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Ultima Online’s New Legacy and crackdown on third-party clients have vets rioting
Ultima Online is a very old and fairly small MMORPG nowadays, but even so you probably knew that it has a thriving emulator community,...
The MOP Up: Perfect World’s co-CEOs tap out
GamesIndustry is reporting that the two co-CEOs of Perfect World have been replaced as CEOs but remain as directors: "Perfect World CEO Xiao Hong...
The Game Archaeologist: A look back at proto-MMOs through the 1980s
Today I want to try something a little different as we look at MMORPG history. Rather than focus in on a single title or...
Hearthstone apologizes for the past 18 months, shares ‘Fun, Focus, and Fearless’ vision
While Hearthstone's brand-new Perils in Paradise expansion should be the talk of the game these days, Blizzard is instead doing damage control over an...
World of Warcraft debuts the official cinematic trailer for The War Within
Are you ready to get hyped? Possibly confused? Perhaps you're going to wonder just who these people are? There's a little something for every...
Path of Exile Settlers of Kalguur launch drove its Steam concurrency to an all-time peak
Last night, the Settlers of Kalguur update hit Path of Exile, which of course means it's time for the usual check-in on how the...
SDCC 2024: Daybreak unveils LOTRO’s Legacy of Morgoth and DCUO’s Harley Quinn vs. Apokolips
This past Friday was a pretty big one for fans of Daybreak Games' staple of MMORPGs, as several members of the various sub-studios under...
Eterspire applies revamps to the Firefly Forest zone and shares a third quarter content roadmap
The last time we peeked in on the indie mobile MMORPG Eterspire, it was in the process of revamping its early game's progression. The...
Destiny 2’s August patch seeks to address Crucible problems and the ‘epidemic’ of PvP quitters
If you're a PvP player of Destiny 2, then this week's newsletter is almost exclusively for you, as Bungie's PvP strike team is checking...
EVE Online details plans to adjust Equinox’s sovereignty, Zarzakh, dailies, and ship skin tool
Now that the Equinox update of EVE Online has been out in the wild for just over a month, CCP Games is prepared to...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s August is leaning into Adventure
I must admit that Pokemon Go's traditional Adventure Week events have historically been a minor hit with me as they feature the fossil 'mon...
Cozy MMO Palia teases nameplates, house tours, and a greenhouse in next week’s beta update
Fresh off its acquisition by no less than MMORPG company Daybreak, Singularity 6's still-in-beta cozy MMO Palia is teasing a bunch of new content...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.24 personal hangars aren’t quite housing, but it’s a start
Sure, Star Citizen has showcased cargo and freight gameplay coming in alpha 3.24 already, but who's stopping it from doing so a second time?...
Final Fantasy XIV shares insight into the singer behind the Arcadion’s final fight song
It's hard to miss the fact that the Arcadion raid series in Final Fantasy XIV features bespoke tracks for each of the raid's four...
Old School RuneScape share game client update progress, makes more tweaks to Deadman and Guthrix
Jagex is continuing to work on improving the client for Old School RuneScape, though it has been some time since the studio checked in...
Sea of Thieves Season 13 adds a world event-sized ship for players to capture and new gameplay elements
Today is the day when Sea of Thieves players can become the world event - and possibly have everyone's guns trained on them in...
Global Chat: Looking back at 15 years of World of Warcraft blogging
Fifteen years is a huge chunk of time to devote to both a video game and an ongoing blog covering it, but that's exactly...
Vague Patch Notes: Everything in an MMORPG is time-limited
Today, I want to talk to you about an event that you can no longer participate in within Final Fantasy XIV. It's an event...
World of Warcraft’s pre-patch for The War Within disables both warbanks and cross-realm trading because of bugs
If you look at the pre-expansion patch World of Warcraft delivers ahead of expansions as a dry run of the expansion itself, The War...
Black Desert readies new Dosa skills on PC, adds alpaca mounts on console, changes item acquisition on mobile
It's time for another week of updates to Black Desert, and this week we're going to begin with the console version's patch, primarily because...