fantasy
PSA: Lord of the Rings Online’s current legendary items will be ‘frozen’ next week
This coming Wednesday, October 13th, is a pretty important date for Lord of the Rings Online players, as that's when the legendary item revamp...
The Game Archaeologist: Kingdom of Loathing
It is, in so many ways, the antithesis of a modern MMORPG. It has crude stick figure drawings instead of lush 3-D graphics. It...
Shop Titans crafts a new logo and teases ‘bigger news’ on the horizon
Once in a while, you need to take a break from the stress of constant adventures and danger, perhaps to pursue the life of...
MapleStory will hold its fourth MapleStory Fest event in digital form on November 13
For the fourth year in a row, MapleStory will be holding its own festival to celebrate its players and unveil new announcements for the...
LOTRO explains the Brawler’s mechanics as chicken hockey returns
When it comes to the Brawler, there's only one solution needed for all of life's problems, and that's to strike them as hard as...
WoW Factor: What the Season of Mastery says about WoW Classic
The fracturing has begun. That's what sticks out to me when I look at WoW Classic's Season of Mastery limited-time experiment.
Obviously, this is not entirely...
Massively Overthinking: How long are you willing to wait in an MMO queue?
New World has made headlines since the moment it launched for its excessive queues, but it's hardly the only MMO ever - or even...
Final Fantasy XI looks back on the game’s history in 2006 and continues its industry interviews
When Final Fantasy XI released its third expansion, Treasures of Aht Urhgan, the playerbase rejoiced and had a particular love of the new jobs released with...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster is not gonna stop saying the word metaverse
Even though I very much want to play around in whatever weird huge sandbox thing Raph Koster and Playable Worlds are building, I now...
Vague Patch Notes: Anonymity is not why people are awful online
One of the intentions of the Vague Patch Notes column is to have a place to share things that we're going to need to...
Classic WoW’s Season of Mastery attempts to boost the MMO’s challenge level
The testing for the new seasonal ruleset for WoW Classic is already underway, but what exactly is the Season of Mastery event meant to deliver...
Path of Exile’s Scourge update includes a major balance pass on defense and recovery
Yesterday, we noted that Grinding Gear Games is set on delivering a trio of dev blogs leading into the reveal and release of Path...
Blade & Soul brings its Blade & Ghoul events around for another season of Halloween fun
It's the spookiest time conceivable for Blade & Soul once again as the annual Blade & Ghoul events roll onto the live servers once more....
Gamigo’s charity project planted 200K trees with player donations – now that promo is permanent
If you can somehow remember early 2020 - and I know, it's a painful ask - then you might remember that Gamigo began a...
Aion EU releases patch notes and a livestream for the 8.0 update
The 8.0 update for Aion has been the talk of the game for a while now, both for the EU and NA versions, and...
Black Desert PC adds the next part of Atoraxxion, opens class reboot forums, and kicks off an autumn event
If you're among those who are enjoying the fact that Black Desert has dungeon content and you're a player of the PC version, then...
Here’s how Path of Exile is fixing and balancing flasks in October’s Scourge expansion
Grinding Gear Games has been teasing Path of Exile's 3.16 Scourge expansion with announcements of announcements; we already know the big reveal is set...
NCsoft is finally launching Lineage2M in the west this winter
Lineage2M is finally launching on our shores, and we don't even have long to wait: NCsoft announced this morning that it will launch the...
Perfect Ten: A sampler of crowdfunded MMOs and how they’re doing
I've gone on the record many a time as being deeply suspicious of Kickstarter and crowdfunding when it comes to MMOs. There are reasons...
Guild Wars 2’s PvP community is aflame over win-trading [Update: ANet banned 83 perps]
This past week, the Guild Wars 2 PvP community (don't laugh, there is one, as you know since you read our own Fight or...