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Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs
'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...
Star Wars The Old Republic shares its July event calendar and releases a bug fixing patch
What's happening in July in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Bounties! Nightlife! Swoop races! Pirates! That's the very basic rundown of events that has...
Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies
Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...
Sea of Thieves begins a new mystery for players, A Dark Deception, through July 6
You have to imagine that most pirate mysteries are mostly of the sort where the question is "why are we a hundred miles off...
Gaijin’s ‘aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water enters paid closed beta stage two early access
Way back in 2020, Gaijin announced a new MMO called Age of Water. It was under development by Three Wales Studio, and it was...
Skull & Bones will finally hit closed beta in August after at least half a dozen delays
It's looking like maybe Ubisoft's Skull & Bones' sixth delay might have been its last, as Ubisoft finally announced this afternoon at Ubisoft Forward...
Star Citizen recounts May’s dev progress on vehicles, Pyro, and new missions as its Pride Month contest returns
Cloud Imperium Games has once more put together its monthly development report for Star Citizen, which once again recounts May's granular development steps and...
Pride Month celebrations kick off in Second Life, Wizard101, Pirate101, and Sky Children of the Light
The celebration of Pride Month across the MMO universe continues on, and we're here to collect some of the various events that are being...
The Stream Team: Sailing in to Three-Barrel Cove in Dungeons and Dragons Online
MOP's Chris is continuing to feed his personal need for more Dungeons and Dragons Online! This time around, he'll be making his first foray...
Star Citizen takes a closer look at alpha 3.20’s Arena Commander updates
Star Citizen has already made it clear that alpha 3.20 will be mostly focused on updating the long-suffering Arena Commander module, and now devs...
Pirate101 launches on Steam today with the Sinbad Chapter 2 update
It's launch day for Pirate101! OK, not exactly. Pirate101 launched in 2012. But it's launching on Steam today, as KingsIsle brings the family-friendly pirate...
Pirate101 keeps up the hype for its May 31 Steam launch and Iron Lotus update
It wasn't too long ago that Pirate101 players were moving from worried to hopeful as the kid-friendly MMO seemed to be entering maintenance mode...
Sea of Thieves irons out gameplay wrinkles, adds new cosmetics, and collabs with a maritime museum
If you have fond memories of the time when the Pirates of the Caribbean movie collaborated with Sea of Thieves back in December 2021,...
Interview: KingsIsle talks Pirate101’s Steam launch, Sinbad Chapter 2, and the future of the game
KingsIsle's Pirate101 is having a bit of a renaissance right now. The high seas-themed sibling MMO to the popular kids game Wizard101 has two...
Wizard101 plows through a bayou while Pirate101 readies the deck for its Sinbad update
It's time for a pair of KingsIsle newsletters, so let's break them down to see what's contained inside! First up with Wizard101, the magical...
2012 KingsIsle MMO Pirate101 is finally heading to Steam later this month
All right, let's be real, if you're interested in Pirate101 you probably are already playing it and don't need the game to be on...
Sea of Thieves revamps Golden Sands outpost, adds helpful seagulls, and applies a long list of fixes
Nine times out of 10, seagulls aren't helpful; they're either being monstrous little bastards or harassing Yoda. Luckily in Sea of Thieves' latest update...
The Game Archaeologist: Pirates of the Caribbean Online
In 1967, Disneyland opened one of its most iconic attractions: a dark boat ride called Pirates of the Caribbean. A large fandom surrounding the...
Starborne Frontiers, downgraded from a persistent MMO, has soft-launched, but only on mobile
We were all pretty excited back in 2021 when Starborne Sovereign Space developer Solid Clouds announced a persistent MMORPG spinoff called Starborne Frontiers, bringing...
Sea of Thieves’ Season Nine arrives with world event rebalancing
Patch ho! The ninth season of Sea of Thieves has sailed into port, bringing a whole slew of changes and adjustments. These include easier-to-find...
