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Osiris New Dawn CEO to community grumping: ‘I will take these lashings and learn from them’
Fenix Fire CEO Brian McRae is "not having fun either," according to his latest dev blog on the Osiris: New Dawn Steam page. His...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s 5.3 is live today with Sisters of Carnage, class updates, and new housing
Star Wars: The Old Republic's 5.3 patch is rolling out today, bringing with it the new underwater Manaan Stronghold home, the Sisters of Carnage...
Wisdom of Nym: Diving into Omega in Final Fantasy XIV
It's kind of ironic that Omega may be the first time in Final Fantasy XIV where the eponymous foe is our actual antagonist. The...
RIFT opens up patch 4.2 on the test servers
The 4.2 patch for RIFT (Celestial Storm if you're on a first-name basis with patches) is heading to the live servers on July 19th....
The Daily Grind: How do you solve a problem like Maria (in MMOs)?
OK, so there's no Maria, but I'm pretty sure everyone has that one guildie who is basically a goofball, screw-around, flibbertigibbet Leeroy. And yes...
TennoCon 2017: Warframe’s Plains of Eidolon is the first step toward a true MMORPG
Do you think you know what Warframe is? Can you define the game? Well toss that out the window because the new expansion is going...
TERA launches Dragonsire’s Revenge on July 11
The Dragonsire is out for revenge! What does he want revenge for? Unfair parking tickets! Oh, and the fact that the gods did try...
SWTOR teases next week’s raid bosses, seeks Galactic Starfighter feedback
Next week on July 11th, Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to unleash carnage with Update 5.3. The summer content patch will  change up...
Datamining generates World of Warcraft expansion rumors
Players have datamined a bit out of World of Warcraft's most recent test realm patch that hints at the destination of the next expansion, with...
Secret World Legends posts roadmap for the next year
Funcom is making good on its promise to post a development roadmap for Secret World Legends, as it just put up the schedule of...
Pokemon Go’s first anniversary report card
July 6th, 2017, marks Pokemon Go's first year anniversary. Love it or hate it, it's a game that quickly made a global impact. It's been released...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s mid-term report card
At the beginning of every year, I give the games that I am embedded in a letter grade centered around the four different player...
GTA Online’s Independence Day content is absurdly awesome
Nothing says Independence Day like gang warfare in the streets of Los Santos using guns painted like flags, am I right? Yep, Rockstar is...
Crossout hits 3M players, bans almost 1K of them for cheating
Things are cruising along rather well for the post-apocalyptic death car MMO Crossout, as the team reported late last week that the game had...
Global Chat: Want to see a Magic trick?
So what does the blogging community think of the first IP-related new MMORPG to be announced in years in Magic: The Gathering? It's a little...
The Daily Grind: What kind of MMO achiever are you?
Yesterday's post on Richard Bartle's new unplayer matrix got me thinking once again about my quibbles with the original Bartle quotient, which won't surprise...
LOTRO Legendarium: Simply walking into Mordor
It has been a whirlwind week of news and reveals for Lord of the Rings Online players. Standing Stone Games finally pulled back the...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
RIFT makes Prophecy of Ahnket free forever, preps a Celestial Storm for July 19
Trion World's experiment this past spring with making RIFT's newest expansion free for a limited time is now becoming a permanent fixture. The studio...
World of Warcraft starts testing Argus and Patch 7.3
While the World of Warcraft raiding community soldiers on through the new Tomb of Sargeras and everyone else curses their luck at legendary item...