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Star Wars: The Old Republic fills up January’s event schedule with snowballs, ghouls, and relics
While Star Wars: The Old Republic just wrapped up its 11th anniversary celebration, it's not leaving the month of January barren. Several events fill...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v6.0
And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...
Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world
Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...
Jukebox Heroes: Looting plenty of MMO holiday music to cheer your soul
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from us here at Jukebox Heroes! Well, it's me and the pizza delivery guy that I trapped in the...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2022
One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...
Pirate101 and Wizard101 highlight a charity speedrunning event for the holidays
While the newsletters coming out of both Wizard101 and Pirate101 might be kind of thin in terms of new content is concerned, they both...
Gamigo transfers publishing of Aura Kingdom, Grand Fantasia, Shaiya, and Last Chaos amid layoffs and Aeria portal closure
It just wouldn't seem right to end the year without watching Gamigo light itself on fire, now would it? Fortunately, the company has indulged...
Star Wars The Old Republic raises currency caps and makes specific lightsabers appropriately shiny
When your character turns on a lightsaber in Star Wars: The Old Republic, you expect a few things: that satisfying ignition noise, that trademark...
Chris Metzen returns to the World of Warcraft team as a ‘creative advisor’
Who had this on the "biggest surprise" bingo card? Blizzard has apparently rehired Chris Metzen to work on World of Warcraft and its extended...
Aliens Fireteam Elite adds a new vertical horde mode map with holiday-themed rewards
Even in a shooter like Aliens: Fireteam Elite, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. A xenomorph-infested Christmas that will see players work...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 399: Dragonflight takes to the skies
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Dragonflight's launch; New World's 2023 roadmap; the sunset of Elyon and Forsaken World; new content for EverQuest II, Wizard101, Embers Adrift, Guild Wars 2, and Elite Dangerous; plus adventures in LOTRO, MOP's end-of-the-year awards, and a mailbag topic on auto-scaling in MMOs.
Monsters & Memories preps for a friends and family playtest, hopes to ‘invite the broader community’ soon
Monsters & Memories, the indie MMORPG from Niche Worlds Cult, has made its regular monthly check-in to recount progress made on development in November,...
Roblox’s sketchy monetization attracts kids, parents, and hungry corporations alike
Would you pay your kids' allowance in virtual currency? That's the frame for a piece today on The Wall Street Journal, which offers an...
EverQuest II: Renewal of Ro launches today
Squeaking in under the wire to make a November launch, EverQuest II's latest expansion, Renewal of Ro, launches later today.
Players find themselves returning to...
Wizard101 invites players to the surrealist world of Novus in latest update
When a world arrives that sounds like some strange amalgamation of multiple realms, presented as a gift by "some thing," there might be reason...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Mythical Wishes season needs to win players back
Without a doubt, Pokemon Go's Season of Light has been the roughest season yet, plagued with not only miscommunications the company is practically known...
Diablo Immortal’s latest update launches its seventh battle pass and merges multiple servers
If your dream has been to wander the maps of Diablo Immortal dressed up like a stone statue, then this week's update is ready...
The Daily Grind: What type of MMO merch are you most likely to buy?
Back in October, MJ linked a time-limited funding drive from Pirate101 that included one of my major weaknesses: adorable plushies. In this case, they...
EverQuest: Night of Shadows is coming on December 6
No matter where you go in the EverQuest universe, there's going to be a launch this holiday season. A week after Daybreak releases EverQuest...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever learned anything useful from MMOs?
Earlier this fall, my family went on a hike in our favorite spot to check out the autumn foliage, and my husband started talking...
