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WoW Classic’s hardcore realms claim over 90K character lives in the first day
With an overhaul to its PvP honor system and the launch of the official hardcore realms, WoW Classic surged into the spotlight this past...
WoW Classic’s hardcore realms officially open tonight at 6 p.m. EDT – are you prepared?
World of Warcraft Classic fans best be readying their death shrouds because the hardcore realms officially open tonight at 6 p.m., meaning you barely...
The Stream Team: Checking out Astroneer’s custom game mode
The adorable fun of Astroneer with custom game modes? Heck yeah! Massively OP's MJ is pretty excited about the recent big update that introduced...
Multiplayer space sandbox Astroneer introduces custom game mode tools
As of Astroneer's update last week, players can finally build their own games just the way they want, thanks to the new custom games...
WoW Classic tests permadeath realms, indicates Classic Hardcore is coming ‘later this summer’
Things are ramping up for the launch of World of Warcraft Classic's hardcore realms in a month or so. Now that Blizzard has confirmed...
Massively Overthinking: When an MMO has everything and so much of it
Last week, when No Man's Sky released its native Mac client, MOP's Chris and I fell into a discussion about the game being so...
Dungeons and Dragons Online kicks off its eighth hardcore season
"Permadeath" isn't a dirty word when it's said under the right conditions. And for a while now, those conditions have been present in Dungeons...
Casually Classic: Six problems Blizzard has to solve for WoW Classic’s official hardcore mode
Hey, look at that: Blizzard's going and making Hardcore Classic an official thing. As well it should, considering how this community-driven ruleset's been the...
Blizzard is finally working on an official hardcore mode for WoW Classic
There are plenty of examples of MMORPG fans coming up with new and innovative ways to enjoy their favorite games, and one such example...
Dungeons and Dragons Online creates a memorial for a late developer, preps the next hardcore season
Tucked into the patch notes for Dungeons and Dragons Online's Update 59.1 this week are a few items of importance.
For starters, Standing Stone Games...
Casually Classic: 20 tips for surviving the WoW Classic community’s hardcore mode
"Just one more hour of WoW Classic. One more hour, then I'll go and play something serious. Or be a productive member of society....
Casually Classic: How permadeath runs are revitalizing WoW Classic
While I don't have any hard data on the subject, just observing the World of Warcraft Classic scene (and ABK's financials) over the past...
WoW Classic’s permadeath community may be prompting Blizzard to create a new ruleset
While the thrill and buzz around WoW Classic has fallen off sharply in the past half-year, there's a segment that's actually on the rise...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v6.0
And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...
Dungeons and Dragons Online kicks off Festivult and Hardcore Season 7
When you combine two things into a new package, something special may happen. You could end up with peanut butter and chocolate, for example....
The Game Archaeologist: Wizardry Online, the short-lived permadeath MMO
While the Wizardry series may not have the cultural cache that Ultima or Final Fantasy ended up with, nevertheless the dungeon crawling RPG series...
No Man’s Sky adds redux expeditions and a laundry list of bug fixes to the Steam experimental branch
What's coming next to No Man's Sky? A whole lot of bug fixing if the experimental branch build that went live yesterday is any...
Dungeons and Dragons Online previews Update 57, ends sixth hardcore season
Think you've seen and mastered every quest in Dungeons and Dragons Online? That will no longer be the case when Update 57: Grip of...
Book of Travels eyes price increase, newbie hand-holding, and targeted DLC
Book of Travels just marked its first anniversary from its October 2021 early access launch, you might be surprised to realize. The "micro-MMO" initially...
Retro-styled roguelike MMO Mythic releases on September 29
We've been keeping tabs on Mythic for the past few months now. Readers will remember the pixel-art roguelike MMO from Abyssal Studios LLC. first...
