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Choose My Adventure: Space combat is yet another vast and interesting layer to Star Wars Galaxies
What even is this game? This is a question I seem to be asking myself a lot as I continue to scrape at the...
New World unveils player housing system in goofy HGTV-esque video
Someone somewhere in Amazon Games greenlit the pitch of making a video series set in New World that follows an in-game couple going house...
Choose My Adventure: The long road to starting a Star Wars Galaxies crafting empire
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will Wolfy Starflight Concern. The time I spent this week on the Legends rogue server of...
MMO Business Roundup: EA’s executive compensation, Facebook’s Oculus shenanigans, KRAFTON’s IPO
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Electronic Arts is still awful: Remember how EA shareholders voted against its compensation...
WoW Factor: Would you like to take a survey?
All right. Yes, I know that World of Warcraft is finally releasing its first major patch for Shadowlands on June 29th. That's a thing...
NCsoft acknowledges pay-to-win uproar in Aion Classic, doesn’t believe candy is an exploit
Aion's forums are absolutely raging about the Daeva pass and its candy problem afflicting Aion Classic, as we noted yesterday. NCsoft hasn't directly addressed...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning begins its Ranked Season 2 next week
Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning rogue server has been teasing its second ranked season over the last few weeks, and now it's almost here....
Choose My Adventure: Awestruck by Star Wars Galaxies’ crafting and housing potential
This week has been something of a rollercoaster for me. Of emotions. Of discovery. And, slowly yet surely, of deeper appreciation and enjoyment of...
A slim majority of Acti-Blizz investors approved its ‘say-on-pay’ policy after vote extension
Score another win for the C-suite.
As we've been covering, Activision-Blizzard investors purportedly represented by CtW Investment Group had been agitating to vote down the...
EVE Online brings its stealth ship-centric Enter the Portal update online
If you were in the PTS of EVE Online, you already knew about the Enter the Portal update and what it was doing for...
Choose My Adventure: Dipping a toe in the vast ocean of Star Wars Galaxies crafting and gathering
"Crafting in Star Wars Galaxies was the greatest thing ever in MMORPGs."
How often have you read a comment like that? I know I've seen...
Activision-Blizzard extends contentious shareholder vote on executive pay
MMO readers will recall that earlier this year, the industry erupted over a public relations fiasco Activision-Blizzard failed to adequately counter: In the midst...
E3 2021: Phantasy Star Online 2 releases a live action trailer for New Genesis
I always feel that it's a weird vote of confidence when a video game studio puts out a trailer for a game using live...
EVE Online adds mobile observatories and begins CSM 16 voting, EVE Echoes launches exploration
Things are happening in EVE Online. To be fair, things are always happening in EVE Online, but there's some specifically new things happening, starting...
Choose My Adventure: Star Wars Galaxies’ legacy questline is so boring
Level 22. That was the arbitrary block between me and wearing armor in Star Wars Galaxies. Not level 10. Not level 15. Not level...
Phantasy Star Online 2 shares game features, closed beta survey results, and boost item handouts for New Genesis
Tomorrow is the official launch of Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis and the devs of the MMO are gearing up with a whole...
Choose My Adventure: The slow setup for adventure in Star Wars Galaxies Legends
This week's Choose My Adventure probably had more preliminary preparation than any other game I've had. Most of the time I tend to fly...
The Soapbox: Reconsidering social media as an MMORPG
At GDC 2011, Raph Koster gave a talk in which he said, "Games are fundamentally social media and always have been." You can watch...
Choose My Adventure: Getting straight through the Riena Strait in MapleStory
I've got to admit, I'm very glad to see this one behind me, and that kind of makes me sad. MapleStory should have had...
The MOP Up: World of Warships opens a book of German mythology
Weird things are afoot in World of Warships, with a German mythological event, more German destroyers, and reworked commander skills hitting the game world!
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