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Lost Ark plots summer activities and easier low-tier progression in updates for July and August
As the summer season rolls forward over the next two months, Amazon Games is planning to provide a little help to Lost Ark players...
Aion EU adds amulets, Aion Classic EU grants a free bundle of goodies
While the launch of Aion Classic in Europe has received the most attention this past spring, it is prudent not to forget that regular...
Star Citizen runs down some of its upcoming new mission types and changes to ship trespassing
There was a time when most of the mission-based gameplay out of Star Citizen was focused on players answering others' beacons, but that was...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
Conan Exiles launches the first chunk of Age of War, kicks off week-long free-play
The first chapter of Conan Exiles' Age of War season has officially launched today with a new battle pass. Age of War is set...
Claws of Veeshan joins EverQuest’s free expansion roster
To the patient gamer who waits long enough, most everything becomes free. It's a hard but thrifty strategy for the budget-minded among us, and...
Blue Protocol JP celebrates 200K concurrency and 600K total players with in-game freebies
Despite the multiple problems that have beleaguered the MMORPG, Bandai Namco has noted the large number of Blue Protocol players who arrived to the...
Lost Ark’s new battle pass has launched a fancy dress and fluffy pets
The next battle pass coming to ARPG Lost Ark is both fancy and fluffy, and it's arrived to the game as of this morning with...
Elder Scrolls Online launches Necrom for console, patches companions on PC
Console players eager to return to Morrowind can do so today as the Necrom expanshapaign has fully launched for Elder Scrolls Online on Xbox...
New World talks up its largest instanced fight ever, the Elite Sandwurm Trial
Currently on the New World test server, players are putting the game's latest trial -- a 20-player fight against a massive sandwurm -- through...
The Daily Grind: What are the most common studio fibs we tolerate in the MMO genre?
Buried in the comments of a WoW Factor column a while back, MOP reader Nathan expressed skepticism over claims about being able to full...
EverQuest II adjusts ability procs, item effects, and various instances in its latest patch
Last week's EverQuest II patch is a big one for those who use items and abilities that engage when there's a damage proc. A...
Ethyrial Echoes of Yore merges servers, adjusts its three-month roadmap
It continues to be a perceptibly bad time in Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore, as the latest update has confirmed that there will be a...
Wisdom of Nym: Turning a critical eye toward Final Fantasy XIV’s Bozja
There's honestly not much for me to say about Eureka in Final Fantasy XIV. I can respect what it was trying to do, and...
Wrath Classic welcomes the Argent Tournament on June 20th
It's shaping up to be one of the biggest weeks for Wrath Classic since the expansion launched last year. On Tuesday, June 20th, the...
WoW Factor: Age vs. World of Warcraft vs. player retention
In my time, I have gone from being a young man to an old man on the interwebs. I have gone from being a...
World of Warcraft explores the design of Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible in a new video
If you're currently doing any sort of raiding in World of Warcraft, from pushing progression to slowly waiting out the drip-feed of the raid...
Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert’s Land of the Morning Light
Long-time Black Desert players know about a little town on the northwest corner of the map. It's the city of Port Ratt, and for...
Lost Ark’s Elgacia continent and latest abyssal dungeon arrive tomorrow with the June patch
We're just one day away from Lost Ark's June update, so naturally Amazon is pulling out all the stops on previewing the content -...
Not So Massively: Islands of Insight, Headbangers, 33 Immortals, & Baldur’s Gate 3
Hopefully you were outside touching grass this weekend and not glued to your computer screen, and if so, you missed a few new game...
