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Albion Online’s Wild Blood patch is live with shapeshifting weapons, tracking, and island updates
Albion Online's massive fall patch is finally rolling out today: Wild Blood is officially live, with its promised tracking system, new potions, awakened items,...
Elite Dangerous outlines patch timing and teases October 16’s Update 17
What's coming in Update 17 for Elite: Dangerous? We don't know yet; Frontier Developments always puts out the patch notes on the day of...
SWG Legends kicks off the Galactic Moon Festival 2023 for Halloween
Halloween comes not just to live MMORPGs but to dead ones - dead ones still running on rogue servers, that is. So it is...
Vague Patch Notes: Why procedural generation doesn’t solve the content problems of MMOs
Just yesterday, MOP's Justin ran down the various features that the long-canceled EverQuest Next promised before its demise - including the promise of all...
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...
Wayfinder’s mid-season update today offers new quests and the Call of the Void event
Wayfinder has been in early access for nearly two months now, and it just so happens that today marks the start of the MMO-lite's...
Fractured’s latest beta patch adds wagon updates and challenging new boss encounters
The beta patches of sandbox MMORPG Fractured continue to roll out, and while the latest one doesn't add too much in terms of content,...
Zenith’s Might and Mastery patch adds leaderboards, revamps its skill tree, and adjusts the early game
Have you felt that earning levels in Zenith is a little bit boring? Then perhaps the next patch coming to the VR MMORPG will...
MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives to celebrate Halloween all through October
The month of October is Halloween. This is now an inalienable truth because most of the internet has decreed it so, and it's being...
Vague Patch Notes: Why people can’t just ignore things they don’t want in MMORPGs
As I often do, I'm going to start this column with a bit of history. But in this particular case, it's a bit of...
Fractured accidentally patched in the new tutorial island in today’s imbuing update to the beta
There are bad oopses, and there are good oopses, and it's a good oops that has befallen Fractured Online today. "In a moment of rare...
Lord of the Rings Online opens preorders for Corsairs of Umbar expansion, launching November 1
As expected - although not as properly communicated from the studio - Lord of the Rings Online's Corsairs of Umbar is officially open for...
Tomorrow’s Lord of the Rings Online patch notes appear to include the Mariner class itself
Standing Stone Games is being weirdly cagey about its release schedule for Lord of the Rings Online's Corsairs of Umbar, but if our guess...
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...
Wisdom of Nym: The packed October for Final Fantasy XIV following patch 6.5
Tomorrow, patch 6.5 will be live for Final Fantasy XIV. That's the last patch of the Endwalker cycle, which means the first part of...
The MOP Up: Soulframe releases a soundtrack tidbit
Soulframe fans starved to hear something -- anything -- about Digital Extremes' upcoming fantasy RPG were thrown an audio morsel this week in the...
Final Fantasy XIV posts the preliminary patch notes for next week’s Growing Light update
Final Fantasy XIV fans can pretty much set their watch to a number of things that the MMORPG puts out, and one of those...
Vague Patch Notes: The games industry arrogance cycle, in MMOs and elsewhere
Unity has fallen. Oh, sure, the company has rolled back the worst parts of its incredibly boneheaded "give us money for your successful game"...
Wisdom of Nym: Open questions spawned by the Tokyo Game Show’s Final Fantasy XIV live letter
Thanks to the Tokyo Game Show, we've had our last Final Fantasy XIV live letter live letter before the patch, and aside from the...
Vague Patch Notes: So what actually kills MMO communities?
Since we're busy getting a front-row seat to World of Warcraft adding the dungeon finder again, only this time it's WoW Classic, we are...
