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NCsoft Q3 2022: Lineage W drives QoQ revenues, Guild Wars 2 had a great year
NCsoft's Q3 2022 financials are another tale of ups and downs. While the South Korean MMO company's revenues have declined for the last few...
First impressions of Marvel Snap, an addictive mobile card game by Hearthstone’s former director
Feeling the effects of the "superhero movie fatigue syndrome" that's going around these days, I wasn't overly eager to check out Marvel Snap when...
Massively Overthinking: The New World comeback
New World is having a bit of a comeback moment - or is it?
Since the launch of Brimstone Sands and the fresh start servers...
Here’s how to save your Lost Ark skill tree effects before next week’s overhaul
Among the many things coming to Lost Ark next week with the November 16th update is an overhaul of the game's skill tree transfer...
Perfect Ten: 10 metrics to check to gauge MMO success or failure
There are a lot of MMOs out there. How do you know which one of them is the most popular and therefore the best...
Diablo Immortal merged a ton of servers with today’s update
How well is Diablo Immortal doing right now? Well, we've had a couple of clues: Its global launch in June wasn't enough to rescue...
Lost Ark’s Reaper class will finally launch in the west on November 16
While Korean players have already been Reaping it up since September 2020, players in the west have had to wait until this month's update...
Lost Ark announces an upcoming collaboration with The Witcher in spring 2023
Would you like to share grunts with Geralt in Lost Ark? If you said something to the effect of, "That's not possible, you silly...
Rumor: Diablo IV could release in April 2023, with pre-orders available during The Game Awards 2022
When can players expect to wander the darkity-dark of Diablo IV? Sometime in the first portion of 2023 if some rumors are to be...
The Daily Grind: What would you say is the best item rarity system in MMOs?
Let's talk about rarity systems in MMOs! The first one I remember was Ultima Online's, and it was text-based without colors and hardly counts....
Raven workers accuse Activision-Blizzard of ‘continued intransigence’ during union negotiations
Yesterday, we went in-depth on some of the ways Activision-Blizzard is attempting to obstruct the union forming within Diablo IV substudio Blizzard Albany, but...
Path of Exile answers player questions about the upcoming Ruthless mode
Despite the name, Path of Exile's upcoming Ruthless mode will in fact allow you to have a character named Ruth, or Ruth-Anne, or Ruthie....
Diablo IV devs talk up the ARPG’s ‘return to darkness’ in the tonal and literal sense
Dark. Darkity dark dark. Darkness. It's what the devs of Diablo IV have crowed about before, and it's the subject of discussion once again...
Path of Exile elaborates on the punishing handicaps that December’s Ruthless mode applies
Last week Grinding Gear Games had expounded on, among other things, a new name and initial details for Path of Exile's new hard mode...
Path of Exile elaborates on November’s Endless Delve event and rewards
Last week, Path of Exile shared some information about several events arriving this month, which prompted some player questions about event systems and rewards...
Valofe resurrects the sunsetted Diablo-like MMO Cronous in a Steam re-release
Usually, when an MMO has announced its closure, that's often the last word. However, some games refuse to go into that good night like...
Path of Exile delays next expansion, confirms Lake of Kalandra will not be a permanent fixture for now
As the next expansion for Path of Exile looms, the thoughts of both players and developer Grinding Gear Games now turn to what's next,...
Lost Ark’s Mystics and Mayhem is live with the Aldebaran Harvest Festival limited-time event
Happy patch day to Lost Ark fans, whose Mystics and Mayhem rollout began early this morning and is on the live servers as you're...
Former Diablo producer discusses Activision’s heavy hand as Diablo Immortal adds character transfers
It's slowly becoming more obvious that the merger between Blizzard and Activision has had an indelible effect on the games coming from the studio,...
Choose My Adventure: Alone in the crowd of Lost Ark’s endgame
Even at the max level in Lost Ark, I find that I'm still kind of playing alone. A little bit. Though I suppose I...
