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Tencent’s MMORPG Tarisland is officially live in the west today with Season 0: Mystery of the Hollows
Don't get too excited: While Tencent announced in Discord this morning that its free-to-play not-a-WoW-clone MMORPG Tarisland is live "with servers opening across regions,"...
Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs
A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas and Morgan Day talk about raid difficulty and defensive balance
The time-honored practice of World of Warcraft releasing a new raid tuned to challenge people racing to clear it first and then steadily making...
EverQuest makes its nearly three year-old Terror of Luclin expansion free for everyone
When is something old new again? When it's handed out for free, of course. Those who didn't bother to buy in to EverQuest's Terror...
Wayfinder’s new AMA covers monetization, 1.0 content, and reception to Echoes
Now that Wayfinder's Echoes update is live with its new optional offline mode, the folks at Airship Syndicate have sat themselves down to talk...
Predownloading for Tencent’s Tarisland begins tonight for North and South American players
If you're looking forward to the launch of Tarisland as we - and some of our readers - are, then heads-up because Tarisland is...
Lost Ark’s Summer Heat is live, daring players to confront Echidna in the latest endgame raid
Lost Ark's Summer Heat update couldn't be more appropriate where I am right now under the heat dome in the Northeast US, but fortunately...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17
Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...
Wisdom of Nym: Musings on Final Fantasy XIV’s last live letter before Dawntrail
If you couldn't watch the live letter because you were too anxious, well, I don't know how you live your life, but also I...
The MOP Up: Temtem goes neon as it spins down development
Temtem's Patch 1.7 arrived with the start of its Neon Reverie season, the game's last as development starts to spin down: "To close it...
Lost Ark’s roadmap heralds dungeon and raid solo mode, T4, and the North Kurzan continent
Lost Ark's really been churning out the content previews this week; just yesterday, Amazon's video on the June content blast was making apologies for...
Fight or Kite: 33 Immortals continues the trend of pseudo-MMO gaming
Even given the general pullback in the games industry from using the term MMO, I sure am noticing a bunch of other games that...
WoW Classic promises new runes, boss changes, and Molten Core for Season of Discovery’s Phase 4
Even though WoW Classic's fourth phase for its Season of Discovery has been delayed in order to let the other variants of the MMORPG...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with New World’s controversial Aeternum reboot, which is still an MMORPG
How's everyone recovering from all this New World Aeternum news coming out of Summer Games Fest? It's been kind of a confusing time for me, as...
SGF 2024: Amazon discusses New World Aeternum on console, swimming, solo content, and archetypes
In case there's anyone out there still confused: New World Aeternum is not a single player or co-op game. I know the Summer Game Fest announcement of...
Lost Ark previews its Summer Heat raid-centric update, says to expect a slower content cadence this summer
As teased, Smilegate and Amazon have indeed given more info on Lost Ark's Summer Heat update, which launches next week on June 19th with...
New World’s new Q&A struggles to explain why a massively multiplayer online RPG isn’t an MMORPG
Amazon's New World Aeternum announcement last Friday did not go to plan, unless getting reviewbombed to oblivion by PC players and confusing mainstream gaming...
The Stream Team: Hopping into the multiplayer raid roguelike of Rabbit & Steel
MOP's Chris is hopping mad for raid content! But not just any raid content; it's the raid content that covers the entirety of the...
Lost Ark promises details for western summer content soon, teases a June 19 update that’s full of dragons
Lost Ark fans are once more being reminded that the Korean MMOARPG released in Korea first, meaning that there's some time to wait between...
Embers Adrift is about halfway through its 2024 roadmap so far
Embers Adrift is riding high on the achievements of its late May content update, which added the mail system, five more quests, two dungeons,...
