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WoW Factor: Why trying to draw back former MMO raiders doesn’t work
World of Warcraft has gone harder on its raiding focus in recent years in a lot of ways, starting with Warlords of Draenor and...
World of Warcraft hopes to have cross-faction guilds by the end of Dragonflight’s run
A new Team Liquid interview with World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas unearthed a few indicators of where the game is going in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best way for MMO vets to help new players?
One peculiar quirk of the Guild Wars 2 Steam launch is that there are - how to phrase this kindly - a lot of...
The Stream Team: Neverwinter’s Elemental Evil Adventures
Now that the Undermountain is fully explored, Massively OP's MJ is ready to delve into the next set of Neverwinter adventures. And the emphasis...
Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...
Enter to win a Guild Wars 2 Complete Collection Steam code, courtesy of ANet and MOP
In celebration of the launch of Guild Wars 2 on Steam this week - not to mention the game's 10th birthday! - ArenaNet has...
The future of player housing, ‘hoods, and hooks in Lord of the Rings Online
Last week, Standing Stone Games ran an audio Q&A on the Deco du Milieu fansite focused entirely on Lord of the Rings Online's housing,...
Guild Wars 2 players have cleared 41M fractals in the last eight years according to infographic
While the crux of the 10 year anniversary for Guild Wars 2 is primarily being marked by a Steam launch and presents for players,...
Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it
The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....
Path of Exile outlines nerfs to Archnemesis defensive modifiers, promises to explain Kalandra balance changes soon
While much of the conversation from the Path of Exile playerbase has been about item drops, another matter has been on the minds of...
GeForce NOW adds Guild Wars 2 and Destiny 2 to its streaming lineup
Feeling the urge to take on some new streaming MMOs via GeForce NOW? Good news: The cloud gaming service has just added 13 titles...
World of Warcraft tests Halls of Infusion dungeon, Wrath Classic welcomes Death Knights next week
I don't know about you, but when I see that the latest World of Warcraft dungeon to be tested is called "Halls of Infusion,"...
Final Fantasy XI gives players another shot at earning the Shadowlord’s weapons
Everyone remembers the Shadowlord in Final Fantasy XI, which is a bit odd when you consider that he was the big bad before the...
Everywhere is a self-described ‘multi-world gaming experience’ from a former producer of GTA Online
What is Everywhere? To hear the game's own description of itself, it sounds kind of metaverse-ish except it also has open world gameplay, while...
Tower of Fantasy shares video previews of the upcoming Vera region and a new Simulacrum character
What do an arid desert, a cyberpunk cityscape, and a katana-wielding badass have in common with one another? They're all part of some new...
Path of Exile promises to improve item drops in an upcoming patch, but players remain skeptical
If you're among those Path of Exile players who were upset by Grinding Gear Games' stealth nerfing of item drops in Lake of Kalandra,...
Final Fantasy XIV kicks off the next PvP series with patch 6.2
All right. We know that you guys are all enjoying Island Sanctuaries in Final Fantasy XIV right now. No one is asking you to...
EG7 Q2 2022: Daybreak’s Jason Epstein is now chairman of the board
Remember a year ago when the Enad Global 7 board ousted CEO and co-founder Robin Flodin and replaced him - temporarily and in an...
Perfect Ten: My memories from the 2004 World of Warcraft launch
Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs...
The Daily Grind: Do you leave MMO global chat on or turn it off?
Ah global chat -- or world chat, as we sometimes call it. Trade chat? Whatever, it's the chat channel that goes out to everyone...