fantasy
Old School RuneScape releases its Giants’ Foundry smithing minigame
It's now time for the smithies of Old School RuneScape to forge huge weapons in the interest of helping out some giants and improving...
Wurm Online fills its world with treasure maps and applies a variety of fixes and adjustments
The world of Wurm Online is now full of treasure, or at the very least maps that lead to treasure. The newest patch to...
Final Fantasy XIV’s band The Primals shows off its concert (and you can still watch it)
At this point it is pretty redundant for anyone to point out that Final Fantasy XIV has some awesome music throughout, and the Primals...
WoW Factor: The shrinking landmass of World of Warcraft’s ‘Azeroth’
Last week in this column, I told y'all a bit of a bluff.
Well, all right, that's not true. Last week's column was about what...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs make more effort to corral likeminded gamers?
I've mentioned before that my husband has been playing a lot of Destiny 2 lately (fillin' the ol' Overwatch void), and it's led to...
The Stream Team: Underwater combat with Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Drow
Massively OP's MJ has always been sad that she can't shoot fireballs underwater in DDO. She still can't (boo!), but thanks to a special...
Massively Overthinking: ‘Every MMO inconvenience is someone else’s game’
A while back, someone in our comments (I can't find it again, so I can't remember who!) dug up a quote from Raph Koster...
Hi-Rez unveils physics brawler Divine Knockout and SMITE-RuneScape collab
Hi-Rez Studios was a part of the OTK Games Expo, a digital gaming celebration organized by streamers under the OTK Network banner, and it...
Blade & Soul’s Cursed Legacy update goes live
Ready for a new legendary dungeon, new accessories, and some returning events in Blade & Soul? Then you're ready for the Cursed Legacy update,...
Diablo Immortal is no longer whaling as hard as we thought, but it’s still pretty bad
Earlier this week, the internet was abuzz over a Reddit thread and subsequent viral videos that pointed out it could cost players over $100,000...
Perfect Ten: The stupid reasons I have had for sacrificing sleep for MMOs
One of the most useful pieces of advice that I've gotten regarding making decisions for the future is also the simplest: Imagine yourself taking...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s internal alpha is now listed in the Blizzard catalogue
If you're playing World of Warcraft at the moment you are probably chiefly waiting for that sweet, sweet Dragonflight honey to arrive. (It is...
ArcheAge announces Great Prairie of the West update for June 23
Kakao dropped a big preview for ArcheAge today, homing in on the game's impending Great Prairie of the West update that will constitute its...
RuneScape player creates an LED heart light to monitor his character’s health
No matter how much you love your MMORPG, there are always folks who love theirs even more. One Old School RuneScape player was so...
Final Fantasy XI’s Naoki Yoshida talks about the importance of developer passion and communication
Any veteran player of Final Fantasy XI is probably used to the idea of seeing the game's developers as your enemies in playing the...
Saudi Arabia buys a $1B chunk of Gearbox’s Embracer Group to extend games reach to the MENA region
Last December we reported on the news of Gearbox Entertainment subsidiary Embracer Group buying up PWE and Cryptic to the tune of $125M in...
Black Desert kicks off the preseason for the brand-new Arena of Solare
Two teams enter, one team leaves, and everyone does their best to make sure it's not the other team. It's the Arena of Solare,...
‘Power demands sacrifice’: Conan Exiles is teasing a big reveal
If you've been keeping an eye on the Conan Exiles Twitter account lately, you know that Funcom, which barely even acknowledged Age of Conan's...
Design Mockument: Mocking up Final Fantasy XI-2
"Wait just one cotton-picking minute," you say. "Square-Enix is not hurting for another MMO after Final Fantasy XI. It has one. It's called Final Fantasy...
Crowfall’s Gordon Walton joins Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMO and platform
Raph Koster's Playable Worlds MMORPG has picked up two new executives today: Gordon Walton and Omar Abdelwahed.
Walton will be immediately recognizable to modern MMO...
