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The Daily Grind: What expansion launch day still generates your fondest memories?
You might be surprised to learn this, but not only does my fondest expansion launch day memory not relate to an expansion that has...
EverQuest II teases next week’s Lure of Darkness update and announces a new PvP progression server
You've had one EverQuest producer's letter, yes, but what about second EverQuest producer's letter? In fact, it's literally the EverQuest II producer letter, which...
Fight or Kite: The myth is still real in Myth of Empires’ latest Persian DLC release
Call me a fool because once again I’ve duped myself into playing the latest DLC content that was released for Myth of Empires. Based...
Classic EverQuest outlines its May progression server’s ruleset: expanded start with resource hunter
Classic EverQuest's latest producer letter is not going to shock anyone who read Daybreak's full roadmap back in January, but it does have a...
Star Wars Galaxies’ SWGEmu declares 1.0, plans a scale-down and sunset, and announces SWGRealms
If you're a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server fan, especially of the pre-NGE variety, there's a lot of info coming your way from the...
LOTRO’s six-month roadmap teases the kinship refresh, homesteading currency, and Crown of Hamat
Over the last month, most of the information we've been getting out of Lord of the Rings Online has been coming from forum posts...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO expansion that you never, ever want to play again?
Not every MMORPG expansion can be a winner, of course, but it does seem that there tends to be one or two that becomes...
Wisdom of Nym: First impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Seekers of Eternity content
Here we are again with a new Final Fantasy XIV patch, and while there is a lot of interesting stuff happening on the story...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XI is worth a second look after two decades
The second part of an interview with famed manga artist Mamoru Nagano is out, in which he talks about what he likes about Final...
Destiny 2 prepares for Heresy’s next act, collabs with Sea of Thieves, and discusses efforts to retain players
Even though this year's Game Developers Conference is long gone, we're still getting peeks at how the gaming sausages are made in many respects,...
WoW Factor: Evaluating World of Warcraft’s allied races seven years later
At the tail end of an exciting expansion cycle, World of Warcraft: Legion saved one last big surprise for the community. In 2018's Patch...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play isn’t always the MMO that was designed
There was, for a brief period of time, a window when World of Warcraft was moving toward a more deterministic gear structure that de-emphasized...
Amazon says it knows it made Throne and Liberty’s solo dungeons too hard, and it’s fixing them
So how are Throne and Liberty players feeling about the Wilds of Talandre at this point? Because no matter how much you might be...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 511: Heroes shall arise
Justin and Bree discuss Dune Awakening's monetization, Guild Wars 2 expansion delay, Marvel Heroes' rogue server, the decline of extraction RPGs (and demise of Seekers of Skyveil), and new MMOs Crosswind and Spirit Crossing, with adventures in LOTRO, World of Warcraft, and Sims 4.
‘It’s all coming back, just as you left it’: Fawkes hypes the return of Defiance with a new teaser video
Last week, we got the surprising but welcome news that Fawkes Games is unsunsetting Defiance, Trion Worlds' old "transmedia synergy MMO, come April 18th....
Interview: Mother Machine talks inspiration, platforming, and pining for an MMO
I'm generally pretty picky when it comes to roguelikes, but I also really adore cute-looking platformers, so when I was first introduced to Mother...
Ultima Online is launching a new server as it brings New Legacy to its thriving Japanese playerbase
Ultima Online is actually about to launch a new server - specifically, a New Legacy server for the Japanese region.
The 27-year-old MMORPG has a...
EverQuest II’s GU128, Lure of Darkness, begins open testing next week
If you can remember back to January, when Daybreak released full 2025 roadmaps for the EverQuest franchise, you might recall that EverQuest II set...
Hearthstone prepares for the Emerald Dream by refreshing its rewards track
Hearthstone is about to head into its next expansion on March 25th, but there are some housekeeping duties to be performed before this happens....
ARK Aquatica is a ‘non-canonical’ DLC map for ARK Survival Evolved arriving in June
Yesterday we gathered together the slightly chaotic news pouring from Studio Wildcard related to ARK: Survival Ascended's next major update, which saw the studio...