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Pax Dei outlines changes to gathering, crafting, and looting coming in November 5’s Proving Grounds update
Pax Dei has about a week and a half left to go before its Proving Grounds update goes live, and while the biggest features...
Throne and Liberty’s Halloween event, Haunted Harvest, is finally here
So there's some good news and bad news with Throne and Liberty's Halloween event. The bad news is that it was delayed a day;...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO world you don’t control
Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I attempted to lay out my thesis for what it means when we say MMOs require other people....
Nightingale patches in Halloween and confirms layoffs at Inflexion’s UK subsidiary
It's patch day over in co-op sandbox Nightingale, and it's a good patch too as it includes the game's Halloween event.
"Head on over to...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s first 64 bit server and Lanterns of the Mist event are live today
Cormyr is officially here in Dungeons and Dragons Online today - that's the first 64 bit server the 18-year-old MMORPG has ever had. Studio...
Lost Ark cracks down on Ignite reward chest exploiters, launches Aegir raid
Lost Ark fans have been up in arms the past week over a nasty exploit with the brand-new Ignite reward chests - and now,...
Trove launches Shadow’s Eve, revamps the newbie tutorial, and Releases the Kraken on console
Gamigo's voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove is trundling into the Halloween spirit with the release of Shadow's Eve today.
"It’s time for some ooky spooky goodness...
RuneScape provides information about Gate of Elidinis drop rates as it prepares for Halloween
Have you been running through RuneScape's Gate of Elidinis skilling boss fight over and over again, wondering why you can't get that one freakin'...
Helldivers 2 completes sweeping buffs and commits to more comms as jump-jetting Automatons menace players
Last month brought some big changes to the co-op shooter Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead Studios deployed a huge buff-granting update that brought the "power"...
Fractured Online reworks consumables and tweaks armor penetration ahead of free-to-play transition
Following the news that Fractured Online is tweaking its content roadmap and going free-to-play, Dynamight Studios has followed through on its planned updates with...
Pax Dei confirms its next big update, Proving Grounds, will arrive on November 5 – alongside server merges
For the past couple of weeks, Pax Dei has been talking up its next major content update, which is set to bring things like...
Part one of Villagers & Heroes’ Crux expansion is live for subscription players
Villagers and Heroes fans have been awaiting the first chunk of the Crux patch since its tease earlier this month, and now it's finally...
World of Warcraft expands dracthyr classes for its 20th birthday, plus Blizzard patches Hearthstone and Diablo IV
Blizzard is busy this time of year, in just about every one of its online games. Let's start with World of Warcraft, as Blizzard...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs rely on other people – but what does that really mean?
Now that we're done with Leveling Month in Vague Patch Notes, is there another topic I can turn into a month-and-change of column topics?...
Viking colony survivalbox ASKA adds town militias and seasonal crops with the Farmers and Fighters update
Are you a farmer or a fighter? Well luckily in the Viking-themed multiplayer colony management survivalbox ASKA you can be both, especially considering the...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends expands the Galactic Moon Festival for Halloween 2024
One of the oldest - and goofiest - MMORPG Halloween events has returned today thanks to player-run Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends:...
Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?
All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
Lost Ark will be offline most of today patching in the Arkesia Ignited update
It's patch day for Lost Ark, though you may not get to play much today, as downtime for Arkesia Ignited is currently underway, with...
Nightingale fixes issues include with pots, boss AI, and NPC dialogue
So apparently pots and garden plots in Nightingale were accidentally being possessed by a thousand angry vengeful plant spirits. That's the official explanation in...
Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling
We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...