mmo roundup
MMO Week in Review: Riot’s MMO, Albion’s new owners, Elyria’s revival
Who says nothing interesting happens right before the December holidays? Riot's working on an MMORPG, Albion Online's studio just got bought out, City State...
MMO Week in Review: MMOs at the edge of 2021, from Crimson Desert to Gates of Oblivion
While many PC and console gamers were obsessed with Cyberpunk 2077's launch this week, the MMO industry was busy delivering its outlook for the...
MMO Week in Review: Unbreaking Daybreak
If Daybreak's been a bit of a punching bag in the MMO genre over the last five years, it's only because of its long...
MMO Week in Review: Into the Shadowlands
So if you were all but holding your breath to see whether Blizzard was going to pull off World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, you can...
MMO Week in Review: Calling a Truce
It was a surprisingly huge week for MMORPGs, even setting aside the fact that WoW Shadowlands launches tomorrowday. Guild Wars 2 released Truce, we...
MMO Week in Review: Next-gen is now-gen
The Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 systems launched this week, which meant that a lot of companies who weren't launching games along with them...
MMO Week in Review: Marching to Markarth
If the last couple of years have taught us anything, it's to appreciate a low-key week when everything was fine and nothing was actively...
MMO Week in Review: WoW Shadowlands repositions for launch
This week in MMOs, we learned that Guild Wars 2's Steam launch and Path of Exile's next league would be delayed, which is a...
MMO Week in Review: No, LOTRO’s War of Three Peaks is not an ‘expansion’
This week, we took a first deep-dive into Torchlight III (we found it cheerfully "adequate"!) and struggled to puzzle out just why Standing Stone...
MMO Week in Review: Squishy squish squish
World of Warcraft's Shadowlands pre-patch launched successfully this week, with some squishing and some bugs and some downtime and some meandering through the new...
MMO Week in Review: Crucible is canceled
Good news, junior high students everywhere: The Crucible is canceled! Nobody even likes that play. It's boring and sanctimonious and tedious - good riddance!
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MMO Week in Review: Shadowlands postponed
World of Warcraft's Shadowlands delay - to later in 2020 - was by far the biggest news of the week, all but smothering news...
MMO Week in Review: The week Bethesda got bought
Welp, it definitely wasn't a boring week over here in the world of online games. It all kicked off on Monday, when Microsoft announced...
MMO Week in Review: Final Fantasy XVI’s sweet sixteen
Square-Enix raised eyebrows this week with the announcement of Final Fantasy XVI - and the revelation that FFXIV's Naoki Yoshida will be attempting to...
MMO Week in Review: A Heist, a security breach, and a whole New World
The week before Labor Day is always a weird one between conventions and bonus events, and this week was no different in spite of...
MMO Week in Review: EVE Echoes, Epic Games, and Reflections in Crystal
Well, at least this week wasn't boring! While gaming headlines were dominated by the emerging Epic Games lawsuits against Apple and Google over Fortnite...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard revenues are up, but morale is sunk
Activision-Blizzard (shareholders) had some good news this week, as its Q2 2020 revenues actually improved year-over-year for the first time in six quarters, owing...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s Jormag Rising has arisen
This week in the world of MMORPGs, Guild Wars 2's latest episode, Jormag Rising, rolled out to hungry players, albeit without voice acting just...
MMO Week in Review: ‘Well, I’m back,’ LOTRO said
Lord of the Rings Online dominated headlines this week thanks to a week and a half of outages with feeble communication indeed. But the...
MMO Week in Review: One does not simply log into LOTRO
I mean you can try, but you can't actually do it right now. It's calling you like the ring calls Boromir, but you're Gimli...
