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MMO Business Roundup: Kakao’s controlling stake in XLGAMES, Steam’s new record, Xbox’s games-as-a-service
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Kakao Games: Kakao has snapped up a controlling stake in XLGAMES, having acquired 53%...
Guild Wars 2 just put an end to cheese mechanics in the Drakkar encounter
It's patch day for Guild Wars 2, and that usually means one of two things: a tiny one-line bug tweak, or a major release....
Choose My Adventure: Nearing a point of Lahn mastery in Black Desert
In the last Choose My Adventure column, I mentioned how the Lahn in Black Desert felt an awful lot like a fighting game character...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online LE anniversary badge, T6 battlecruisers, fleet packs, and more!
This might just be the coolest Star Trek Online giveaway we've ever done, and we've done a lot of 'em! In celebration of the...
Black Desert’s standalone battle royale title Shadow Arena enters closed beta on February 27
Can a game really get a second chance to make a first impression? We may well find out once Shadow Arena, the standalone battle...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG endgame for people who like to PUG?
A few months ago on Reddit, a player popped up with a neat question about MMO endgames. Essentially, Redditor TooEarlyForMe wanted to participate in...
The Stream Team: A look at Path of Exile’s conquered Atlas
It was hard (very, very hard!), but Massively OP's MJ has torn herself away from her Path of Exile Ranger to finally take a...
Once again, Final Fantasy XIV is wildly improving its screenshot feature
At this point Final Fantasy XIV already has an enormously powerful tool for taking screenshots built into the game via the /gpose feature. You...
RuneScape adjusts War’s Retreat and asks players to help King Slime find love
Just because you're a gelatinous mass of awful material doesn't mean you don't deserve love, and it's up to RuneScape players to help that...
World of Warcraft Shadowlands is getting a prequel novel called Shadows Rising
If for some reason you're still really hoping that Blizzard will pull some good storytelling in World of Warcraft, maybe point your eyeballs to...
Anthem abandons seasonal content as BioWare confirms major redesign and reinvention
So, apparently all the stories last week about how Anthem still hadn't taken down its Christmas decorations struck a nerve, and we've got an...
Allods Online adds new story content, overhauls strongholds and crafting in Soul of Darkness expansion
Dang, it's been a really, really long time since we talked about Allods Online here on MOP - almost a year, in fact, when...
Wisdom of Nym: Our last preview of Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.2
For a lot of people, patch 5.1 felt sort of like a breather. Obviously, it had a bunch of new stuff in it, but...
Fight or Kite: Examining the state of Guild Wars 2 PvP ahead of the big balance patch
About two weeks ago, ArenaNet dropped one of the largest - maybe the largest - balance patch previews for Guild Wars 2 to date....
Guild Wars 2 has lost a couple more devs in the last few months
Another developer has exited the Guild Wars 2 franchise: This time it's Hugh Norfolk, whose final title with ArenaNet was Lead Systems Designer. Norfolk...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Riders of Rohan arrives on progression servers this week [Updated]
Update: It's Wednesday.
Saddle up and ride for the horse kingdom: Riders of Rohan is coming to Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers this...
The Daily Grind: Is there a thing you secretly love in an MMO you hate?
Let's give credit where credit is due: Just because we dislike a game doesn't mean we dislike every last thing in it. Most of...
The MOP Up: Outlaws of the Old West wipes its servers
The survival sandbox that brought you Bigfoot (for some reason) is now triggering a region-wide apocalypse. OK, it's just a server wipe for Outlaws...
RIFT and ArcheAge outline their respective Valentine’s Day events
The season of love (or at least mutually beneficial teamwork long enough for everyone to get rewards and then never speak of the pairing...
Jukebox Heroes: Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr soundtrack and music boxes
While I wasn't that impressed with Elder Scrolls Online's launch soundtrack, the scores for both Morrowind and Summerset did much to win me over....
