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Lost Ark addresses bugs, unleashes ‘Fever Time Weekend’, and reminds us to hate Daylight Saving Time
Overnight, Amazon and Smilegate patched up Lost Ark with a mismatchy hotfix that isn't just a hotfix. The patch does include a list of...
Whatever happened to Torchlight III? Well, Game Pass is dropping it
In many ways, spring 2021's Cursed Captain update was the last big hurrah for the beleaguered Torchlight III -- and it wasn't even that...
One Shots: My best buddy and me
One of the best parts of MMORPGs is when you make good friends while online. Of course, those are supposed to be human friends...
Lost Ark addresses gold sellers, matchmaking problems, and Central Europe queues
While Lost Ark is still a rip-roaring success for Amazon in terms of player numbers (especially when compared to its other game), there are...
The Daily Grind: Is Lost Ark an MMO, MMORPG, or neither?
Longtime MMO and MMORPG players have probably noticed that we do our best to flag games as MMORPG or as merely multiplayer - "not...
Massively Overthinking: How do alts fit into MMORPGs in 2022?
Last weekend, my play group took a second batch of Guild Wars 2 alts to Cantha, and we found ourselves a bit grumbly about...
Lost Ark’s Hunt for the Guardian Slayer patch is live as Amazon addresses genderlocking and armor
It's a stag party over in Lost Ark today, and by that we mean the Argos abyss raid has officially launched with the rest...
Lost Ark offers a preview of March’s Argos Abyss Raid
The Murder Elk. The Disco Deer. The Stag of Pain Pizza. These are the pet names I've already come up with for Argos, the...
Diablo III prepares ‘echoing nightmares’ for Patch 2.7.3
Starting Thursday, Diablo III will be testing Patch 2.7.3 in preparation for the release of Season 26 later this month. The keystone feature of...
Lost Ark celebrates 20M global players as concurrency dips and roadmap sees delay
You might be eyeing Lost Ark's Steam population with trepidation, but Amazon and Smilegate are looking at bigger numbers, quite literally: Last night, the...
Path of Exile releases a patch with bug fixes of ‘both small and medium importance’
The things that are important in an MMO patch are certainly subjective, but by Path of Exile's reckoning, the patch that released last week...
Fight or Kite: Lost Ark’s PvP is a well-designed experience for Lost Ark players
Lost Ark was a game that may as well have been vaporware for so many years. It plays basically like a Diablo game, although...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO market too segmented?
Back in November 2021's Activision-Blizzard quarterly investor call, Blizzard's Mike Ybarra spoke about the company's vision for the Diablo franchise. He essentially said that...
The MOP Up: Ravendawn wraps up ‘epic’ Alpha 4 test
The Ravendawn team reported that it recently wrapped up a successful and "epic" Alpha 4 test. Now all attention is aimed at Alpha 5...
One Shots: Murder palaces are always so inviting
The Secret World was always good at creating spaces that you take one look at and go, "Nope! Not going to walk in there!...
Lost Ark bans over a million bot accounts, reaffirms there’s ‘more work to be done’ on the matter
After a certain figure, a banwave turns into a ban tsunami: Amazon Games has put out a missive to players regarding bot accounts operating...
Diablo II Resurrected releases Patch 2.4’s ranked ladder and additional class changes to PTR this week
Last month, devs of Diablo II: Resurrected stated that testing for Patch 2.4 would push on later in the month. Perhaps the team forgot...
Lost Ark’s T1 and T2 content nerf is now live as Amazon sees T3 as the real endgame
If you were still unsettled by the mild controversy over Lost Ark's planned dungeon difficulty balancing update, well, continue being unsettled, as those changes...
Lost Ark addresses gold spam, EU queues, and the big raid and dungeon nerf
Yesterday's Lost Ark preview from Amazon and Smilegate focused on the big March update - content, lore, and islands. But what about everything players...
Lost Ark reveals new storyline, islands, and raids for players coming in March update
Lost Ark hasn't even been out in the west for a month and already Amazon is moving forward with a big March update for...
