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Massively OP Podcast Episode 399: Dragonflight takes to the skies
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Dragonflight's launch; New World's 2023 roadmap; the sunset of Elyon and Forsaken World; new content for EverQuest II, Wizard101, Embers Adrift, Guild Wars 2, and Elite Dangerous; plus adventures in LOTRO, MOP's end-of-the-year awards, and a mailbag topic on auto-scaling in MMOs.
Snag an ArcheAge Unchained Dark Shaman Raiment Outfit ahead of December 15’s fresh start servers
As we noted in our companion post, ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained are preparing another fresh start server for players hungry to try the game...
Grab an ArcheAge Dark Shaman Raiment Outfit to celebrate the new fresh start servers launching December 15
ArcheAge is preparing another fresh start server for players hungry to try the game out without baggage. The server's set to go live in...
Elyon prepares to sunset in Korea following its western shutdown
It's an ignominious end to a once-promising MMORPG. Elyon (previously Ascent: Infinite Realm) has less than a week left before Kakao closes it in...
End-of-Year Eleven: The Biggest MMO Surprises of 2022
All right, 2022, you are officially no longer allowed to surprise us any more because we're doing the end-of-year thing now and that means...
ArcheAge adds December login rewards and tweaks chests with its latest patch
Are you familiar with the Duun Crate in ArcheAge? If you are, then your world is about to get rocked by the MMORPG's newest...
Sci-fi survival shooter Dysterra launches into early access, has to rollback almost immediately due to cheaters
Run, gun, survive, and have fun. Ideally, anyway. That's the hope of Kakao Games' newly released sci-fi survival multiplayer shooter Dysterra, which made its...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 397: What we have here is a failure to negotiate
Justin and Bree discussion WoW China's sunset, the Blizzard/Netease debacle, LOTRO's mini-expansion, EverQuest II, Frozen Flame, and ArcheAge 2, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, New World, SWG Legends, and Marvel Snap, plus a mailbag topic on boss taunting in MMOs.
The MOP Up: Astrokings brings back Stargate SG-1 for a limited time
While it's not Stargate Worlds, Stargate SG-1 is back for its third round as a collaboration event in the space mobile MMORTS Astrokings: "Command...
ArcheAge improves war drum buffs and raises farmhand levels in latest patch
Drummers and drum enjoyers of ArcheAge, listen up: There's a new patch to the MMORPG and it means something for those who rely on...
MMO Cartographer: Elyon, dead game walking
It would be reasonable to wonder why I am bothering to write about my experiences in Elyon, a game that Kakao has long since...
ArcheAge 2 confirms PC and console versions, action combat, and non-linear progression
In case the earlier gameplay video from ArcheAge 2 wasn't already a clue, the developing MMORPG will have a pretty wide open space and...
MMO veteran Scott Hartsman discusses why overseas game publishing is so messy
All right, so Blizzard and Netease are no longer working together for publishing the former studio's games in China. That's significant, but it should...
ArcheAge 2 teaser introduces you to a vibrant world that needs smashing
Your peepers deserve a treat today, so slap them on the brand-new teaser video that just dropped for ArcheAge 2. XLGAMES' sequel to the...
ArcheAge kicks off its Gweonid Lantern Festival for the month of November
According to Wikipedia, most lantern festivals in East Asia typically signify the first full moon of the lunar year, but they can also be...
Kakao wants to know if you want even more ArcheAge fresh start servers
The fresh start servers in ArcheAge Unchained have, by all accounts, gone over pretty well with players, which has gotten Kakao Games thinking about...
Kakao Q3 2022: Revenue down, pipeline packed with ArcheAge War, Ares, Odin Valhalla Rising, Dysterra
Kakao Games released Q3 financials this morning, and it's packed with good and bad news. Let's do the bad first: Revenue is down by...
Kakao Games’ sci-fi MMO Ares Rise of Guardians releases flashy class and gameplay preview trailers
Does anyone remember Ares: Rise of Guardians? This sci-fi MMO from publisher Kakao Games and developer SecondDive was first mentioned in investor reports from...
ArcheAge’s latest patches add a lucky draw machine, a ghost, and a lineup of bug fixes
It's another week in both ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained, but there isn't a whole lot of big news coming out of either MMO's patch...
Kakao’s sci-fi survival FPS Dysterra will enter early access on November 23
Over the better part of the past year, we've been keeping tabs on Dysterra, a sci-fi post-apocalyptic survival FPS published by Kakao Games and...
