fantasy
Neverwinter addresses Bards, public queues, and dev roadmap in Q&A livestream
Did you miss out on the Q&A session that Neverwinter held last month? We covered that story previously, but those who are looking for...
Lost Ark promises a two-month roadmap soon, acknowledges ongoing issues
Amazon has its hands full with Lost Ark these days, not only dealing with a myriad of post-launch issues on its plate but trying...
Guild Wars 2 makes End of Dragons’ infamous final fight easier to complete
There is good news for Guild Wars 2 players who have been beating their heads against End of Dragons' infamously difficult final boss fight:...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are you hoping to play later this year?
I keep telling myself, there are never enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do -- including playing all of...
The Stream Team: April Fowls and chickencows in AdventureQuest 3D
It's April Fools' Day, and where can MassivelyOP's MJ have the most fun as a fool? Why, in AQ3D, of course! And it's even...
Myth of Empires opens a server with no building decay and lands on the Humble Bundle store
Angela Game appears to be hard set on operating the survival sandbox Myth of Empires as if there's no ongoing legal issues happening whatsoever,...
Gamigo says RIFT’s ‘great first update’ is still happening, still won’t acknowledge layoffs
Readers will recall that at the top of the week, we reported the unfortunate news that Gamigo had conducted widespread layoffs from multiple MMO...
Elyon plots an ambitious 2022 roadmap with new classes, dungeons, and refreshed PvP
Listen, as we're typing this, Elyon has a grand total of 266 players in-game on Steam. This is incredibly sad, as Elyon - back...
WoW Factor: Dissecting the Shadowlands story now that we’ve seen the end of it
Editor's note - Well, folks, it happened again: Eliot was unavailable to write his column again after falling into a reality-traversing portal. We'd ask...
Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.1, Newfound Adventure, arrives on April 12
So what do you do the day after the world nearly ends? Well, in Final Fantasy XIV, you dust yourself off and get on with...
The Perfect Ten: 10 MMO NPCs as muffins
You’ve all seen those memes or Twitter threads that try to link celebrities or people to food items or other inanimate objects, but I’m...
The Stream Team: Back into the depths of the Vault of Night arc in Dungeons and Dragons Online
Previously, MassivelyOP's MJ and her D&D night crew worked through half of the Vault of Night quest arc in DDO. Tonight, they move on...
Massively Overthinking: What do you expect from MMO Kickstarters?
I know, I know. People don't trust Kickstarters anymore. Nor should they, especially now. I think our genre knows this now. For every Wagadu...
The ‘death by a thousand papercuts version of sexism’ engulfed State of Decay studio Undead Labs, according to new expose
Earlier today, Kotaku ran an expose of Undead Labs, best known for the State of Decay franchise and now housed under no less than...
Neverwinter’s ‘April Fowls’ returns with chicken raids and Poultry vs. Poultry fights
It's April Fools season (?) in the MMO world, and for Neverwinter, that means an outbreak of frisky poultry. Yes, it's "April Fowls," a...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
Lost Ark’s new patch addresses Proving Grounds MMR and other PvP issues
No, it's not a balance patch of any kind, but the latest patch for Lost Ark does have a PvP focus all the same,...
Lord of the Rings Online gets ready for its 15th anniversary and Anor server advancement
Perhaps some of the strangest patches are those that lay the groundwork for content to come. So it is with this week's Lord of...
Vague Patch Notes: Community workarounds don’t excuse broken pieces of MMOs
It's many years in the rear view now because these days it's someone else's show, but there was a time when Choose My Adventure...
World of Warcraft comes up with a solution for motion sickness in two of its dungeons
For players who ever felt a little queasy -- or worse -- when stepping into some of World of Warcraft's more mobile dungeons, relief...