pirates
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...
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...
