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Shroud of the Avatar’s upcoming R54 includes new house deco, heraldry items, and lots of polish
MMOs dressing us as murderhobos wouldn't be so bad if we were super stylish murderhobos, right? Shroud of the Avatar plainly agrees, which is...
Legion: The Eternal War’s evil magic pits Elves against Humans
Here's an indie MMORPG that you may not have known about before this week. Legion: The Eternal War is a small title that's been...
WildStar’s residential renovation event returns
WildStar's residential renovation event, first introduced back in summer 2017, is making a return for another short-lived run. Considering how many players feel that...
Villagers and Heroes throws an open house with its Wellspring content update
A year or so ago, Villagers and Heroes actually didn't have player housing that you could enter and enjoy. That changed, and with this...
Chaos Theory: A changing of the guard in the Secret World Legends
As a fan of the wonderful world that Secret World brought us, do you cringe or grin with excitement when Secret World Legends news...
Returning to Conan Exiles: Praise for Funcom’s progress on PvE and PvP
As some of you may remember, I wasn't terribly impressed with Conan Exiles when it first went into Early Access last year. It wasn't exactly that...
You can invite people into your house with Closers’ Renovation update next week
Renovation sounds like what I'm currently doing to my basement, but it's also the name of Closers' upcoming patch, due out next week, and...
Wisdom of Nym: Little boosts for Final Fantasy XIV
When I talk about games that provide a whole lot of quality-of-life fixes, I generally point to Final Fantasy XIV as a perfect example....
Final Fantasy XIV previews the Ridorana Lighthouse of patch 4.3
South of Rabanastre, there is a lighthouse. It's not a very good lighthouse, because it's surrounded by a yawning chasm that gets worse every...
Project Gorgon explains why its appeal isn’t merely nostalgia-related
Project Gorgon, the scrappy indie MMO that recently went into Steam early access, hosted an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit to talk about...
The Daily Grind: What keeps you logging into MMORPGs over a long period of time?
Earlier this month, Pantheon's community team tweeted out a question that keeps coming back to me: "What motivates you to play an MMORPG for...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
Villagers & Heroes adds in new village options with the Wellspring expansion on May 14
The heart of gameplay in cross-platform MMORPGÂ Villagers & Heroes is all about villages, so anything that expands your options for villages is going to...
Lord of the Rings Online talks Update 23, Mordor’s difficulty, lag, and more
Now that Lord of the Rings Online has emerged from Mordor, it's preparing to go back in the future. SSG's Rob Ciccolini and Jerry...
Elder Scrolls Online begins testing Summerset; here’s a look at the chapter’s houses and buyables
As all eyes in Elder Scrolls Online turn to the future expansion heading to the game next month, testing has begun in earnest on...
MapleStory 2 unveils North American website, closed beta starts next month
It seems like a no-brainer to bring the sequel to the popular MapleStory westward. And yet we've been waiting for a while now to...
Crowfall details the mechanics of building within its eternal kingdoms
If you're going to share a plot of land with other people in Crowfall, you need to understand what that sharing will entail. If...
The Black Death overhauls building, introduces guild systems, and wipes all the things
The Black Death is taking no prisoners with its latest patch, V.026. Also called Dominion, the huge content update makes some rather sweeping changes...
Ultima Online’s F2P conversion, Endless Journey, is officially live with new ‘deluxe starter pack’
At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play.
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Ultima Online is officially going free-to-play on Thursday, outlaws multiboxing
If you didn't already know that Ultima Online is planning to go free-to-play, you probably still wouldn't be able to tell without reading between...