mmo roundup
MMO Week in Review: Bungie’s bungles, Fellowship’s fancies
Destiny 2's Bungie volunteered to be the industry villain of the week as it slashed multiple games and teams with cancelations and layoffs as...
MMO Week in Review: The WoWGG union and WoW’s War Within prepatch
World of Warcraft offered two pieces of huge news this week: Its developer team formed a wall-to-wall union, WoWGG, that includes members from multiple...
MMO Week in Review: Worlds, Solisium, and TennoCon
Lumpy Spacesuit Couture or not, Hello Games' No Man's Sky dropped a massive revamp-centric patch meant to enliven the MMO's environments, among other things....
MMO Week in Review: Early access windows for Corepunk and Pantheon
Two different MMORPGs announced early access this week, both planned for the end of the year: the long-awaited Corepunk, and the Kickstarted Pantheon. Something...
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak’s Palia buyout, Dawntrail’s peak concurrency
Even in a holiday week, the MMO news just kept coming: Daybreak startled nearly everyone by buying out Palia studio Singularity 6, Final Fantasy...
MMO Week in Review: Stars (Wars Galaxies 2) Reach
In my MMO guild, whenever somebody mentions a new game, it's tradition to absurdly announced that we're all moving to whatever it is, and...
MMO Week in Review: Tarisland, Pax Dei, and Black Desert’s Heidel Ball
Tarisland officially launched this week, treating global players to Tencent's WoW clone that looks... kinda less and less like a WoW clone as you...
MMO Week in Review: Aeternum, Fippyfest, and Equinox
New World has continued to dominate the MMORPG genre conversation all week as Amazon doubled down on insisting it's now an ARPG and annoying...
MMO Week in Review: Aeternum, Janthir Wilds, Dawntrail, Gold Road, and War Within
The not-E3 of early June seemed like it wouldn't have much in store for MMORPGs, but this week delivered in the end: New World...
MMO Week in Review: Unparalleled, Desperate Defiance, and Adrift
The week or so between Memorial Day and Not E3 is always packed with reveals and updates, and this week was no different for...
MMO Week in Review: Cataclysm II
World of Warcraft has been rent asunder with Cataclysm - again - as this week the expansion cracked open WoW Classic.
Meanwhile, we worried about...
MMO Week in Review: Pandaria Remix, Loot Reborn, Wayfinder Echoes
What a hell of a week for the MMO genre! Good and bad, as it were. We got previews of FFXIV Dawntrail, Guild Wars 2's...
MMO Week in Review: V Rising, Legends of Aria, Corepunk, and WoW Dark Heart
We had a mediumly newsy week here in the massively multiplayer world: Wagadu Chronicles announced a shutdown mid-early access, Legends of Aria Classic properly...
MMO Week in Review: Back to playing Uncle Owen, this time in SWTOR
Star Wars The Old Republic timed the announcement for its next big thing perfectly for Star Wars Day: This week, the team revealed GU...
MMO Week in Review: The deaths of ArcheAge and BlizzCon 2024
This was definitely not my favorite week in MMO history: Not only did we get sunset announcements for both ArcheAge and Genfanad but Blizzard...
MMO Week in Review: PlanetSide 2 departs Daybreak, WoW tests War Within
PlanetSide 2 is undergoing another round of upheaval this week as EG7-owned Daybreak announced that it's transferring development of the game over to EG7-owned...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard returns to China, WoW makes a mix tape
Blizzard and NetEase finally confirmed long-running rumors that they're putting the band back together: The companies agreed this week to renew their partnership more...
MMO Week in Review: Season of the Guardian
New World finally limped its way to Season of the Guardian, which frustratingly launched with a long list of bugs - but also player acknowledgement...
MMO Week in Review: Awaiting Guild Wars 3, accounting World of Warcraft
If you were prescient enough to put Guild Wars 3 on your predictions post from last year, congratulations: an NCsoft exec defending another NCsoft...
MMO Week in Review: Dawntrail, Plunderstorm, and the Riot MMO
You gotta love weeks stuffed so full of MMORPG news that we can't even decide what to focus on! This week, Final Fantasy XIV...
