OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”
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The MOP Up: FFXIV recaps its PAX East appearance
In case you missed it in person, you can catch up with all of Final Fantasy XIV's PAX East 2024 developments in a recap...
Torchlight Infinite skyrockets to its best numbers in over a year thanks to its Whispering Mist season
It may prove to be a momentary blip in the scheme of things, but a resurgence of interest in Torchlight Infinite has returned this...
Lost Ark’s Darkness Unleashed is live with the Thaemine Legion Raid and gear transcendence
Amazon has successfully patched Lost Ark's April update as of this morning: Dubbed Darkness Unleashed, this is the patch with the Thaemine Legion Raid,...
Mad World will condense all of its regional servers into one single server April 25
So hey, how are things going for Mad World? Well, if the OARPG's latest announcement is to be taken at face value, things possibly...
Blizzard’s return to China has already counted over two million interested WoW players
After over a year of bad blood following the removal of most all Blizzard's games from China, the World of Warcraft studio is poised...
Last Epoch ends floating capes, t-posing mages, and other bugs in latest patch
Life in the OARPG of Last Epoch has hopefully gotten a whole lot less buggy thanks to its most recent patch, which has primarily...
Diablo IV boss discusses whether season 4 constitutes a whole new game
If I had a nickel for every time a game dev or a gamer insisted that a patch to a game constituted a whole...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Rumor: Bungie is (or at least was?) supposedly working on Destiny 3
According to reporting on multiple websites this morning, Bungie wasn't just blowing hot air during yesterday's The Final Shape stream when the studio's Luke...
The last remains of Perfect World Entertainment rebrand as Arc Games following Gearbox sale to Take-Two
Don't look now, but the chunk of Gearbox that MMORPG players cared about is changing its name.
Readers will recall that back in 2021, Embracer...
NetEase and Blizzard ink deal to revive World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, and Diablo IV in China
(As of late tonight, Blizzard has officially confirmed the rumors. Our original post follows, and we've updated with the official news at the end.)
It's...
IMCGames’ Tree of Savior introduces the Desperado class, Papaya’s Tree of Savior adds the Godeye class
It's a tale of two editions of Tree of Savior, as both the Steam version from IMCGames and the standalone global edition from Papaya...
Lost Ark debuts new video series, talks upcoming Thaemine hard mode and clear race
Amazon is clearly taking a new tack with comms on its MMORPGs, as New World's new video series Eye on Aeternum has now been...
Global Chat: What should we be thinking about Guild Wars 3?
The surprising (and not surprising) news that ArenaNet has the go-ahead from NCsoft to develop Guild Wars 3 sent ripples of interest, confusion, and...
Here’s how GGG is sprucing up Path of Exile’s Necropolis post-launch
Ideally, Path of Exile are having a gothic grave-digging good time with the current Necropolis league, but that doesn't mean everything is perfectly balanced....
LOTRO Legendarium: Middle-earth’s world integrity is an endangered species in MMOs
Back in 2018, Steven Spielberg adapted the popular novel Ready Player One into a film. It seemed like a great pairing: The master director...
Path of Exile has cracked open the doors to its Necropolis expansion
Considering how dark and brooding Path of Exile is, you have to imagine that the developers had to come up with a shade blacker...
Diablo IV arrives to Game Pass subscribers, Diablo III reruns Forbidden Archives April 12
This week brought the marquee event that supporters of Microsoft's multi-billion dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard were likely eager for: Diablo IV is now available...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
NetEase and Marvel Games are building a new team shooter called Marvel Rivals, with closed alpha in May
The lack of Marvel in the MMO space has always seemed kind of weird, especially given the vacuum left by the beloved Marvel Heroes,...
