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Guild Wars 2 exhibits Secrets of the Obscure’s rift hunting in another new vid
When Secrets of the Obscure launches later this month, Guild Wars 2 isn't going to abandon old Tyria in favor of the new zones....
The Stream Team: Starting Neverwinter’s final elemental evil adventure, water
Air, fire, and earth are all completed, so the only elemental evil epic adventure Massively OP's MJ has left in Neverwinter is water. Sadly,...
Guild Wars 2 shows off the landscapes and points of interest in latest Secrets of the Obscure trailer
Time to get hyped for Secrets of the Obscure: The Guild Wars 2 team at ArenaNet has dropped a new flip-through trailer highlighting "some...
Pearl Abyss Q2 2023: EVE surges, Black Desert stumbles, Crimson Desert hedges
August is a month of quarterly financials, and the season hasn't been kind to the type of MMO company that publishes its numbers. So...
New World’s Luck of the Bones portal-summoning event looks somehow familiar
If you're starting to feel a little sluggish about New World's current season, fear not because Amazon is preparing a little pick-me-up in the...
EverQuest II brings Rise of Kunark to Varsoon server, reschedules Shattered Overture open beta to August 29
It's not often that a beta test gets pushed to an earlier date instead of a later, but that's just what has happened for...
Guild Wars 2 previews Secrets of the Obscure’s skyscale skills and implementation
One of the key highlights of Guild Wars 2's impending Secrets of the Obscure expansion is easily the overhaul of the skyscale mount, the...
Perfect Ten: Every expansion era of World of Warcraft ranked
For a long time, I have been considering this particular column just because, well, it's an obvious one. If you have a column whose...
Black Desert Mobile releases the Wizard as console adds Imoogi serpent boss
Black Desert's console and mobile versions are rolling out big updates today. For starters, the mobile edition has welcomed the Wizard, who "bombards his...
NCsoft Q2 2023: Throne & Liberty delayed as revenues, mobile games, and MMOs decline
While we've already covered the major delay to Throne & Liberty revealed during NCsoft's investor call this week, there was more to the financial...
Solarpunk MMO Loftia nears $500K on Kickstarter, addresses stretch goals and pledge tiers
As Loftia inches ever closer to the $500K crowdfunding mark after its blowout Kickstarter debut, the "medium-ly multiplayer" solarpunk game has offered up some...
Square-Enix Q1 2024: Overall profits and MMO sales drop as FFXVI underperforms
The latest earnings report for Square-Enix has been released for the period ending on June 30th, 2023, and it's good news for the company...
First Impressions: Palia is missing the depth MMO life-skillers are hoping for
"Life-sims" are another of those game genres that I like in theory, but less so in practice. Most have graphical styles I find off-putting,...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D players spend five billion gold… in a weekend
A recent gold boost event led to a record-breaking level of transactions in AdventureQuest 3D as players splurged on augments.
"This was a new record...
Destiny 2 deep-dives Season 22 as Bungie pursues cheat seller ring in court
With the current Season of the Deep now having roughly three weeks left to it, Destiny 2 is looking to the season ahead to...
LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s forests from maddening to awesome
J.R.R. Tolkien famously loved nature, and that passion seeps into his creation of Middle-earth. To him, the great outdoors was not something to be...
Design Mockument: What would a Transformers MMORPG even look like?
Everyone who has read my work here for a while knows that a Transformers MMORPG is a longstanding element of my pie-in-the-sky wishlist. This...
Blizzard champions Undaunted, a World of Warcraft guild for hearing-impaired players
Players who have adventured through World of Warcraft: Dragonflight no doubt enjoyed getting to meet a major centaur NPC who communicates via sign language....
Vague Patch Notes: Contemplating the origin of the Big Five in the MMO space
A few weeks back, I talked about the various tiers of MMORPGs, and that included a discussion of what we call the Big Five...
Hearthstone welcomes this summer’s Titans card set
It's expansion week for Blizzard's Hearthstone, as the digital card game welcomed its latest 145-card set: Titans. This xpack includes the new Forged and...
