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Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena got a lot more friendly this past month thanks to an improved ping system and the addition of login rewards. "The...

Originally inspired by the Ultima series, Dransik came out in the early 2000s as an isometric MMO that rode the rails of indie gaming...

Indentured servitude is something that Final Fantasy XIV likes to introduce to its players, such as poor Scott, who discovered that he's in for...

I have long held that among the many (many) things World of Warcraft codified in the big book of MMORPG "rules" is the quest...

With one of this year's biggest releases out this week, we've taken to the mean streets of Blogtown to see what MMO gamers are...

Several times on the podcast we've marveled at how there is this bizarre disconnect between the apparent huge popularity of RuneScape and how little...

Hey, whatever did happen to those Darkfall community spin-offs? It has been a while since we've touched base with these dueling projects, so let's...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of. Please, by all means, go down into...

In September 2020, Ultima Online studio Broadsword announced something new for the 23-year-old MMORPG: New Legacy, which is basically a shard for newbies with...

It's Black Knight Friday in AQ3D, and Artix Entertainments promises it's the darkest one yet! There are new quests, a new cosmetic trove, and...

The basic flow of zones in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is fixed. You start out in Bastion and finish up in Revendreth by following...

Way back in August, I did a first impression of Black Desert for the PlayStation 4. It was a solid game, but I couldn't...

In a lot of ways, the problem with talking about World of Warcraft is the same problem when you try to talk about The...

Today will mark the transition of Mortal Online 2 from alpha to beta and the game is doing it in the biggest possible way:...

The next major patch for Final Fantasy XIV is launching on December 8th, just a little under two weeks from today. Unsurprisingly, that also...

Pull your excited face out of long-term storage, boys and girls, because EverQuest's latest expansion is coming sooner than you'd think. In fact, Daybreak...

I've been covering the MMORPG genre professionally for well over 10 years now, and a whole lot has changed in that timespan, including the...

Season 11 of Albion Online's competitive guild warfare is kicking off on December 5th, which means you'd best be prepared to fight for your right...

Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.

While World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has, by and large, enjoyed a favorable launch week so far, that doesn't mean that the expansion is free...