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Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward
In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World's first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including...
New World’s first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, launches October 3 with mounts, flails, new housing, and more
New World's 2023 roadmap promised its first expansion, but until now, we had few details on what that meant. Recently the folks at Amazon...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 435: Guild Wars 2’s secrets revealed
Justin and Bree discuss Gamescom, Nightingale, Crimson Desert, WoW Classic's hardcore servers, ArcheAge's devastating merge, and TennoCon's Warframe and Soulframe news, with adventures in LOTRO, Baldur's Gate 3, and Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's latest teases.
Star Trek Online Incursion launches for PC on September 12, starring Garrett Wang, Kipleigh Brown, and Erin Macdonald
Star Trek Online players will soon be boldly going back into the Multiverse plotline with the release of Incursion, coming to PC on September...
Grim Dawn unveils its Fangs of Asterkarn expansion and version 1.2 update
Bundle up for some frigid weather, Grim Dawn fans. The ARPG has just introduced its next expansion, and it will indeed take players to...
Black Desert Mobile gets Land of the Morning Light in September, opens season characters today
The Heidel Ball presentation for Black Desert Mobile had some big reveals for fans of the mobile MMO over the weekend, as Tuesday, September...
Casually Classic: Hardcore realms are merely a Band-Aid for WoW Classic
Let's pause for a hot minute to absorb the fact that WoW Classic just hit its fourth anniversary. For the reheated leftovers of an...
New World team promises a ‘deep dive’ on the expansion next week
You have questions for New World, questions that perhaps might be answered with the latest Forged in Aeternum Q&A video. Game Director Scot Lane,...
The Daily Grind: Does a quarterly content cadence work for MMORPGs?
I've been mulling over Guild Wars 2's new content cadence for a while now, but last week's roadmap of what to expect in the...
Warframe’s Whispers in the Walls adds new narrative, hub, and Tenno ‘skin’
What is TennoCon but the opportunity to debut something big for Warframe? Every year Digital Extremes introduces players to new and exciting content that's...
EverQuest brings back its classic Stone Cold Summer event for 2023
EverQuest vets might be familiar with the Stone Cold Summer event, but for those who aren't, just know that this event first debuted in...
WoW Factor: So what is Mike Ybarra teasing for the future of World of Warcraft?
As we are all waiting for Twitter to finish imploding under its current ownership (because nothing is more fun than rich idiots buying things...
Vague Patch Notes: Internet killed the MMORPG star
If you ever need to understand why MMORPGs today look so different from how they looked back in 1997, there are a lot of...
Dungeons and Dragons Online begins testing its next unnamed raid
Not content to sit on their Laurels of Mini-Expansion Release +2, Dungeons and Dragons Online's developers are charging ahead with the next big step...
WoW Factor: Long-shot potential additions for World of Warcraft’s next expansion
Last time we were here, I wound up just talking about potential class and race additions for the next World of Warcraft expansion. As...
Recapping Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure launch
We can't say that the launch of Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure release went off without a hitch, but it was relatively...
The Stream Team: Starting Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
What craziness is this?! It's launch day, and Massively OP's MJ is diving right into the content -- while it is current! Though fortuitous...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 434: Wayfinder finds the way to early access
Justin and Bree discuss Wayfinder, Palia, DCUO, and Guild Wars 2, with adventures in LOTRO and GW2, plus mailbag topics on spoilers in expansion reveals and the rogue servers of the distant future.
Lord of the Rings Online pushes update 37, The Humble Homes of The Holbytlan, to next week
Confusion over the moving parts of Lord of the Rings Online's roster of late summer updates has been palpable over the last few weeks,...