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Pirates of the Burning Sea teases ‘legacy’ edition coming soon
Arr, there be some life left in Pirates of the Burning Sea's sails, after all! Shortly before the dev team broke for the holidays,...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v5.0
It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...
Dark Age of Camelot’s Midwinter Festival brings realm bonuses, Christmas cosmetics, and seasonal quests
As of last week, Dark Age of Camelot got deep in to the holiday spirit with the start of its Midwinter Festival, bringing plenty...
The MOP Up: Trove’s polished paragon paradise
Trove is making sure that its players have plenty to do this season thanks to a Polished Paragon system. This patch came out on...
The Daily Grind: Have there been any cross-promotions in your MMO that annoyed you?
We always have a chuckle in the MOP office when World of Warships puts out its latest wacky cross-promotion with real world celebrities or...
Elder Scrolls Online looks ahead to quarterly content cadence in 2022, laments extended datacenter hardware refreshes
ZeniMax Online Studios' Matt Firor penned a letter to The Elder Scrolls Online community last night, checking in on the state of the game,...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2021
One of my favorite traditions every year is to put a spotlight back on some of the wild things MMORPG developers said every year....
From the Depths: Seven tips to improve your World of Warships experience
It’s no secret that World of Warships has had a rough year thanks to dodgy monetization mechanics and Wargaming’s treatment of employees and players....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO hosted the best event in 2021?
You might be sad to learn that we're not giving out a formal award for best MMO event this year, but that's because our...
World of Tanks unveils partnership with Arnold Schwarzenegger for this year’s Holiday Ops event
A lot of World of Tanks partnerships have been with washed-up B-list celebrities who were never actually good in anything (looking at you, Chuck Norris)....
Dark Age of Camelot invites new characters to catch up in Caledonia until December 6
Want an excuse to have a new experience in Dark Age of Camelot? You could get exactly that with the game's Catch Up in Caledonia...
Dark Age of Camelot kicks off its Harvest Celebration and offers to sell you a fox pet
We all know that there aren't a lot of Thanksgiving celebrations in MMOs, but Dark Age of Camelot is still celebrating away with the...
Snag a World of Warships newbie or vet swag key courtesy of Wargaming and MOP
Free-to-play PC MMO World of Warships turned six years old this fall, with its fifth season of play underway just this past month. To...
The MOP Up: Valve’s Steam Deck gets delayed to 2022
Bad news for those among you who were hoping to play some MMOs on Valve's Steam Deck this holiday season: The company announced that...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
World of Warships kicks off its fifth ranked season with new superships and improves visuals with latest patch
Update 0.10.10 of World of Warships has made things bigger and prettier thanks to the addition of new graphical improvements and the launch of...
The Daily Grind: Would WoW be better off with a full reboot?
A couple of months ago, Justin and I were joking on the podcast about how what World of Warcraft really needed wasn't WoW Classic...
World of Warships adds new ships and new campaign to console, more WH40K ships to console and PC
Sure, World of Warships and the Warhammer 40K universe have collaborated before, but those were Imperium or Chaos battleships. What the game was truly...
The MOP Up: World War II hands over toolsets to players
World War II Online is renewing a focus to be "player-driven" by giving all high-level premium players a High Command toolset to fiddle around...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMORPGs you’ve already forgotten about
Not every MMORPG can remain in the spotlight forever. Time has a nasty habit of making us forget titles that used to rile up...
