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The Daily Grind: Which MMO castle impresses you the most?
The beginning, middle, and end of my castle fixation was playing with LEGO Castle sets as a kid. There's nothing quite so fun to...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s week of bad decisions
First of all, before you clever clogs start in down in the comments, yes, I realize that almost any given week in World of...
Massively on the Go: Jurassic World Alive plods on five years later, encumbered by over-monetization
Ludia's Jurassic World Alive is still stomping along. It's gotten some features over the years that seem, well, "borrowed" from that Pokemon GPS game, but yeesh,...
Funcom belatedly remembers Age of Conan’s 15th birthday with dev blog and event
Yesterday, we cheekily pointed out that Funcom appeared to have forgotten Age of Conan's 15th birthday back on the 20th of May, in spite...
World of Warcraft’s wrapup quest for patch 10.1 requires killing the last boss of the raid to advance
The final story campaign quest for World of Warcraft's patch 10.1 requires killing the final boss of Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. This is not...
New World announces second season, Blood of the Sands, launching July 6
Amazon just announced New World's second season, dubbed Blood of the Sands and due out on July 6 with a rather DUNE-like theme, right...
Conan Exiles announces June 22 Age of War as Age of Conan’s 15th anniversary slips by in silence
Funcom may have let Saturday's 15th birthday of Age of Conan slip by unheralded and unremarked, but it did take the moment to announce...
Sci-fi shooter ARC Raiders expands its scope and genre to include survival-style PvPvE
If you heard the initial announcement of ARC Raiders back in 2021 and quickly dismissed the game for being nothing more than a PvP...
Wisdom of Nym: Top takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s The Dark Throne patch notes
I have to say that whole "preliminary" patch notes thing that Final Fantasy XIV has been pulling for years now has begun to wear...
The Soapbox: Raiding isn’t the problem with World of Warcraft
It is by now clear that World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion hasn't exactly set the world on fire. This has set off another round...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
Aion Classic is granting sub benefits to North American players for a whole month
Aion Classic is having a bit of a moment this spring. It finally launched for European players, and then the North American branch launched...
WoW Factor: Tarisland and the cargo cult of World of Warcraft
We've all made jokes about Tarisland being "we have World of Warcraft at home." That's just a fun thing to make jokes about, and...
Mad World’s Steam version is still MIA while an exploit in latest patch requires a three-hour rollback
It's time once again to see how things are going with the hell-made Mad World, and we're sorry to report that things are still...
Lord of the Rings Online promises that it’s ‘not going away’ after Amazon MMO announcement
As exciting it's been to hear that Amazon is working on a Middle-earth MMO again, some Lord of the Rings Online fans expressed concern...
Casually Classic: Six problems Blizzard has to solve for WoW Classic’s official hardcore mode
Hey, look at that: Blizzard's going and making Hardcore Classic an official thing. As well it should, considering how this community-driven ruleset's been the...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet brings paradox elephants across worlds
There are apparently still more 'mon to be had in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. We're a bit late with Chestnaught, but it'll be returning...
Tencent’s Tarisland offers a global release window of later this year and a new CG hype trailer
When NetEase and Blizzard had their messy breakup that ultimately lead to World of Warcraft being pulled from China, Tencent swooped in with an...
Mad World promises ‘new beginning’ with better stability, gameplay tweaks, and ‘less mad’ management
It is now very clear that Mad World's takeoff has been less than good, as developer Jandisoft has been hammering in multiple patches to...
Design Mockument: Let’s bring back WildStar, only good this time
The other night, a couple of us were talking in work chat about missing WildStar. I also miss WildStar... or more accurately, I miss...
