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The Daily Grind: Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever played an MMO?
A few weeks ago, I logged into WoW Classic and was chatting with my guild when one of our community made a startling confession:...
Neverwinter’s Sharandar trilogy is now complete on console with the launch of the Odious Court
A month after dropping on PC, Neverwinter's Odious Court, the third and final episode's of the Sharandar arc, is finally live on Xbox One...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 329: Sith happens
Justin and Eliot discuss Magic Legends and the Cryptic layoffs, SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith, Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons delay, with adventures in FFXIV and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on FFXIV as the potential WoW killer.
Blizzard retools World of Warcraft’s Mythic Dungeon International, offers $380K prize pool
Scoff all you want at MMORPG esports, but Blizzard has a nice chunk of change on offer for World of Warcaft's Mythic Dungeon International....
Guild Wars 2 offers Rising Flames for free, previews next week’s legendary armory launch
Guild Wars 2 fans are still reeling from the revelation that End of Dragons has been delayed into next year and that Colin Johanson...
Nintendo unveils the Switch OLED model, which is definitely not a ‘Pro’ model
Good news, Nintendo Switch fans; the rumors about a Switch Pro model turn out to have been sort of true! But also bad news,...
Launch impressions: Crowfall won me over, but it’s not for everyone
So Crowfall's beta has finally ended and launch is upon us. As someone who backed the game but has played alphas of many games that never...
Path of Exile’s next expansion arrives July 23 as the devs prepare with a livestream and an engine update
Grinding Gear Games is starting to spin up the hype drives for the next expansion to Path of Exile, which readers will recall was...
Final Fantasy XIV breaks its Steam concurrency record
Odds are pretty good that even if you're a Final Fantasy XIV fan, you don't devote a whole lot of your brainmeat to the...
LOTRO’s Classic server ‘wouldn’t work’ with current tech, SSG says
Standing Stone Games is probably getting sick of being asked all of the time about a Lord of the Rings Online classic server. Despite...
Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall officially launches today
It's been a very long road, but Crowfall is finally launching today. Yes, a crowdfunded MMO with a real launch! MMO readers will recall...
The Daily Grind: How important are invisible zone lines in your MMO?
A while back, Pantheon promoted a player thread about zone lines, in which a Visionary Realms developer is paraphased as saying that the zone...
Final Fantasy XI adds a new high-tier battlefield with its next version update
Bad news for anyone hoping that the next update for Final Fantasy XI would continue the story arc of the ongoing Voracious Resurgence, as...
Wisdom of Nym: What will Final Fantasy XIV add to its tanks?
So we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Endwalker will add new tricks to every job in Final Fantasy XIV. We don't...
Not So Massively: Magic Legends had all the right ideas and all the wrong choices
This is the worst kind of column to write. Not only am I reporting on the closure of a game, but it's a game...
Mortal Online 2 adds new enemies and improved PvE AI behaviors in newest patch
If the preview video from Mortal Online 2 got you excited at the prospect of being smashed by a giant troll, your moment of...
The Daily Grind: Do you plan your MMO play around bonus experience mechanics?
Rested experience mechanics are actually one of my favorite systems in online games. They've taken many forms over the years, from Ultima Online's power...
The MOP Up: PUBG Mobile snaps its fingers and bans millions
This may well be one of the largest banhammer strikes we've ever seen: PUBG Mobile announced that over the course of a week, it...
One Shots: Fantasy splash pad
I'm oddly fascinated with water effects and physics (what little there is) in MMOs, especially when games try to portray large lakes or oceans....
LOTRO producer talks Gundabad, Brawler, and LI revamp in new stream
Lord of the Rings Online's new producer, Oleg "Raninia" Brodskiy, is helping SSG make big strides toward becoming more communicative and transparent ever since...
