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Guild Wars 2 makes a lot of spear adjustments prior to Janthir Wilds
The spear was once described as the "king of the medieval battlefield," which makes its omission from many fantasy MMOs puzzling. This won't be...
Black Desert launches the Mountain of Eternal Winter expansion on console today
Console Black Desert players are capping off their summer with some winter - Mountain of Eternal Winter, that is. The console version of the...
MMO Business Roundup: Sony, SEGA, and Square-Enix drop a mixed bag of quarterly financials
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news - this time 'round, it's all about quarterly financial reports.
Square-Enix:Â Square saw another broad...
Finnish game studio Social First secures $4.2M in funding for a ‘cross-platform social MMO’
At first blush, the announcement that's the source for this story looks like a corporate word salad bar, but once you cut through all...
EverQuest II GU 126 Immeasurable Menagerie hits open beta August 13
EverQuest II's GU 126 update is hitting the beta test server next week, and while at first I wondered whether it was named after...
APB Reloaded preps New Horizon patch with new F2P content and anti-cheat tech
Little Orbit has major plans for APB Reloaded on deck - and we don't just mean sunsetting the console version. Version 1.31, dubbed New...
World of Tanks invites you to its 14th birthday party with presents and events
Earlier this week, we noted that Wargaming had dropped a new trailer for World of Tanks, but the timing was far from random. In...
Corepunk engages alpha four today with new biomes, trading, and mounts
And they're off! Corepunk's alpha 4 officially kicked off at 4 p.m. EDT today with an amusingly stoic preface from Artificial Core: "On the...
Diablo IV brings wave survival and widespread gameplay tweaks in todays Season of the Infernal Hordes
It's pretty clear that Diablo IV is about killing hordes of demons, but as of today's latest Season of the Infernal Hordes launch, there...
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away cosmetics and more in its 70K-hour community playtime challenge
We wouldn't normally cover an MMORPG promotion with a third party, but in the case of Elder Scrolls Online and Alienware, the promo includes...
Victorian sandbox Nightingale banks on a big summer patch to turn its fortunes around
While admitting "shortcomings" to Nightingale's initial launch, six months into early access Inflexion Games' devs say that they're "proud" of the title and yet...
Riot team shooter Valorant blasts its way onto console (but without crossplay)
Riot Games' team shooter doesn't have any plans to fade away soon. In fact, Valorant is expanding its reach thanks to this week's console...
LOTRO Legendarium: My six-month leveling plan for Lord of the Rings Online’s fresh legendary server
If all goes well, the new legendary servers -- the first in three years -- will roll out this week for Lord of the...
Predecessor, the Paragon spinoff MOBA, confirms a full release from early access August 20
Aw shoot, here we go again. Another spinoff MOBA built from the bones of the shuttered Paragon is about to head from early access...
Global Chat: Reporting from the land of Throne and Liberty
Heartless Gamer put down a whole lot of thoughts about the recent Throne and Liberty global beta, saying that while the MMO has plenty...
Not So Massively: Stormgate was not ready for early access
As the first of StarCraft II's spiritual successors to make it to a public launch, Stormgate will be releasing free to play for all...
Design Mockument: How to make housing work in World of Warcraft
Editor's note: This column was originally published in August 2024, a full three months before we knew WoW is actually getting housing with the...
World of Warcraft offers a free weekend as the Radiant Echoes event gets revised and pre-patch bugs continue
The good news for World of Warcraft fans - or perhaps we should say lapsed fans - is that if you're curious about how...
Star Citizen takes a look at the space stations, asteroid bases, and FFA PvP of alpha 4.0’s Pyro system
Star Citizen's weekly video series is now starting to look past alpha 3.24 and towards alpha 4.0, especially the addition of the game's second...
Diablo IV shares patch notes and discusses gameplay adjustments arriving with Season 5
Diablo IV is practically gushing with information ahead of its upcoming Season 5 launch on August 6th, with Blizzard offering up a developer livestream...
