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The Stream Team: Comparing MMO Yule Logs for Christmas
Did you expect an action-packed adventure on Christmas Day? Sorry, Massively OP's MJ plans to just sit by a blazing fire and relax with...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
The Stream Team: Christmas Eve capers in Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday
Last-minute shopping? No thank you! Massively OP's MJ will get all her holiday PvP needs met in Guild Wars 2's Snowball Mayhem. She'll also...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
Dune Awakening shares closed beta stats and answers questions about PvP death and Landsraad benefits
The final Dune: Awakening newsletter for this year is online, and as one might expect, it's mostly a retrospective of the year that was...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?
The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Ghost promises it’s an MMO and not a lobby title, discusses wider gameplay and design plans
With the Ghost MMO project wrapping up its development in 2024, it's time once again for the devs at Fantastic Pixel Castle to come...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
The Daily Grind: Do you stick to a uniform naming convention in MMOs?
Names are always a contentious and personal topic for MMORPGs, as they are our "face" by which others know us. And there are really...
The Stream Team: The cat’s heist in Guild Wars 2
While on a quest for a frog in a top hat in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ was introduced to a fairly famous...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025
We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...
Elder Scrolls Online compensates players for server outages and toasts an in-game play
It was a frustrating couple of days for the players and the devs of Elder Scrolls Online, as the MMORPG's servers were knocked out...
Mortal Online 2 drops item-filled meteors from the sky for players to fight for in its latest update
Mortal Online 2 will be one of the few MMORPGs where we can confirm that epic items do literally fall from the sky. The...
Albion Online plans updates to economy, Outlands, and release timing in 2025
It's been a packed year for the PvP sandbox Albion Online, and what better way to look back at the year that was than...
Design Mockument: What should Guild Wars 3 look like?
We know that Guild Wars 3 is happening... probably. I mean, we have no specific details about Guild Wars 3, other than the fact...
Guild Wars 2 shows off all of the things players have created with Homesteads
Some people with limited imaginations do not personally wish to use housing in MMORPGs and thus do not see the value of it. "So...
The Stream Team: Adopting Guild Wars 2’s Mr. Ribbington
Disappointingly, after making Mr. Quiggles in Guild Wars 2 last week, Massively OP's MJ did not get one to carry around with her (although...
Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday has returned through January 2 with plushie weapons
Guild Wars 2 friends, it's time to head to Divinity's Reach in your festive snow gear because Wintersday has returned to Tyria this afternoon....
