OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”
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You can begin patching for Path of Exile’s Sentinel launch… now [Update: It’s live!]
Happy Sentinel day! Grinding Gear Games is rolling out Path of Exile's Sentinel expansion and league today as planned, so we hope you've got...
Lost Ark KR’s director is reportedly stepping down because of health concerns
According to myriad unofficial reports from fans across Lost Ark's official forums and subreddit, the director for the Korean version of the game, Keum...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 372: Blizzard’s great mobile hope
Justin and bree discuss Blizzard's quarterly financials, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, Forsaken World's sunset, ZeniMax's rumored Star Wars MMO, and EVE Fanfest and its COVID outbreak, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends, plus a voicemail topic on MMOs moving from fantasy to sci-fi.
Diablo Immortal explains why its Realm of Damnation shouldn’t be your summer vacation destination
You would think that all of Diablo Immortal's hellish world would be a saturated in damnation, but apparently there are gradiant tiers of awfulness...
Lost Ark previews May’s upcoming new raids, quests, and Destroyer advanced class
We're just entering the month of May and that means that Lost Ark players are going to have some new content to face, most...
Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing
We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...
Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile’s Sentinel update enhances endgame with new passives and mob modifiers
Earlier this afternoon, Grinding Gear Games announced Path of Exile's foray into in-game "pets" (with a twist!) coming with the new Sentinel league that...
Wandering Wraeclast: Pets pounce into Path of Exile’s new Sentinel league
Two things I absolutely love in games are housing and pets. And having both just makes a game better! Path of Exile already has...
Lost Ark times its May content update for third week of the month, details a bug-fixing patch today
Launching your May update near the latter part of the month still technically counts as a launch in May, and that's just what Lost...
Lost Ark begins blocking VPNs to help servers struggling with bot-laden queues
If you're on certain Lost Ark servers, you might have noticed that the queues aren't really going away, even in the middle of the...
Global Chat: Who gets to decide what is ‘fun’ in MMORPGs?
In a thought-provoking essay, MMO blog Parallel Context wrestled with the question, "Who gets to decide what is fun in multiplayer games?" This is...
The Stream Team: Checking up on the open beta of Space Punks
Last time he was in the OARPG Space Punks, MOP's Chris was... not very impressed. However, that was last August, and the game has...
Lost Ark’s latest update fixes express mission toons, targets mid-May for May update
As promised, Lost Ark's weekly update has arrived to fix all the annoyances with the express mission event.
The patch allows players to change their...
Lost Ark tweaks Express Mission Event rewards, sees concurrency upturn
So you started doing the Express Mission Event on Lost Ark but then realized that you had another character who could benefit way more...
Lost Ark KR gets new continent and new abyss dungeon on April 27
For those who follow the content updates of the Korean version of Lost Ark in order to keep abreast of what's eventually headed to...
Blizzard explains why – and how – it’s porting Diablo Immortal to PC
Earlier today, Blizzard attempt to offset Activision-Blizzard's dismal quarterly financials with the news that Diablo Immortal is launching in June - and on PC...
Path of Exile’s new patch brings a beta version of its DirectX 12 renderer and another round of fixes
It's time to test the visual limits of Path of Exile as the multiplayer ARPG's newest patch has introduced the beta version of the...
MMOARPG Diablo Immortal launches June 2 – the same day its PC open beta begins
Buried in this morning's frankly disastrous Activision-Blizzard quarterly financial report is some actual good news for gamers (and Blizzard itself, which could use a...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2022: Revenues plummet, Blizzard loses another 2M players
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials.
As of this morning, we have Q1's results, comprising January, February, and March 2022, a...
Lost Ark’s April update release was marred by item issues and server woes
While the Battle for the Throne of Chaos went underway in Lost Ark earlier in the week, another battle was being fought by Amazon...
