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Star Trek Online brings Awakening to console and launches a breast cancer charity event
Let the games of catch-up begin! Star Trek Online players on PS4 and Xbox One can now get the same stuff that PC players...
LOTRO previews Minas Morgul expansion, starts up Harvestmath
Ready to get into the Halloween spirit in Middle-earth? Considering the holiday, it's a very appropriate month for Minas Morgul -- starring the City...
Fortnite returns to service with Season 11 as Save the World players grumble
This past weekend, Epic Games ended Fortnite's season 10 not with a big bang but with a big crunch when it welcomed players to...
World of Warcraft: Classic is getting Dire Maul today ahead of the rest of Phase 2
Sorry, guy; you might know Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog, but you never actually said you were casting it, so now there's ogres. Among other things, anyhow. Yes, World...
Overwatch brings back Halloween today but cancels the Nintendo Switch launch event
For those who have not joined in the Blizzard boycott and are still playing Overwatch, the next few hours are going to be mighty...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Is it time for Guild Wars 3?
Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, was leaving...
Buy-to-play ArcheAge Unchained is officially live today with the Shadows Revealed update
Back in August, Gamigo stunned the MMORPG genre by announcing a do-over for 2014 Korean MMORPG ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained: It's a buy-to-play, sub-free...
Blizzard solves its ‘one company, two policies’ problem by hiding pro players and canceling an event
While many gamers are now looking ahead to BlizzCon for its reveals after the Hearthstone Hong Kong esports fiasco, I'm far more curious about...
Skyforge announces its move to the My.Games store
This past August, we reported on the global launch of the My.Games store, a digital storefront that first started life in Russia as Mail.Games.ru...
ArcheAge Unchained’s test server goes dark in prep for launch
Certain quarters of the MMO community are positively jittering with barely repressed excitement over the imminent launch of ArcheAge's buy-to-play, non-pay-to-win server this week.
With...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s thorny patrol
Cryptic is really hot to trot with Star Trek Online's new patrol system, and this past week the studio highlighted the third new one:...
The Game Archaeologist: Funcom’s long-abandoned Midgard MMO
There used to be a time that Funcom was deeply into the MMORPG business, bringing us titles such as Anarchy Online, Age of Conan,...
Destiny 2 kicks off Nightmare Hunts, tweaks 3v3 matchmaking, and counts PC as its biggest platform
Destiny 2 has had a pretty big few days on account of its Shadowkeep launch, so naturally things will keep on changing and evolving...
Astellia Online is opening up a fresh EU server today
Wondering how Astellia Online's doing population-wise since its launch? Apparently well enough, as Barunson is prepping to open another server.
"Since the official launch of...
Steam’s Remote Play Together will let local multiplayer games go global
If you've ever had a game that worked only with local multiplayer and you had to either do some fast-hacking or just give up...
Funcom roundup: Secret World Legends’ Samhain, Moons of Madness’ launch, and Tencent
Funcom is up to some stuff this week! For starters, Secret World Legends is patching in Samhain today. One of the better Halloween events...
ArcheAge Unchained’s test server throws its doors open to you – yes, you
Are you ready for next week's launch of ArcheAge's new buy-to-play server, or are you still on the fence about the whole deal? What...
Former Bungie CEO publicly unveils his new multi-studio games company
Harold Ryan, the man who led Bungie for 15 years, has re-entered the games industry with a new company called ProbablyMonsters, which works a...
PC preorders for Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online have now begun
We interrupt this week's raging dumpster fire to point you to last fall's dumpster fire! Yes, Rockstar Games has officially opened preorders for the...
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...