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Fight or Kite: Harry Potter Magic Awakened’s guilds, story quests, and pay-to-win gacha mechanics
I’d be lying if I said my game time over the last several months hasn’t been completely upended by Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. It’s...
New World discusses the changes made to Influence in its second iteration
There's just a few hours left to go until New World's Rise of the Angry Earth expansion, so why not spend a chunk of...
Embers Adrift encourages new and lapsed players to login for its first anniversary
Embers Adrift is going to be marking its first anniversary this month, and the devs at Stormhaven Studios would really, really like players to...
The MOP Up: Soulframe releases a soundtrack tidbit
Soulframe fans starved to hear something -- anything -- about Digital Extremes' upcoming fantasy RPG were thrown an audio morsel this week in the...
One Shots: Stones in silence
When they aren't being pooped on, defaced, or used as backdrops for narcissistic selfies, statues have a particular quiet dignity and a magic all...
Mortal Online 2’s Unreal Engine 5 update gets a release window of late October
Back in September of last year, Mortal Online 2 began hyping up its transition to Unreal Engine 5, with the transition heralded as a...
Datamining uncovers potential details about World of Warcraft’s next expansion
As BlizzCon inches ever closer, players of World of Warcraft continue to ponder where the MMORPG's next expansion is headed. Some of that pondering...
MMO Burnout: Non-MMOs that scratch my MMO progression grind itch
There are plenty of reasons people play MMORPGs, whether it's to experience a story (yes, those exist), run in some PvP wars, or grind...
Perfect Ten: The 10 unsung heroes of the MMO user interface
If we ever think of an MMO's user interface, it's either when we're getting settled into a new game or when a title decides...
The Stream Team: Rift razing in Guild Wars 2
It's Guild Wars 2-sday, and that means it's time for some rift-razing fun! Massively OP's MJ is continuing her Secrets of the Obscure adventures,...
SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly vote in favor of a video game voice actors strike
Over the past few months, Hollywood has been ground to a halt as voice actors and screenwriters hit the picket lines to fight against...
The Daily Grind: Are MMORPG expansions pay-to-win or pay-to-progress?
Earlier this week, the New World devs put out a video that addressed, among many other things, the perception in the PvP community that...
Black Desert shares details of its upcoming War of the Roses PvP mode in new video
War is coming to Black Desert, or perhaps more accurately, more war is coming to the MMORPG in the form of the 300v300 War...
New World offers advice for newbies, returnees, PvE, and PvP players heading into Rise of the Angry Earth
Amazon's New World has two chunks of news for players eager to head into Aeternum before the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion in...
Elder Scrolls Online’s update 40 and Endless Archive are on the PTR as ZeniMax eyes Japanese console launch
ZeniMax Online Studios is wasting no time putting MMO gamers to work testing Elder Scrolls Online's Endless Archive content, as update 40 has already...
Lord of the Rings Online gives a sneak peak of Corsairs of Umbar’s landscape
Lord of the Rings Online's fall expansion finally has an official name (and logo): Corsairs of Umbar. Standing Stone Games revealed this in a...
The Stream Team: Searching for Skritt in Guild Wars 2
There is currently a multi-week event happening where finding a certain number of Skritt will grant a new bag slot. How could Massively OP's...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO cash shops usually have things you want to buy?
My recent return to Guild Wars 2 for the Secrets of the Obscure expansion resurrected one of my old gripes: The cash shop almost...
One Shots: Just a minute, Mom, I’m playing with my virtual dollhouse!
If playing with physical dollhouses is your entry-level and full-on interior decorating your advanced mode, then video games offer a middle ground to those...
Elder Scrolls Online’s update 40 and Endless Archive repeatable content launch October 30
As promised, last night ZeniMax Online unveiled Elder Scrolls Online's fourth big update of 2023 and the Necrom-backed plotline, and it's maybe not what...