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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,...
Diablo IV spruces up its looks, Diablo Immortal drops its first 2024 update, and Hearthstone updates its core set
Blizzard's being quite the busy little bee this week, so let's check in with the studio's multiplayer titles to see what's happening lately.
Diablo Immortal...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 463: WoW’s pirates storm the gangplank
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta delay, and New World's next season, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, The Sims 4, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on rekindling the social magic of old MMORPGs.
Blizzard’s Diablo IV gets a visual glow-up this week
While nobody's ever described Diablo IV as a "beautiful" game, it's certainly visually striking in some regards. Yet Blizzard isn't content with the graphical...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most macabre thing you’ve done or seen in an MMORPG?
MJ's coverage of the new gravedigging mechanics in Path of Exile (bury corpses of whole families together for a stat boost!) got me thinking...
Last Epoch writes a postmortem about its bumpy online launch and the lessons learned
Things may have leveled off for the online multiplayer experience in Last Epoch, but that certainly wasn't the case in the OARPG's first week,...
Wandering Wraeclast: Create your own graveyard with Path of Exile’s new Necropolis league
You've heard all about Path of Exile 2's news during Grinding Gear Games’ big development update livestream last night, so now it's time to...
Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile 2 showcases the Ranger, announces beta delay and June alpha
The wheels of Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile 2 info machine are moving, and we are here for it! Earlier this week, I...
ArcheAge 2 has been delayed (again), now to some point in or after 2025
Our eyes must have glazed over the Q4 2023 investor report from Kakao when it dropped a few weeks ago, but it contained some...
Diablo Immortal’s 2024 roadmap promises new class, new zone, and several gameplay updates
What does the road ahead look like for Diablo Immortal? Why don't you read a map, pal? A roadmap. Here, we'll even give you...
Blizzard is massively revamping Diablo IV’s itemization systems
If you had two hours to spare last night, then hopefully you spent it on something more fun than watching video game streams, but...
Global Chat: EverQuest hits the quarter-century mark
There's no way that The Ancient Gaming Noob would miss out on EverQuest's 25th anniversary: "So there is a lot going on if you...
Smilegate surveils the astrological features of Lost Ark’s in-game lore
OK, listen. Astronomy is real. Astrology is not real. Video game astrology is... also not real, but at least it's harmless and no sillier...
