic: Eight legacy MMOs to satisfy that old school craving
It was just five years ago in 2018 that MassivelyOP formally recognized an interesting and heartening trend in the MMO space: the rise of...
Aion Classic has officially launched in its third region: Europe
It's another launch day for Aion Classic as the throwback version of the game already live in South Korea (since 2020) and North America...
Aion Classic’s arrival in Europe has been delayed again, this time to April 25
So... Aion Classic's path to a European release has been a bit of a mess, and I can only imagine some producer at Gameforge...