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Massively Overthinking: How do alts fit into MMORPGs in 2022?
Last weekend, my play group took a second batch of Guild Wars 2 alts to Cantha, and we found ourselves a bit grumbly about...
Kakao’s Project Ares is a new MMORPG called Ares: Rise of Guardians
Kakao has this week announced yet another MMORPG, this one in partnership with studio SecondDive. According to multiple East Asia-centric gaming sites, the game...
ArcheAge addresses compensation miscalculations that zeroed out player credit balances
It flew under the radar, but earlier this week, Kakao addressed a messy situation in ArcheAge we can charitably call a credit compensation caper....
Breaking down Tencent’s extensive holdings across the video game industry
Riot Games, Epic Games, Netmarble, and Kakao. What do these companies have in common? If you said that they're all companies we talk about...
ArcheAge begins events that provide synthesis discounts, double XP and loot
The newest patch to ArcheAge is thin on content (unless you consider new marketplace items to be content), but it does have a couple...
Elyon updates its battle pass and balances classes, announces end of Spanish localization support April 6
Elyon is still online and operating, and is still getting some updates of note. Last week saw new rewards to the 1v1 arena and...
Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago?
It's 2022 and we're about to talk about free-to-play like it's 2012! Back then, the conversation was all about which MMORPG would fall to free-to-play...
ArcheAge kicks off territory claiming and sieges on fresh start servers, reopens a limited marketplace
Today is patch day for ArcheAge, which means there are (obviously) some patch notes to highlight. This week's update is a bit on the...
Elyon completes its server merging and kicks off growth events in latest patch
Players of Elyon have known about the server merging that was coming, and right on schedule, yesterday's patch has condensed NA and EU servers...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best boats as of 2022?
In fewer than two weeks, Guild Wars 2 is getting something we've never had before in the game: boats. In fact, you might even...
ArcheAge previews new region, Auroria changes, and quality-of-life improvements
What's on tap for the first half of 2022 in ArcheAge? Quite a bit according to an update preview shared by Kakao Games, and...
Krafton and Bluehole announce a partnership to create NFT avatars to sell in a future metaverse
The classic set of questions for journalists, investigators, and general critical thinkers to ask is the Five Ws: who, what, when, where, and why....
ArcheAge developer XLGames unveils an NFT-filled game launching in July called ArcheWorld
At a media event for Bora, a blockchain and NFT "ecosystem" (isn't that an ironic use of that word), ArcheAge developer XLGames unveiled plans...
ArcheAge’s fresh start servers get Red Dragon’s Keep and Faction Honor Battlefield on February 10
For those who have mostly been playing ArcheAge on one of the fresh start servers, the next content gate is opening very soon: Thursday,...
ArcheAge banned almost 500 accounts this week for RMT activities
Kakao is clearly hoping to make ArcheAge synonymous with the term "banwave" instead of "exploit," if the latest rounds of banhammer action are any...
ArcheAge cuts back on Serpentis loot, kicks off an event, and removes billions in duped gold
There are gold sinks, and then there are gold black holes that slurp up massive amounts of wealth. ArcheAge's new stewards Kakao opened one...
Elyon details February server merge, patches in Lunar New Year event and season pass
When the server merge happens for Elyon on February 16th, there are oh so many reasons why your character might be deleted. Do you have...
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
ArcheAge returns player items lost during account transfers from Gamigo to Kakao
When ArcheAge accounts were transferred over from Gamigo to Kakao in December, many players unfortunately found that certain items were missing from their characters...
One Shots: Dutch angle knockout
Despite how movies and TV make it look, knocking someone clean out with a punch isn't actually that easy (although attempting it is a...
