pirates
Over 2M gamers fought Skull & Bones’ season 2 big boss duo
The third season for multiplayer pirate-'em-up Skull & Bones isn't over yet, but even so Ubisoft Singapore is taking a moment to recount players'...
LOTRO’s September is full of pirates, birthdays, and treasure bugans
September marks a pretty packed month of events for Lord of the Rings Online, starting with this weekend's Treasure Bugan hunt. Through September 18th,...
The Stream Team: Friday the 13th in AQ3D includes a pirates vs. ninjas war
Friday the 13th is Massively OP's MJ's favorite day, and it is best spent in AQ3D! This time, besides some Shade fare, there's a...
Tarisland’s lore for Blight Dragon Elegy sure is something
As Tarisland marches onward toward the extremely Wrath of the Lich King-esque Blight Dragon Elegy and its first proper season, Tencent is continuing to...
Vitae Aeternum: New World Aeternum’s open beta build is actually pretty good – but will it be enough?
Starting this Friday, Amazon Games will be running an open beta test for New World's soft relaunch as Aeternum. Before then, the studio offered...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s unavailable NPC jobs
Something interesting is going to happen when Final Fantasy XIV adds Beastmaster to the game as a limited job. No matter what weapon the...
The Stream Team: Exploring the co-op RPG world of Cat Quest III
MOP's Chris and his friend are coming back once again to some more Cat Quest III together! They've learned how to steer a ship,...
Vitae Aeternum: Ranking New World’s zones by their player housing
As the interminable wait until October stretches on, New World players and New World bloggers alike search for ways to fill the time. One...
Skull & Bones arrives on Steam today as Season 3 Into the Dragon’s Wake goes live
Ubisoft is full-speed ahead with Skull and Bones' third season, which is officially live as of this afternoon. Dubbed Into the Dragon's Wake, the...
New World restarts its 34-episode Discovering Aeternum video series, running through December
If you've been buried in Gamescom news as we have been, you may also have missed that Amazon is rolling out a new video...
Skull and Bones’ Into the Dragon’s Wake kicks off a new season on August 22
Just when you finally got your pirate vessel fully insured, along comes a new ship and cannons to blow up your deductible. Yet look...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster on MMO trust, fear, and freedom: ‘We understand how nervous players are about griefing’
Regular MOP readers know that our commenters have already spilled a lot of ink about Raph Koster's in-development MMORPG Stars Reach - and he's...
Path of Exile’s Settlers of Kalguur tackles real-time mechanics with city building
The Grinding Gear rooster has crowed, signifying the dawn of a new expansion and league. And what might they be? Welcome to Path of...
Star Citizen showcases alpha 3.24’s Blockade Runner event and delayed cargo freight gameplay
Star Citizen looks to be spooling up its hype drives for the sci-fi sandbox's next alpha build, starting off with this week's Inside Star...
The Quinfall previews maritime activities and trading ahead of today’s second closed beta
You've signed up. You've been selected. You thought it was happening on June 22nd but that was delayed. Now the time is here, as...
Gamigo offloads Desert Operations and Wargame 1942 publishing to Fawkes with only two weeks’ notice on migrations
Remember back at the end of 2020, when Gamigo began rather obviously to divest itself of most of its publishing agreements and video games,...
Vitae Aeternum: A new theory on what went wrong with New World’s 2024 plans
The New World fanbase is still reeling from the fallout over the announcement of its soft relaunch on consoles as New World: Aeternum. Something...
Palia’s Bloomin’ Bounties patch gives players loot and cheevos for partying up
Against all odds, Palia and its slimmed-down development team are pushing forward to flesh out the cozy mini-MMO, as the Bloomin' Bounties patch rolls...
Bohemia’s multiplayer survival sandbox Ylands has officially landed on Switch for offline play
As we've been chronicling - and I might be a little obsessed with it now that I'm finally catching up on its existence, sorry...
Hearthstone brings class-switching mechanics, tasty drinks, and vacation stops with Perils in Paradise expansion
The summer vacation idea isn't only striking MMORPGs; it's also inspiring the digital card game Hearthstone, which just announced its upcoming Perils in Paradise...