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Perfect Ten: The wild MMORPGs that came out in 2011
Not every year sees equal releases in the MMORPG genre. We've had years of starvation and years of plenty. Every so often it's fun...
Who is Fawkes Games, Defiance’s new operator, and what other titles are under its care?
With Gamigo reviving and offloading sci-fi MMO Defiance to Fawkes Games for a relaunch next month, there's some question about who this Fawkes is...
The Daily Grind: Do you appreciate brutal honesty from MMORPG devs?
A few weeks back, the few remaining Might and Delight developers admitted in print that Kickstarted MMO Book of Travels is basically in maintenance...
Whatever happened to Bless Unleashed’s PC version?
"Hey, yeah, I remember Bless Unleashed! Wasn't that a bit of a mess," we hear you presumably say. And yes, it kind of was:...
The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
Why I Play: Splatoon 3 – 2025 edition
When I first reviewed the original Splatoon, I noted that Nintendo didn't "get" online play yet but had instead created a game that did well...
What happens to Grand Theft Auto Online when GTA6 arrives this fall?
In January, my furnace died, and when the furnace dude arrived, he took one look at our gaming setup and launched into how excited...
Temtem continues to defend its final content patch as ‘the completion of a journey that began eight years ago’
A couple of weeks ago, Crema Games marked two million total users for its creature collecting MMO Temtem by spending some of its time...
Elder Scrolls Legends has officially sunsetted after years of lingering in maintenance mode
Back in November, we covered the sad news that multiplayer CCG Elder Scrolls Legends was truly doomed. After siloing the game off under a...
Temtem marks two million total users, celebrates by deflecting player requests for content updates
Temtem continues to prove to be a more popular game overall than any of the side projects its development studio has deigned to work...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025
I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
Temtem Swarm gets a minor quality-of-life patch while promising a content update preview this week
The players who have decided that Temtem Swarm is indeed their jam would like some new content. The players who are more dedicated to...
Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?
Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...
Heroes of the Storm’s next patch brings back Brawls – permanently – after nearly five years
As has now become almost a regular habit, another patch has gone up the test realm for Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's ostensibly maintenance-moded...
Splatoon 3’s Frosty Fest brings a few gifts to the new year
Yes, the game may be in maintenance mode, but Splatoon 3's still making good on its promise to hold certain seasonal events, and we've...
Valve’s maintenance-moded TCG Artifact saw a bizarre surge of thousands of players last week
When a game enters maintenance mode, there's always the brief hope that it will suddenly garner wider interest and see at least a small...
Tamriel Infinium: I’m no doomer, but I’m worried about the future of Elder Scrolls Online
If alarm bells were faintly ringing over Elder Scrolls Online owing to events transpiring early in December, now they're blaring klaxons with the release...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025
We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...
Square-Enix’s multiplayer arena shooter Foamstars is entering maintenance mode after less than a year
Did you know that Square-Enix released a 4v4 arena shooter in the vein of Splatoon for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 less than...
