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MMO studio Daybreak is named 2023 Extra Life Partner of the Year, posts 2024 fundraising plans
Daybreak's charity work has paid off: This week, Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network named Daybreak Games its Extra Life Partner of the Year...
Microsoft prepares price hikes for Xbox Game Pass this fall
If you've been using Xbox Games Pass to access your MMOs and other online games, steel yourself for a significant price hike. Microsoft is...
The Soapbox: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, mortality, remembrance, and last chances
Earlier this week, at least at the time of this op ed's writing, I completed the main story for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail, and...
Warcraft Rumble introduces Cenarion family minis and the Moonglade zone in Season 7
The quick-hitting mobile mini battling title Warcraft Rumble has decided to invite the Cenarion family over for its Season 7, bringing on several new...
Massively Overthinking: Do you have a ‘mental block’ in MMORPGs?
Back in June, MMO blogger Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut penned a fun blog about having had a mental block against tanking.
"Something happened...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft in the 1990s
MMORPGs don't pop out of nowhere, ex nihilo, to suddenly be enjoyed by players across the globe. Good ones take several years, dozens of...
Gamigo offloads Desert Operations and Wargame 1942 publishing to Fawkes with only two weeks’ notice on migrations
Remember back at the end of 2020, when Gamigo began rather obviously to divest itself of most of its publishing agreements and video games,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s July spread is basically just marking time until Go Fest
It's not particularly surprising that, once again, Pokemon Go isn't really sharing a lot of details about what's in store for the month of...
WoW Factor: MMORPG raiding is not special
You all remember The Incredibles, right? I know that these days the hot take is to try to spin the film as some sort...
Wizard101’s Cabal’s Revenge patch is live with a new raid for endgame guilds
Happy patch day to Wizard101 friendos: Cabal's Revenge is officially live in KingsIsle's family-friendly MMORPG as of this morning. The update pits players against...
Black Desert revamps quests on PC, unites gathering tools on console, and increases rewards on mobile
That's right, Black Desert has once again got a bundle of new things for players across all of its platforms, and it looks as...
Sigh, yes, a man tried to bludgeon another man with a hammer IRL over ArcheAge
File this one under "why we can't have nice things:" Yahoo reported last night that a feud in ArcheAge went way too far, as...
Piffsy is a new social MMO with llamas and dancing
My friends, have you heard the word on the cyberstreets about this new social MMO that released a couple weeks ago? It's called Piffsy,...
One Shots: When the cuteness dug too deep
In this past week's adventures, Utakata claimed to have plumbed the great depths and mysteries of Khazad-dûm... with a mouse-person. I don't remember that...
SGF 2024: A quick look at Capcom’s Monster Hunter Stories Collection
I know many people looking at will see "Monster Hunter" in the title here and wonder why it doesn't say, "Wilds," but that comes...
Black Desert simplifies gathering and fishing on PC, brings a plant centaur boss fight to mobile
If you're all about those life skills in Black Desert on PC, or if you've never thought to try them out, then you're likely...
Bohemia’s adorable multiplayer pirate sandbox Ylands is headed to Switch as a B2P offline version
We hadn't even heard of Ylands before today, but now we wish we had; it's apparently Bohemia's 2019 cozy - and very tiny -...
Persist Online interview: CipSoft explains why Persist is an MMORPG, not a survival shooter
Earlier this week, we covered the surprising news that Tibia developer CipSoft has a new MMORPG on the way. At least, the studio is...
Lost Ark’s big region merge of South America into North America East has begun
As promised, Amazon has begun the Great Mergening in Lost Ark with today's maintenance release. OK, nobody's really calling it that, but we should....
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared Skies season without sharing much info
We're entering the summer season in Pokemon Go, and this one is called Shared Skies. If you ignore the repeat info from the upcoming...
