interviews
Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’
A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...
Path of Exile 2 previews changes to endgame maps, bosses, and leagues as GGG admits to data breach
One would expect that an early access MMOARPG like Path of Exile 2 would be getting some updates, which means that yesterday's video preview...
PlayerUnknown has aspirations of creating a metaverse over the course of three interlocked game releases
Yep, that word is being used by a big name developer again. But then that big name developer is Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the guy...
Profane details needy artifact weapons, territory control, classes, and monetization in video interview
There hasn't been a great deal of major noise coming out of the developing gankbox Profane, but that changed earlier this month when the...
Former WildStar dev Tim Cain claims the MMO’s lengthy development hurt its launch
Most gamers likely associate the name of Tim Cain with the creation of Fallout, but he also worked as the programming director and then...
LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2025 roadmap and new server panic
There's nothing like being far away from home on a late-December vacation only to get the notice that, hey, Lord of the Rings Online...
Final Fantasy XIV dev discusses over-streamlined battle content as the Heavensturn New Year’s event returns December 31
If you follow the wider discourse of the Final Fantasy XIV community, you probably have run into some people complaining that battle content in...
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...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...
World of Warcraft has added a whopping 38,000 quests in 20 years
Here's a fun fact: Originally, Blizzard intended to create only around 100 Horde, 100 Alliance, and 100 neutral quests for World of Warcraft, as...
Albion Online continues patching up Horizons with armor, weapon, and potion buffs
The application of patches to the Horizons update continues for Albion Online, and this time around it's everyone's favorite kind of patch: the item...
Classic EverQuest’s 31st expansion, The Outer Brood, is live – and so is a brand-new EverQuest book
As promised, EverQuest's 31st expansion officially launched last night, unleashing The Outer Brood on classic EQ players in its 25th year of existence. The...
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
Daybreak confirms work on EverQuest 3 is happening, though it might not be called EverQuest 3
It would be easy to presume that the future of EverQuest is largely about putting forth new expansions for the existing two titles instead...
The Bazaar is a mash-up of roguelite, hero builder, and digital card game currently in paid closed beta
What happens when some pro Hearthstone players decide to make their own digital card game? You apparently get something like The Bazaar, the self-styled...
Elder Scrolls Online’s former creative director talks about making an MMO under WoW’s influence
It's an oft-repeated point but one that still holds water: World of Warcraft has made an indelible mark on MMORPGs, for good or for...
World of Warcraft admits that it’s the ‘ship of Theseus of video games’
To mark World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary, Blizzard is granting interviews all over the place (although I do wish they'd stay out of my...
The MOP Up: Stardew Valley’s secret mobile multiplayer mode
Stardew Valley developer Concerned Ape confirmed that the latest update added a "secret, experimental mobile multiplayer feature" for Android and iOS with the caveats...
Interview: Drakantos discusses multiplayer open world content, monetization, testing, and more
Drakantos is one of those upcoming MMORPGs that looks so familiar while still being distinct. Its got undeniably gorgeous pixel art, a nostalgic retro...
Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif talks Alpha 2 features, the MMO’s design, and ‘the bite of failure’ in PvX
With just over a week before Ashes of Creation kicks off its Alpha 2 playtest, creative director Steven Sharif has held an interview with...
