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NCsoft Q2 2024: NCsoft says it’s not shifting focus away from MMORPGs
In the chaos of August financial releases and Gamescom, we overlooked NCsoft's Q2 2024 financial release, so we're tackling it now. Unfortunately, it's not...
Warcraft Rumble brings a new unit and the Scholomance dungeon with this week’s Season 8 launch
Are you ready for a Scholomantic good time? Who cares if that's not a real word? It's the best one we can think of...
Elder Scrolls Online teases PvP-centric update 44 in roadmap at Gamescom
Elder Scrolls Online is having a big week: Not only did it just launch update 43 with its sweet home tours feature, but now...
Skull & Bones arrives on Steam today as Season 3 Into the Dragon’s Wake goes live
Ubisoft is full-speed ahead with Skull and Bones' third season, which is officially live as of this afternoon. Dubbed Into the Dragon's Wake, the...
SkyVerse is a new Bohemia-pubbed Minecraft-esque multiplayer survival sandbox
Of everything that's been newly announced during Gamescom so far, Bohemia Interactive's SkyVerse caught my attention quickest as a the type of cute voxelbox...
Marvel Rivals reveals Cap and Winter Soldier, Wakanda map, and December launch date
NetEase really did bring its A-game to Gamescom this year with a ton of new games on deck - including its new team shooter...
Soulframe releases a flashy gameplay teaser trailer from its preludes build at Gamescom
Soulframe is currently in its "preludes" phase - the five-dollar term Digital Extremes uses to refer to a test build - and it looks...
New World restarts its 34-episode Discovering Aeternum video series, running through December
If you've been buried in Gamescom news as we have been, you may also have missed that Amazon is rolling out a new video...
NetEase’s adorable cozy game Floatopia invites you to ‘live your best life in the sky’
One of the bright lights of Gamescom's Opening Night Live was the reveal of a new NetEase multiplayer title called Floatopia that is clearly...
Nexon’s ARC Raiders, no longer F2P, gears up for fall test and 2025 launch
At Gamescom's Opening Night Live last night, Nexon's Embark Studios did more than drop a trailer for ARC Raiders: It also set an ambitious...
Tarisland reveals its icy first season, Blight Dragon Elegy, coming in October
As promised, Tencent has dropped a roadmap for Tarisland at Gamescom today, finally letting players know what to expect over the next couple of...
Perfect Ten: The best MMOs from the years before we started counting
You know what bothers me? Our annual awards recap. We always list all of the games that we've given awards to in the past,...
The Stream Team: Entering Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds
What? Massively OP's MJ gets to explore a new land in Guild Wars 2 on launch day? Is the MMOverse coming to an end?!...
MOARPG Path of Exile 2 begins early access on November 15
At this afternoon's Opening Night Live show at Gamescom 2024, Grinding Gear Games formally announced that early access for Path of Exile 2 is...
Paragon successor Predecessor officially launches today as a F2P MOBA on PC and console
At this afternoon's Gamescom Opening Night Live, the indie team at Omeda Studios formally launched Predecessor, one of multiple MOBAs spawned from the remains...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 481: Pre-Gamescom MMO mini podcast
In this mini episode, Bree runs down Throne & Liberty's delay, New World's Aeternum beta, Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds launch, the Richard Garriott Ultima Online rumor, the state of Ultima Online New Legacy, Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt, the record-setting SWG Legends' SOEclipse event, and the approach of Gamescom.
RuneScape-inspired Brighter Shores says it won’t officially be complete until PvP arrives
With the early access launch of Brighter Shores planned for this fall, one big question's on the table for this RuneScape-inspired MMO: Will it...
World of Warcraft yeets Pandaria Remix characters to main servers, talks ‘new era’ of storytelling
It's the last Tuesday reset for World of Warcraft before The War Within arrives, and in many ways, the game is already off to...
Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds expansion officially launches with player housing today
Fellow MMO housing fans, furbish up your design skills because we're going to Janthir Wilds today.
Yes, Guild Wars 2's latest expansion officially rolls out...
The Daily Grind: How long are you willing to wait for an MMORPG from announcement to launch?
Back in July, Kotaku penned a piece on Kien, a game originally announced for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance... in 2002. Apparently, the game...