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The MOP Up: Aion, Lineage 2, and Blade and Soul get ready for a new launcher
Blade and Soul, Lineage II, and Aion are all preparing to migrate everyone from the old launcher to the new PLAYNC platform. NCsoft posted...
New World offers players guidance on how to navigate the Garden of Genesis
The Garden of Genesis is not, as a rule, a place for New World players to have a pleasant and relaxing stroll. It is...
Betawatch: Nightingale heads into early access at last
After what feels like it has been forever - well, wait, that's not fair. Nightingale has actually been in not-early-access for a reasonable length...
War Thunder previews the Jaguar IS coming as a reward for the Sword of Justice event
In a game that involves a lot of airplanes flying around doing airplane fighting things (shooting missiles, doing barrel rolls, riding into the danger...
Final Fantasy XIV is hosting a panel at PAX East this year
Among all of Final Fantasy XIV's playerbase, there is one question that everyone wants to have answered: What's the actual deal with Hildibrand? How...
Crema Games says it is ‘still working on Temtem’ following Temtem Swarm backlash
If you're just a wee bit anxious about Temtem these days, what with a new spinoff being announced after the last spinoff didn't work, the...
Final Fantasy XIV brings back the Final Fantasy XV collaboration next week
It's time to get back in the car, loser, because Final Fantasy XIV is going collaborating. (Note: this applies to people who are not...
Xbox’s Phil Spencer insists Microsoft’s mass-layoffs position it for future growth, somehow
Everyone just loves Phil Spencer these days, right? Oh, right, all the layoffs. Probably not, then. But according to a recent interview with Game...
City of Heroes: Homecoming i27p7 is live with newbie improvements, new story arc, and new powersets
A month and a half ago, City of Heroes came back when the Homecoming servers got the official license from NCsoft. A month ago,...
RuneScape cleans up quest requirements while adding Necromancy dyes
We hope that none of you are reading the latest news about the RuneScape update for this week via dictation. Otherwise you will be...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 458: PlanetSide 2 in limbo
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak selling PlanetSide, Nightingale's early access, Islands of Insight's launch, and NCsoft's financials with Guild Wars 2 and Throne & Liberty, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on features we want to see in features for Amazon's LOTR and ZeniMax's Star Wars MMOs.
Zenith’s spin-off game Infinite Realms has begun its free open beta
Will today be the day that you decide to fling some blades at things before jumping through parkour courses in VR? Zenith's developers certainly...
The MOP Up: Undecember creates one-player raids
Just because you're a social pariah doesn't mean that you can't raid in Undecember! The hack-and-slash multiplayer RPG pumped out a new patch that...
Betawatch: Islands of Insight launches straight out the gate
So it does not matter what you think about Islands of Insight because that game just launched. Do you know how long that game...
Palworld’s community manager suggests you just… play other games if you’re bored
It probably does not need to be restated that Palworld is an odd game. A very odd game, as it happens. But you don't...
Baldur’s Gate 3 is making companion management a bit easier with its upcoming Patch 6
It's pretty clear that Baldur's Gate 3 was a hit by any metric, and it is an uncontroversial opinion to say that the game...
Narrative director Steve Danuser quietly left World of Warcraft last fall
It turns out that World of Warcraft's narrative director left Blizzard last November and no one said anything about it. No, that doesn't mean...
Zenith explains how its free-to-play instanced spinoff Infinite Realms uses procedural generation
So the upcoming free-to-play spinoff title for VR MMORPG Zenith, which was announced at the start of the month, is using procedural generation. How...
Crowfall owner Monumental hit with layoffs while eyeing blockchain
The question of Crowfall's existence has been an unanswered one for quite some time ever since the game was purchased by Mythgard publisher Monumental...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 457: Sailing into February with cannons blazing
Justin and Bree discuss Skull & Bones, FFXIV on Xbox, WoW Classic, New World, and Nightingale, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on day and night cycles and getting out of MMO gaming ruts.
