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The Daily Grind: When do MMOs get too silly for your comfort?
Let us talk about TERA today. I have never been able to wrap my head around the tone of this game. While it appears...
Neverwinter brings the Lost City of Omu to consoles on April 24
Nothing like a two-month wait for new content while your friends on a different platform get to experience it all! Such is the continued...
WoW Factor: Allied races and a dearth of class choices
Last week, we got confirmation that Kul Tiran Humans and Mag'har Orcs are coming to the Allied Race roster for World of Warcraft: Battle...
Fractured’s alignment and karma systems put a spin on MMO PvP
Is it even possible to put the diametrically opposed playstyles of PvE and PvP into the same MMO game world and make it work? Well,...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth gets its Dark Iron Dwarf mounts, but no First Aid
Another build has arrived for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, and it brought along stuff for Dark Iron Dwarves. For one thing, we've...
The Daily Grind: Is player trading a make-or-break MMO feature for you?
MOP reader Xijit recently pointed us to a thread on Bless Online's Steam page where players are noting that person-to-person trading is not currently...
Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise
MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...
Black Desert is introducing the Musa to its Southeast Asia servers
If you've been playing Black Desert in America for a while, you are not surprised to see the Musa. Heck, the Musa is downright...
TERA preps Godsfall update for mid-April
"You will bear witness as gods die."
These chilling words precede TERA's next major content update, named Godsfall. En Masse Entertainment announced today that it...
Path of Exile makes rare beasts easier to get in the Bestiary League
Is it absolutely imperative in Path of Exile's Bestiary League that you catch them all? The most recent patch to the game makes it...
Guild Wars 2’s Current Activities Team shoves kitties in your face
If you were hired to work at ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2, what team would you want to join? The C.A.T. people make a...
Chronicles of Elyria demos its character creator in front of a live studio audience
Who's ready to look super-duper freaky? Chronicles of Elyria, that's who!
The in-development indie MMO demonstrated the first iteration of its character creation system in...
Crowfall Q&A turns its focus to NPC creation
Don't be fooled by the PvP nature of Crowfall -- the game world (or worlds, plural) will feature many NPCs to add flavor and...
Black Desert’s next patch will alter weight penalties, fort construction, and monster drops
Pearl Abyss Executive Producer Jae-Hee Kim has a new Black Desert letter out for western players - apparently he's aiming to make the letters...
First impressions of the newly launched ARK Park
By the time you read this dear reader, I'll already be dead... dead tired, that is, from running around the Game Developer's Conference talking...
MMO studios form Justice League-style alliance to combat toxicity
After years of trying to crack the serious issue of negative behavior and toxicity among their individual communities, 30 game studios and industry leaders are...
Lord of the Rings Online releases secret goat quest
Leave it to the sly folks at Standing Stone Games to slip a little spring surprise into Lord of the Rings Online.
The studio behind...
RIFT Prime jacks up its quest experience, works on lag
Players on RIFT's relatively new Prime progression server will see one major complaint addressed today: Trion Worlds is tripling the experience rewarded from quests...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s devs take you spelunking in the pre-alpha
Here's a neat two-for-one deal for fans of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. The developers recently hosted a livestream in which they showed pre-alpha...
EverQuest II teases a change to its monthly moonlight enchantments event
Fey mushroom rings are sprouting all over EverQuest II, marking the return of the monthly Moonlight Enchantments event. This one-day-only event comes and goes...