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LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s new Mariner class is the swashbuckler we needed
A new class added to any MMORPG is bound to raise excitement and anxiety among fans, especially when they try to feel out whether...
Lord of the Rings Online readies a plus-sized pirate event for September with new stories and missions
Tuesday, September 19th is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a cheeky internet holiday that's served as an inspiration for Lord of the...
Skull and Bones loses yet another creative director as union assembles over labor conditions
With Skull and Bones now in closed beta testing after a half dozen significant delays, it's smooth sailing ahead for this frequently delayed pirate...
PSA: PlayStation Plus subscribers can nab a free copy of Black Desert’s traveler edition starting today
Looking for a new MMORPG to play on your PlayStation console? Are you a subscriber to the PlayStation Plus service? Then you're being directly...
Sea monsters feasted well on 810 delicious pirate players during Skull and Bones’ brief CBT
Ubisoft's Skull and Bones closed beta was over almost as soon as it began, but those few players who got a sneak peek apparently...
The Stream Team: Escape from Alcatraz – er, Amenos – in Elder Scrolls Online
Although Massively OP's MJ finished up the main story that sent her to on High Isles' Amenos in Elder Scrolls Online, she's not ready...
Sea of Thieves announces dates for its next Monkey Island Tall Tale and a Legends Week event
The latest news digest video from Sea of Thieves has dropped a couple of noteworthy dates for players of the seafaring sandbox, particularly those...
The MOP Up: RuneScape’s community is ‘smashing’ that Necromancy skill
Jagex said that Necromancy has proven to be a huge hit in RuneScape, with the community taking to this new skill line like a...
After six delays in its long development, Skull and Bones has finally entered closed beta
It's been an extremely long time coming, but Ubisoft's Skull and Bones is finally entering closed beta. The pirate multiplayer title we first demo'd...
No Man’s Sky’s 4.4 Echoes release is live – meet your new space robot friends
Hello Games has been dropping little teases all week, so the fact that a new No Man's Sky update has officially arrived this morning...
Preloading has begun for tomorrow’s Skull and Bones closed beta test run
Skull and Bones is setting sale for beta this week - closed beta, that is, which means you're playing only if you got an...
EVE Online invites capusuleers to its revived Arc event, Operation Epiphany
CCP Games isn't aiming to let up on the EVE Online content cadence that helped propel the 20-year-old MMO to one of its strongest...
Pirates Online rogue server operators open an archive that preserves assets from Pirates of the Caribbean Online
The history of Pirates of the Caribbean Online is one that's about as unique as making an entire MMO out of a Disney theme...
Skull & Bones previews its crafting system ahead of next week’s closed beta test
Had you forgotten about Skull and Bones? Ubisoft means to rectify that if so with a new dev blog on the long-delayed multiplayer pirate...
Pirate101 unleashes a broadside of quality-of-life improvements including UI scaling and fast travel
Rub the sleep from your eyes and put on your most fashionable hook-hand, because Pirate101 just got boarded by a raft of quality-of-life improvements....
Pirates of the Burning Sea improves visuals, tweaks gameplay, and brings back a server from the brink
The player-run Vision Online Games studio that's kept Pirates of the Burning Sea afloat since its near-sunset back in 2019 continues to be hard...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV will have to dig deeply for future jobs
Anyone who has read my columns for a long while knows that I put my predictions front and center and both admit when I'm...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Las Vegas: What new jobs are hinted at by Yoshida’s shirt?
At this point, Final Fantasy XIV fans have spent a decade now reading a whole lot into the shirts worn by producer and director...
Plunder Scourge of the Sea is a pirate-themed open world survival MMO
It would be easy to dismiss this latest in-development indie MMO as "Atlas at home," but we'll try not to be reductive to either...
KingsIsle highlights Pirate101 challenges, confirms Wizard101 test realm, and preps esports tourney
It's newsletter time for KingsIsle MMORPGs Pirate101 and Wizard101, and while both have vastly different highlights, one thing is shared between them: the upcoming...