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Stars Reach unveils the earliest stages of its player housing homesteading system
Development on Playable Worlds' Star Wars Galaxies-esque MMO sandbox Stars Reach is continuing at an apparently speedy pace: The latest dev blog heralds the...
Massively Overthinking: Breaking the load-bearing mechanics in MMORPGs
The parable of Chesterton's Fence has been making the rounds on social media this week in a political context, but I want to talk...
Star Citizen confirms a full wipe is coming with alpha 4.0 as it readies for tomorrow’s IAE free-fly event
It's been a little while since players of Star Citizen's alpha have seen a full reset to their earnings, items, and progress. That's going...
Perfect Ten: Utterly silly MMO transmedia synergy over the years
Remember back when Trion Worlds tried to coin -- or cement -- the term "transmedia synergy" for the relationship between Defiance the game and Defiance the...
EVE Vanguard broadens its test pool starting Thanksgiving weekend
If you've been watching from the sidelines throughout CCP Games' testing of EVE Vanguard, then next weekend might be your moment, as the studio...
MMO Business Roundup: Embracer Q2 2024, Steam toxicity, and GOG’s game preservation program
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer
Embracer - the failson megacorp we keep an eye on because...
Stars Reach says it ‘heard you loud and clear on graphics improvements’
Last week's Stars Reach trailer captured a lot of attention - so much that studio Playable Worlds decided to focus this week's dev blog...
Star Citizen brings more new ships in latest PTU build and discusses alpha 4.0 server meshing progress
Are you ready to try out some of the latest internet spaceships in Star Citizen regardless of whether they're fully ready to go to...
Star Citizen launches a new multi-stage Save Stanton event to pad the time until alpha 4.0
There's going to be some time between now and when alpha 4.0 arrives to Star Citizen. So what are players supposed to do in...
Pearl Abyss Q3 2024: Black Desert declines, EVE Online flattens, Crimson Desert dithers
Pearl Abyss - minus Pearl Abyss America head Jeonghee Jin, who left for NCsoft America this past summer - released its Q3 2024 financials...
Star Trek Online launches the Dimensional Typhoon event for console and The Feast event for PC
It's event week in both PC and console editions of Star Trek Online apparently, as the latest patch for the MMORPG has added a...
EG7 Q3 2024: EverQuest, LOTRO, and Palia gave Daybreak its best quarter all year
The quarterly financials avalanche continues this week with Enad Global 7, better known to MMORPG fans as the company that bought Daybreak and then...
EVE Online’s Revenant expansion has officially launched – its 50th major release since 2003
EVE Online is getting a big jolt of content and activity today thanks to the release of the Revenant expansion, which - if Wikipedia's...
EVE Online posts the patch notes for tomorrow’s Revenant expansion
It's almost time for even more tools for corps to come to EVE Online, and that means that players are getting a deep-dive look...
Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs
So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...
Stars Reach’s new trailer shows significant visual improvement – and a partial list of professions
Late last night, Playable Worlds dropped a new trailer for Raph Koster's incoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, along with an update for its NDA.
As...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends is working on two theme parks – including one from an Ewok movie
Earlier this week, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends dropped a developer diary for October with several teasers for the content the player...
NetEase drops a roadmap for EVE Echoes promising more content – but with few timelines
"Will there be no more content for New Eden in the future?" is probably not the best way to announce your roadmap, but that's...
Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week
It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...
Star Citizen marks progress on alpha 4.0’s AI, server meshing, and backend tech in October report
This week is when Star Citizen looks back at the work of last October and condenses it into a developer progress report. Regular followers...
