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LOTRO Legendarium: Minas Morgul is off to a better start than Mordor
While we have known for a long while that this was coming, the official announcement of Lord of the Rings Online's 2019 expansion was...
Fallout 76 players have put a fellow player on trial for raiding
A dangerous raider has been captured after an assault on a raiding facility, which raises the question of what should be done with him....
Massively Overthinking: MMOs, challenge, and flow
A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...
Cyberpunk MMO Zenith just raised more than a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter
For the last many weeks, we've been covering the Kickstarter drive of Zenith, a cyberpunk MMO courting both PC and VR players. As of...
WoW Factor: No, Battle for Azeroth’s story hasn’t paid off by the end of the war campaign
You know, I honestly had expected to do something else for WoW Factor this week, and then I was reminded that the war campaign was...
World of Warcraft: Classic is successfully letting some players reconnect with old friends
This is just plain nice to see. Regardless of anything else going on in World of Warcraft: Classic, it's good to see people finding old...
Wisdom of Nym: The Final Fantasy XIV philosophy and why it matters
It's been a couple weeks since this one happened, and for that I somewhat apologize because there were more pressing issues to cover in...
Blizzard clarifies the policy on World of Warcraft exploits following the dungeon exploit in Classic
We know that Blizzard intends to punish players who exploited a bug to cause endless dungeon respawns in World of Warcraft: Classic. But as happens...
Blade & Soul’s Storm of Arrows update is now live – here’s the trailer!
The patch notes for today's update to Blade & Soul are online, and it's forecasting a rain storm. The kind you can't really bring...
World of Warcraft posts its patch notes for 8.2.5, somehow not titled the Rise of Bees
New models for Worgen and Goblins! New Party Sync features! The end of the War Campaign! And lest we forget, bees! Yes, World of Warcraft...
First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga prelude, Bound by Blood, now live
It was just two short weeks ago that ArenaNet invited its fans to Seattle for the announcement of the continuation of Guild Wars 2's...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.1 is on its way after the first live letter
We had a good string there of proper translations, didn't we? It was really nice to be able to tune in and just get...
Destiny 2 shares its Season of the Undying release calendar and plans to buff every weapon type in the game
Bungie's weekly report is once again all about Shadowkeep's looming arrival to Destiny 2, though this update has lots of details that may make...
DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today
Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...
Blade & Soul is splitting damage types and adding new bracelets with the Storm of Arrows update
The next update for Blade & Soul is dubbed Storm of Arrows and that sounds absolutely horrifying. You might say "it's just a little rain" if...
Working As Intended: What it means to be an MMORPG
I am amused and somewhat bewildered to admit that I have my very own pet troll. He follows me around on Reddit to hassle...
Japanese MMORPG Caravan Stories officially launches in North America today on PlayStation 4
It's a good day to be a PS4 owner, folks: Bread girl is about to become a reality in North America as Caravan Stories,...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen discusses crafting in its August developer roundtable
The one thing I like most about sandbox MMOs -- and the one thing that I'll probably end up doing if I find one...
Grab an Aura Kingdom gift bundle to celebrate the game’s new Eidolon
Just a few weeks ago, our very own MMO Cartographer took a cozy re-tour of Aura Kingdom, the cute 2013 free-to-play MMO from Aeria...
The Soapbox: There is no MMO that can fix a broken MMO community
We've heard again and again how the recently launched World of Warcraft: Classic was going to "fix" the MMO community by stripping away modern...