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Throne and Liberty addresses pain points of overwhelming dailies and janky combat
It's not just the end of the year for Throne and Liberty; it's also the end of the MMO's launch year here in the...
PSA: Diablo IV is free to play through the end of the year
In a move that by no means is counter-programming to Path of Exile 2's recent early access launch, Blizzard announced that it is making...
Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to the ongoing alpha 3.24.3
CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
New World’s PvP seasonal worlds and season 7 launch January 21
At the end of November, Amazon finally released a roadmap for New World, revealing its plan to launch the PvP-themed season 7 early in...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
Once Human 2025 roadmap promises Visional Wheel system, new scenarios, and mobile launch
NetEase-owned Starry Studio looks to have some big plans for the survival MMO Once Human in 2025. That's the message being offered from the...
Ultima Online has released its first patch for New Legacy
There's a lot going on for Ultima Online players right now, regardless of which version of the game you play! We say that because...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s Secret Level episode and Amazon’s odd priorities
Last week, Amazon's Prime Video launched its Secret Level anthology series of short animated episodes based on a variety of games. Included in this...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025
We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...
Elite Dangerous celebrates devs and players in its 10th anniversary retrospective video
This week in 2014, Elite: Dangerous officially released on PC, and despite its ups and downs, the game is closing out 2024 in an...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s early access launch weekend saw over 2300 concurrent Steam players
After years of development, tragedy, course changes, and a few moments of controversy, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is now out in the wild...
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at LOTRO’s run in 2024
How do we sum up the entire year of Lord of the Rings Online? That's always a hard task, but if I had to...
The Daily Grind: Do certain seasons of the year bring you back to MMOs?
As the years start to flicker by faster, I've observed that certain seasons tend to bring out different gaming desires and habits in my...
Warframe 1999 is officially live with new romance and story content
The previews for Warframe's newest update have focused on the fact that the update sees players team up with six individuals fighting against a...
The Stream Team: Taking a peek inside of the early access release of Pantheon Rise of the Fallen
Today is the day when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen takes its next big step forward toward release with its early access launch, and...
