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The MOP Up: Aion reworks sieges, raids, and world bosses
NCsoft brought a sweeping raft of changes to many group activities in Aion this past week: "We are excited to reveal that we have...
Black Desert Mobile merges all of its servers down to one shard per region
It may be fall, but Black Desert Mobile is doing some serious spring cleaning with its servers this week. The mobile version of the...
Pearl Abyss Q3 2024: Black Desert declines, EVE Online flattens, Crimson Desert dithers
Pearl Abyss - minus Pearl Abyss America head Jeonghee Jin, who left for NCsoft America this past summer - released its Q3 2024 financials...
Black Desert improves accessory enhancement and monster zones on PC, previews a costume extraction feature on console
While the mobile version of Black Desert got top billing thanks to some major updates, this week is not without news from the PC...
Crimson Desert unveils a fight against Black Desert’s Hexe Marie in its new G-STAR playable demo
First off: No, we still don't know whether the current version of Crimson Desert has retained any of its originally planned multiplayer features, nor...
Black Desert Mobile unleashes the Kurenai class today, dates its Calpheon Ball for December 15
Black Desert Mobile has got a whole lot of news pouring out of it today. Whether it's the newly released patch that introduces a...
Black Desert opens a season server on mobile, adds new accessories to PC, buffs the Halloween boss on console
It's another week of things and stuff for Black Desert's three editions, and once more we're starting off with BDO Mobile as the headliner...
Black Desert adds Halloween events to mobile, a spooky boss fight on console, and class updates to PC
The spookytimes are continuing to spread across Black Desert as both BDO Console and BDO Mobile players can enjoy their seasonal fun in this...
Perfect Ten: 2024’s MMO soundtrack themes ranked from worst to best
Try not to whip your head around all suspicious-like to check out the past 10 months, but 2024 has been a bonanza for MMO...
Black Desert brings Halloween to PC, gives console players a guild manor, opens a guild promo chat on mobile
This week is once more full of goodies for Black Desert players of all stripes and platforms, with new events starting on PC, the...
Four Winds: Looking back at the early Throne and Liberty journey from the vantage of endgame
In the last edition of Four Winds, I found myself cautiously enjoying Throne and Liberty. The game had its hooks in me. I found an engaging game...
Black Desert Mobile introduces the upcoming Awakened Kunoichi, new season server, and revamped main quest
There will be some pretty big things making their way to Black Desert Mobile in a couple of weeks' time as Pearl Abyss has...
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
Black Desert PC introduces the element-wielding Awakened Dosa in latest update
Sure, being able to magically weave fog is pretty cool, but what if you could weave five elements alternately in a fight? That's the...
Black Desert launches Guild League PvP skirmish on mobile, previews the October 8 Dosa Awakening for PC
Black Desert has more than just a big drop for console players this week, as the mobile version of the sandbox MMO has gotten...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest personal challenge you’ve set for yourself in an MMO?
A few weeks back, I saw a post on Reddit about an MMO player who had decided to set himself a bizarre project: to...
Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
Black Desert Console releases the Dosa class and opens a season server with massive level boosts
At long last, players of Black Desert on console are getting more than a pet event and a video that vaguely promises improvements. The...
Four Winds: Throne & Liberty’s opening hours were fun AF, but I’m still on my guard
After what feels like an absolute eternity, Throne and Liberty is finally here. In my younger, less jaded years, I'd feel excited and elated...
Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?
Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
