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The Stream Team: One last look at the Lost Ark closed beta
There's not much time left before the beta test of Lost Ark wraps up, which means that MOP's Chris has a scant bit of...
Albion Online examines Lands Awakened’s guild PvP, opens influencer program
Albion Online's Lands Awakened update is obviously going to bring some big changes to the PvP meta when it launches on November 24th -...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections
Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...
World of Warcraft: Classic is planning to allow free character transfers off low-population servers
The direction of free server transfers can tell you a lot about what's coming next for a game's servers. If WoW Classic were offering players...
Lord of the Rings Online launches its eighth expansion, Fate of Gundabad
Who's ready to get funky with Dwarves underground and Brawlers over the landscape? Lord of the Rings Online players, that's who. Today marks the...
Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ Echovald Wilds biome
One of the best-loved locations in Classic Guild Wars was Echovald Forest, the overgrown, gothic home of the Kurzick faction. Just based on concept art...
The Daily Grind: What do you think of Lost Ark so far?
The buzz on the MMO streets is all about an Amazon Game Studios release -- no, not New World, but rather Lost Ark. The...
The Stream Team: Scouring for Scourge in Path of Exile
Massively OP's MJ hasn't had the chance to check out Path of Exile's new league yet, so today she's going to dive in and...
Blade and Soul breaks down the Demonsbane system arriving with tomorrow’s update
Tomorrow, NCSoft is adding some new content to Blade and Soul, including the Aerodrome dungeon, the centerpiece of the game's Demonsbane system that promises...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.
Riot Games teases Legends of Runeterra’s Path of Champions and new LoL spinoff Hextech Mayhem
Riot Games is continuing its cavalcade of announcements and reveals this week. First, the company's Riot Forge division revealed another League of Legends spinoff,...
Neverwinter comes under siege starting on November 11
So... hey, Neverwinter players, quick round of questions. Who exactly was it that told the Cult of the Dragon that they needed to siege...
Final Fantasy XIV clarifies the timetable for events in the wake of the Endwalker delay
The events taking place in Final Fantasy XIV right now were kind of predicated on the belief that the game's next expansion would be released...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Should Guild Wars 2 delete leveling?
Leveling is one of those things that you just have to have to count as an RPG, right? It’s expected. At this point, the...
Guild Wars 2 adds the ability to hide visual effects for certain legendary trinkets in today’s patch
I don't know about you, but when I get a powerful piece of equipment, nothing cools down my excitement at the new shiny faster...
EverQuest II celebrates its 17th anniversary, hires a new tradeskill designer
Where were you back in November 2004 when EverQuest II first came on the scene? A lot of expectations were placed on this follow-up...
WoW Classic defends Season of Mastery choices, preps name reservations
As the beta for WoW Classic's fresh start "Season of Mastery" servers has come to a close, players looking to go through the classic...
The Daily Grind: Would WoW be better off with a full reboot?
A couple of months ago, Justin and I were joking on the podcast about how what World of Warcraft really needed wasn't WoW Classic...
The Stream Team: 17th birthday celebrating in EverQuest II
Another year, another party! And even another quest! EQII turned 17 years old today, and Massively OP's MJ is on hand to celebrate. The...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen addresses QA, testing, and PTS potential
How many MMORPG studios are willing to put those who work in the customer service and QA fields in front of a camera to...