mmo news roundup
MMO Week in Review: The end of Elder Scrolls Online’s expanshachapters
Elder Scrolls Online stunned - even panicked - many MMO players this week with the revelation that it's cutting its cadence back and canceling...
MMO Week in Review: Pantheon’s early access, Elder Scrolls Online’s union
An "overwhelming majority of video game workers" at Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios formally unionized this week, becoming the third union at Microsoft's...
MMO Week in Review: Path of Exile 2 is finally here
So Path of Exile 2 isn't an MMORPG, but should count as an MMO? Well, Steam has it flagged that way, so you can...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s roadmap, Corepunk’s early access
After weeks of needling, Amazon finally delivered a roadmap for New World this week: The studio is introducing what it's calling "seasonal worlds," the...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2 Godspawn, WoW Classic Classic
What a week for the MMORPG genre: Guild Wars 2 released Godspawn, WoW Classic Classic launched with nary a hitch, FFXIV's Crossroads was pretty...
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft will be ‘home’ by Midnight
Most MMO players who thought World of Warcraft should have housing also never expected it to happen, largely because, you know, the devs kept...
MMO Week in Review: Legacy of Morgoth vs. Brighter Shores
The MMORPG genre saw two big launches this week: First, Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG from one of the RuneScape's creators, made its early...
MMO Week in Review: Ascendancy, Horizons, and U44
It was a surprisingly big patch week for the MMORPG genre: Elder Scrolls Online pushed out Update 44, Elite Dangerous launched its Ascendancy patch,...
MMO Week in Review: For WoW’s birthday, you’re giving it another $90
World of Warcraft raised eyebrows this week as it began selling a $90 specialty mount that is unabashedly pay-to-win thanks to its baked in...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s promising Aeternum, Star Citizen’s big promises
New World was the big MMORPG story this week as Amazon officially brought the game to consoles under the Aeternum banner, though PC players...
MMO Week in Review: Pouring one out for Cryptic Studios
Embracer has apparently all but finished off the remains of Cryptic Studios: While Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online have been incrementally shipped...
MMO Week in Review: Throne & Liberty hits 336K
Throne & Liberty set another new Steam PC record this weekend after zooming on from its paid headstart into its free-to-play launch: 336,300 people...
MMO Week in Review: Throne & Liberty arrives, ArcheAge 2 reinvents
NCsoft and Amazon pushed Throne & Liberty into its paid headstart this week, ahead of the proper free-to-play launch next week - and it's...
MMO Week in Review: The Throne & Liberty countdown
We're in the home stretch for Throne & Liberty now, as its early access is set to kick off this week. For context, we...
MMO Week in Review: Land of the Morning Light Seoul, Aeternum, and EVE Frontier
Black Desert officially launched an expansion this week, marking the fifth of the so-called Big Five MMORPGs to do so in 2024. Land of...
MMO Week in Review: Dude, you’re gettin’ a delve
This week in MMOs, we've been enjoying World of Warcraft's The War Within, both with impressions and modding recs. Also this week I had...
MMO Week in Review: RIP Blue Protocol, welcome The War Within
I found myself thinking of Peria Chronicles this week, thanks to Bandai Namco's decision to shutter the local version of Blue Protocol before it...
MMO Week in Review: The War Within Janthir Wilds
This last chunk of August might just be the peak of the summer for the MMORPG genre: Not only did Guild Wars 2 release...
MMO Week in Review: Myth Drannor, Janthir Wilds ahoy, and Throne & Liberty delayed
This week in the world of MMORPGs tried its damnedest to make up for the week before (iykyk): Throne & Liberty got a two-week...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s truncated season, Corepunk’s paid alpha
New World just can't stop seem to stop hitting itself: This week, Amazon suffered an undisclosed issue with its season leaderboard and wound up...
