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Vendetta Online discusses Chromebook support, trading improvements, and capital ships with a legacy
It's the journey and not the destination that's important, as the axiom goes, but recounting that journey in a spaceship sandbox can often only...
Shroud of the Avatar adds mounts, the Breach, map changes, and economy changes in R83
Release 83 has landed in Shroud of the Avatar, and with it comes a whole lot of changes as outlined in the official newsletter. High...
Massively Overthinking: Doing crimes and getting punished in MMORPGs
A couple of weeks before Dual Universe's snafu banning beta players for taking advantage of a developer's poorly permissioned structure, I saw the game's...
The MOP Up: Phantasy Star Online 2 hands out more treats than tricks
Phantasy Star Online 2 fans can log in this week to enjoy a nice burst of additional content, including the fourth and fifth chapters...
Massively Overthinking: How do you know you’ve fallen hard for an MMO?
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I want to bounce off something MOP's Chris tweeted a few weeks back. "I can tell a game's hooks...
Massively Overthinking: How to deal with cheater scum in MMORPGs
I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters...
EVE Online’s Depths of the Abyss is live as CCP updates policies and World War Bee 2 endures
EVE Online has lots going on this week, from patches to policies to drama. Let's dig in: First, this week's patch, Depths of the...
RuneScape assumes responsibility for the oddment ‘exploit,’ discusses Penguin Hide and Seek rework
Yesterday saw the devs of RuneScape offer up another weekly livestream about a rework to Penguin Hide and Seek, but before it launched in...
Path of Exile’s Heist expansion will launch on Mac with full crossplay
What's better than getting a new Path of Exile league? If you are a Mac user, it's getting the game on your favored operating...
Path of Exile’s Heist expansion lets players infiltrate Rogue Harbor on September 18
Are you tormented by the unrequited desire of executing a daring caper, perhaps pilfering a rare antique or infiltrating a secure vault, all because...
Jagex backpedals slightly on a RuneScape ban wave related to Treasure Hunter keys and oddments
Last Monday, RuneScape developer Jagex issued an announcement regarding actions taken against player accounts who were found to be cashing out items to receive...
Rockstar wipes out characters caught using a money exploit, sending cheaters in to a rage
You would think that the instruction -- either direct or inherent -- to not cheat in a game would be common sense, but as...
Conan Exiles adjusts avatars and followers in console patches, moves on to PC
Usually in multi-platform MMOs, the PC version is the first to get updated and consoles follow shortly after (likely thanks to the differing certification...
Fallout 76 addresses the CAMP system uproar, says it’s working on a solution
Yesterday, we covered the "colossal problem" patch in Fallout 76 that caused the entire subreddit to melt down in fury over changes and bugs...
PlanetSide 2 is finally nerfing the Firestorm implant in today’s update
Daybreak's Rogue Planet Games is rolling out an update for PlanetSide 2 this morning, focused on tweaks to the Firestorm implant that effectively nerf...
The Daily Grind: How should MMORPGs handle duping scandals?
The title for today's Daily Grind isn't exactly what you think it is, so consider this a trick to see who read the whole...
WoW Classic sees another 40,000 accounts banned for botting and RMT as cases surge
The war against the hungry bot horde continues in WoW Classic. Shortly after Blizzard gave 74,000 accounts the boot, the devs have once again...
New UK parliament report recommends regulation of lockboxes as gambling
Remember last month when UK lawmakers started making fresh noise about classifying lockboxes/lootboxes as gambling to protect children following multiple reports and surveys on...
World of Warcraft brings back Single-Minded Fury in Shadowlands
All of you who play Warriors in World of Warcraft and like to be in the class of characters who flip out and break...
Elite Dangerous plans Fleet Carriers launch for June 9, with bug fixes and mining balances along the way
Elite Dangerous' Fleet Carriers may have been delayed from last year, but the update is on track now: Frontier formalized a June 9th launch...