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Lost Ark’s Monster Bash October update launches the continent of Pleccia today
It's called the Monster Bash, and it was meant to go live this morning in Lost Ark's October update. Don't get too excited at...
Activision-Blizzard will add more games to Xbox Game Pass in 2024
It's possible to be cognizant that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision represents a worrying ongoing trend of consolidation across the game industry while still be...
Pax Dei discusses classless characters, consensual PvP, and grueling corpse recovery post-death
Last summer, the devs of sandbox MMO Pax Dei asked players for "patience" regarding an alpha date and promised more info about the PvE...
Lawful Neutral: Reverse engineering World of Warcraft’s subscriber numbers
Do you know what time it is? It's almost quarterly financial report time! We probably won't see a full quarterly report from Activision-Blizzard as...
Diablo Immortal brings Hallow’s Wake event October 18, Diablo IV primes players for Season of Blood
The Diablo franchise is already a Halloween-adjacent sort of experience, but that's by no means a reason for the mobile version Diablo Immortal to...
The MOP Up: It’s the great Albion, Charlie Brown!
Albion Online is getting into the spirit of Halloween with its Harvest Challenge: "Fall has come to the world of Albion... the shadows are...
Diablo IV launches on Steam alongside Season of Blood on October 17
Who had Diablo IV as the next Blizzard game to flock to Steam for more players? Probably most of us, honestly, given how the...
Mad World’s latest patch adds harder dungeons, new gear attributes, and its newest battle pass
Mad World is still doing its thing - albeit not on Steam still - with another weekly content patch that applies a variety of...
Lost Ark’s next update arrives October 11 with the romantic continent of Pleccia
If it seems as if the September update for Lost Ark just landed yesterday, well that's because this fall is moving along at a...
Diablo IV internal test build gets a 2.0 version designation, suggesting work on its first expansion
Are you ready to soar into the skies of wild presumptions and lofty assumptions? Then feast your eyes upon the latest scuttlebutt out of...
Realm of the Mad God Season 8 brings a tavern brawl mini-dungeon, new battle pass, and new crucible
It's time for a new season in the bullet hell dungeon crawling MMORPG Realm of the Mad God, and this season has a little...
Massively Overthinking: The impact of jump start servers in MMOs
With Chris' Choose My Adventure run on Lost Ark - specifically, on its jump-start servers - coming to a close, I thought it would...
Tencent’s not-a-WoW-clone Tarisland snagged a former World of Warcraft composer for its score
It's not every day that a new MMORPG even talks about its composer or score, let alone sends 'round a press release talking up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 438: EverQuest what’s next?
Justin and Bree discuss the potential for EverQuest 3, the LOTRO remaster's cancelation, EVE Fanfest's EVE Online Havoc and EVE Vanguard reveals, WoW Classic's about-face on LFD, Pantheon's new art style, and Marvel Heroes' code leak, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and Glitch Odd Giants.
Choose My Adventure: Wrestling with disappointment, boredom, and comfort in Lost Ark’s jump start server
It was probably asking a lot of myself to cut through Lost Ark as quickly as possible so that I could get to the...
Lost Ark hands out free gifts, accelerates jump start server timeline
The new jump start servers are the talk of Lost Ark's town this month, as new and returning players can experience an accelerated leveling...
Grinding Gear releases ExileCon dev video on Path of Exile 2’s enemy creation
Path of Exile had plenty to say at this year's ExileCon - readers know that we fully covered the event - but for those...
Lost Ark’s Mokoko Kindergarten ark pass launches tomorrow
Now don't take this the wrong way, but Lost Ark is going to send you back to school. It's going to school you. It...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring Lost Ark’s jump start server and a regular XP-boosted character
Last week was a close vote here in Choose My Adventure World Land slash Waffle House. The vote came down to one person casting...
Diablo II Resurrected outlines modes and timing for September 28’s Ladder Season 5
It's almost time to climb the ladder once again in Diablo II: Resurrected once again, assuming you're the sort who likes ladder climbing: Ladders...