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Gamigo is merging down ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained’s servers, and yes there will be new land rushes
ArcheAge's misery just compounds lately: Gamigo has announced that it's merging many of the gamers servers servers under the "server evolution" catchphrase. Across both...
Enter to win a Maplestory M Xenon swag bag, including a battery pack, from Nexon and MOP!
In honor of the launch of Xenon in MapleStory M this month (and the concomitant avalanche of new events), Nexon is offering a nifty...
Phantasy Star Online 2 has launched on the Epic Games Store today with a new limited-time quest
The state of Phantasy Star Online 2 is very different now from when it launched in North America last year, because you can now launch...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s bungle, Axie Infinity’s $1.5M in-game property
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Stadia: The Google mess just gets thicker, as apparently, developers on Stadia's internal...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 309: You can take my loot over my dead body
Justin and Bree discuss Valheim, Elite Dangerous' slave cult, BlizzConline, Hearthstone, WoW's valor, Neverwinter Nights Arelith, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert, and Shadowbane, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWG Legends, and Farm Together, with mailbag topics on full-loot open world PvP and brute-forcing unpopular gameplay design.
Neverwinter’s Sharandar: The Iron Tooth is live on PC today
After a week's delay and a combat overhaul that set the playerbase ablaze, Perfect World has finally unleashed Neverwinter's next big thing: Sharandar. As...
Amazon has delayed New World for at least the third time, now to August 2021
Amazon has delayed New World yet again, clearing your spring and summer calendars for other MMOs. "We’ve been hard at work on compelling end-game features...
Dauntless’ simplified roadmap details new hunts, feature reworks, and Springtide
Were you a fan of the way Dauntless' old roadmap looked? If you answered "no," then the devs at Phoenix Labs basically agree with...
EVE Online spotlights Reign, the return of Guardian’s Gala, and quality-of-life features
EVE Online has released the first episode of its video news digest series, The Pulse, of 2021, once again bundling together some of the...
Project Gorgon’s improved animation system lets it get down with its bad self
As we look forward to seeing how Project Gorgon shapes up this year as it heads toward its 2022 launch, there's one thing that...
Wisdom of Nym: What Final Fantasy XIV has lined up for patch 5.5
Amidst all the news last week, the live letter for Final Fantasy XIV kind of got shoved off into the corner, didn't it? Partly...
Valheim concurrency soars past 360K as the game’s now sold 2M copies
When we first reported on the early access launch of Valheim, the new Viking-themed co-op survival sandbox, we pointed out that the game was...
Gameforge is sunsetting the western version of SoulWorker as the original dev promises a new global version
Bad news for western SoulWorker players today: Gameforge has announced that it will no longer be running the game in Europe and North America,...
LOTRO Legendarium: How can LOTRO become more alt-friendly?
Lord of the Rings Online has so much to offer players, from an expansive world to thousands of quests to, um, chicken soccer. But...
Skyforge launches a Mechanoid Invasion for Switch players
Welcome to Skyforge, Nintendo Switch fans! You'll notice a whole lot of immortal deities around you, that's totally normal. Bit of a lack in anti-aliasing,...
Century Age of Ashes delays early access, plans second beta following player feedback
Century: Age of Ashes popped up almost outta nowhere last month with its closed beta, boasting a dragon-centric aerial PvP mode. MOP's own Not...
Classic MMO Priston Tale is getting a mobile version in South Korea
Do you remember Priston Tale? It's a Korean MMORPG that originally released to our shores in 2004 and is still apparently running free-to-play to...
Large-scale multiplayer Neverwinter Nights persistent world Arelith is getting a new city tomorrow
If you've been following The Game Archaeologist column all the way back to Massively-That-Was, you maybe will recall a piece from June 2014 about...
Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming out on the Epic Game Store next week
With a global release under its belt already and a revamped version in the works for later this year, Phantasy Star Online 2 is...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 308: FFXIV’s endings and beginnings
Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker, Skyforge, Blizzard and NCosft financials, Stadia, and PSO2, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, ESO, SWG Legends, plus mailbag questions on MMO dungeons and juggling MMOs.
