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Last Epoch delays Tombs of the Erased to April 17 to avoid competing with Path of Exile 2’s April 4 update
If you are living in the larger ecosystem of what one may term "Diablo-likes," there is currently a very big and very heavy gorilla...
Perfect Ten: Short but mighty playable MMO races
I like short races in MMOs. Not exclusively, but if there is an option to go small or go home, you can bet that...
PlanetSide2 is finally merging its NA servers in April – here’s how to help pick the new names
Remember how PlanetSide 2 successfully merged its EU servers last year, prompting calls - begging, really - for a similar NA server merge? And...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 510: Defiance defies the odds
Justin and Bree discuss the return of Defiance, the sale of Pokemon Go, World of Warcraft's housing, BlizzCon 2026, and Pantheon's PvP, with adventures in WoW and LOTRO, plus a mailbag topic on Dungeon Fighter Online and other deep-cut MMOs.
Old School RuneScape’s Sailing skill open alpha test begins March 20
The Sailing skill has been talked about, teased, and polled for a very, very long time, and now Old School RuneScape is making good...
Lineage 2’s Project Wolf launches April 15 with a new werewolf class
NCsoft's NC America has turned its gaze toward Lineage II this week with the announcement of a major April update. It's called Project Wolf,...
The Daily Grind: If you lost your main MMO characters, would you still play?
As the Lord of the Rings Online transfers were going on over the last few weeks, I had a couple of brief moments when...
The Stream Team: Warframe anniversary alerts and searching for gold
Some days you have a plan, and others, you just wander about where the whims take you. Massively OP's MJ has a plan --...
MechWarrior Online hands out loot bags for St Patrick’s Day, MechWarrior 5 Clans gets new DLC in April
There are a couple of mech-sized news tidbits coming out of MechWarrior Online and they're ready to alpha strike your eyeballs with event goodness....
The RuneScape Archive Project is paying a $500 bounty to folks who can dig up old versions of OSRS
Some of our readers might recall a show known as Cash in the Attic, which basically filmed experts finding rare treasures in people's houses,...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 64-bit server transfers begin to catch up as devs acknowledge server load stress
Two weeks after Lord of the Rings Online kicked off an unprecedented number of server transfers, the studio is only now starting to get...
EverQuest lavishes buffs and gifts upon players for its 26th anniversary
Believe it or not, the 26th anniversary of EverQuest is upon us, celebrating the original launch of the MMORPG on March 16th, 1999. And...
TERA Console adjusts dugeons and dungeon reward drops, growth zones, and items in latest patches
The past couple of weeks in TERA Console have actually been pretty active, at least in terms of adjustments being made to the action...
The MOP Up: Blizzard adds five of its titles to GeForce NOW
Blizzard helped beef up GeForce NOW's library in March with Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble, and the three remastered versions of its Warcraft...
One Shots: You shall not pass unless you really, really want to
Ever since Fellowship of the Ring came out, every wanna-be wizard with a staff thinks that they can camp out on bridges and forbid...
LOTRO Legendarium: The great server transfer nightmare of 2025
Can I be real with you right now? I really don't want to write this column. I wish I didn't have to, not just...
EverQuest doesn’t have a drinking problem – it has Brew Day!
Poor March, you really don't get the best of annual holidays, do you? The best that we can seem to do is slather you...
Massively on the Go: Niantic games under Scopely may not be so bad, actually
In case you missed the news, Pokemon GO's Niantic has finally confirmed that it is indeed offloading its games to Scopely. Oddly enough, it...
Lord of the Rings Online devs talk about Rivendell housing and a new homestead currency
Providing a welcome distraction from the ongoing saga of Lord of the Rings Online's troubled server transfers was a new We Have a Cave...
Design Mockument: How would a Marvel MMORPG actually work?
We've had an awful lot of Marvel-related online projects that never quite get over the finish line into an MMORPG. Sure, we have had...
