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Final Fantasy XIV launches new 5.3 microsite, hits 1.2M active players (with caveats)
Final Fantasy XIV has today launched a new microsite for the 5.3 patch, arriving August 11, 2020. The site confirms the new content coming...
Elder Scrolls Online will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X – with backward compatibility
Here's some good news for fans of Elder Scrolls Online with their eyes on the next-gen of consoles: ESO is pushing into the future...
LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of Rohan housing
To my knowledge, this past week's Update 27.2 for Lord of the Rings Online may well be the biggest housing patch that's hit the...
Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout’s launch day initially trips and falls, gets back up to big numbers
This is pretty much a "water is wet" sort of story, especially for those of us who have seen messy MMO and online game...
Trove has a celestial summer with the launch of the Lunar Plunge event
It's about time to reach for the stars -- quite literally -- in Trove as the game kicks off the Lunar Plunge event where...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2020: Year-over-year revenues are up for the first time in six quarters
We're back with another dip into Activision-Blizzard's financials, this one Q2 2020, the first report since shareholders lambasted the company for excessive executive pay...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 282: Gate crashers
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Dragon's Prophet, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Phantasy Star Online 2, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on memorable MMO stories and the greediest games.
Final Fantasy XIV will be down for 24 hours for patch 5.3 maintenance
Get anything you need to have done in Final Fantasy XIV done before August 10th. Anything you want done before the patch, at least,...
Trove interview: Gamigo on console’s future, Bomber Royale, and the next class for a revamp
With Trove's fifth birthday and its Delves expansion now behind it, we're curious about what's next for the game. Gamigo's Cornelia and Coby -...
Phantasy Star Online Director on working on the original: ‘The pressure was intense’
We wouldn't have Phantasy Star Online 2 without the original Phantasy Star Online - not just because numbers work like that, but because a...
Closed alpha testing results see survival sandbox Craftopia delay its early access launch
MOP's Bree and I -- and probably some other staffers here -- are pretty eager to see what Craftopia is all about. For those...
Path of Exile lays out a rough timeline for its next major expansion
Now that Path of Exile has effectively completed work on the Harvest League (sort of), the time has come for the devs at Grinding...
TennoCon 2020: Warframe’s infested open world Heart of Deimos launches August 25th on all platforms
To the moon, Tenno! A Mars moon, to be exact. If that was your guess for Warframe's Heart of Deimos expansion, you got it....
Dual Universe’s August beta will also see the end of NDA
Dual Universe is sort of repeating itself in its latest newsletter, but then tooting the horn of an upcoming beta launch is to be...
Rumor: Halo Infinite leak suggests a free-to-play multiplayer experience
So, who had Halo goes free-to-play on the summer 2020 bingo card? OK, not really, but a leak circulating on the internet today suggests...
Lost Ark KR launches its second season, teases a new class and future updates
While we're still kind of watching and waiting for the game to arrive to our shores, Korean players of Lost Ark are already deep...
ArcheAge announces The Ipnysh Sanctuary, coming August 13 [Updated]
ArcheAge is getting another content update in the form of Garden of the Gods: The Ipnysh Sanctuary next month on August 13th. Gamigo's press...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs I was very wrong about
Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually...
This week’s Black Desert update is Cursed, literally, as the Netflix collab begins
Cursed by Netflix transmedia synergy, that is! Yes, as promised, the Netflix fantasy series Cursed has a big crossover with the Black Desert franchise...
DC Universe Online launches the Wonderverse episode on July 30
Remember when DC Comics completely destroyed its multiverse only to bring it back a couple of years later, tops? We sometimes do. But it...