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Battle Bards Episode 233: Epic fight music
For Battle Bards’ penultimate episode, Syp and Syl explore some EPIC battle music across many MMOs. After all, if we’re going to go out...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV’s Allied Societies for Dawntrail
We've gone through a lot of different names for what are now being called Allied Societies in Final Fantasy XIV, but I think this...
The Stream Team: The Lost Armory of AQ3D’s Nulgath
It's a new week, you say? So new content in AQ3D? Yup! It may only be new Nulgath daily quests, but there are also...
Storyboard: Roleplaying in MMORPGs is much more common than you think
Back around the time when the game's first expansion was a going concern, there was a post on the World of Warcraft forums about...
Vague Patch Notes: The great content consumption problem in MMORPGs
A friend and I were talking about an MMORPG's content recently (it doesn't matter which one) and I was pointing out how that particular...
Stars Reach begins testing this weekend as Raph Koster talks playstyle and the anti-endgame
Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is continuing his weekly dev blogs about Stars Reach's intended audience this week - though he does say this one...
Lost Ark’s Calm Before the Storm update is live with Indigo Island content and bound gold
If you can't spend your August vacationing in the real world, Lost Ark invites you to Indigo Island in Arkesia, which is live today...
Dungeons and Dragons Online has just launched its ninth expansion, Myth Drannor
You antsy Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft players can settle down for a bit -- today is Dungeons and Dragons Online's time...
World of Warcraft talks up delves, raids, and dungeons in a new video about an endgame for everyone
While the latest video from World of Warcraft does not specifically use the term "raid or die," it seems very clear from the discussion...
The Daily Grind: If your MMO had difficulty modes, what mode would you play on?
A few weeks back, survival sandbox Enshrouded added a new update with multiple difficulty modes, including two hardcore ones, a normal one, a relaxed...
Zenith’s last big hurrah is in the making with Season 4: Golden Isles
Just because Zenith is transitioning into maintenance mode doesn't mean that the virtual reality MMO is without one final big trick up its sleeve....
Warframe of Mind: Partying like it’s 1999 at TennoCon 2024
TennoCon is always a hotbed of Warframe (and now Soulframe) reveals, from new frames and primes to skins to the next content drops. But...
WoW Factor: The black mark of World of Warcraft’s player economy
Sometimes, I like to play a little game with MOP's Bree. I say I like to because the game is "Give Bree An Aneurysm,"...
Albion Online’s first Paths to Glory patch fixes a multitude of Albion Journal issues
Albion Online hasn't had the most flawless post-Paths to Glory experience, as at the end of July, it was victimized by a series of...
Perfect Ten: 10 tabletop games based on World of Warcraft
So here's what inspired this particular article: I was thinking about board games based upon MMOs of various scales because the other day I...
Lost Ark’s style book and planned Echidna raid nerfs won’t make it into next week’s patch
Just a week after its summer-to-fall roadmap dropped, Amazon is tweaking Lost Ark's plans a pinch. The studio says that most of the content...
Choose My Adventure: Mission runs cap off a welcoming return to Elite Dangerous
What a difference a month makes. When I first started these series of Elite Dangerous posts for Choose My Adventure, I had gone into...
Design Mockument: How to make housing work in World of Warcraft
Since the launch of World of Warcraft, players have been waiting for and longing to have housing. It still has not happened. The reasons...
Tarisland adds damage and defense bonuses for bringing rookies to endgame content
Tarisland has been surprisingly quiet since its launch here in the west last month, with Tencent having focused on launch promotion and influencer showdowns....
Pokemon Go’s Meteorite make-up event goes non-Elite – a rare win for players
Remember that Pokemon Go Meteorite bait-and-switch we covered back in June? And that not only was there a communication issue but that it had...