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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight gets a November 28 release date
Here we go: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has a release date scheduled, and it's soon. Not "next week" soon, no, but "put in your...
Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs
Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...
World of Warcraft outlines mandatory group loot and new special items dropping from raid bosses in Dragonflight
Don't you love all of the drama and debating that can happen in a World of Warcraft raid when that raid uses group loot...
Lost Ark welcomes the Machinist class and new raid following server merges
Who's feeling like playing some Iron Man in an MMORPG? Lost Ark is giving you the opportunity to, ah, avenge yourself on some mobs...
Perfect Ten: 10 Final Fantasy XIV musical tracks that absolutely slap
Everyone knows that people who play Final Fantasy XIV will not shut up about the game's music. This includes me. I will not shut...
Massively on the Go: October brings new treats to Pokemon Go
Pokemon GO's Season of Light continues into October, and while a lot of the announced content looks as familiar as that candy corn you...
Here’s what to expect from Lost Ark’s September update, launching tomorrow
Lost Ark players, you've got 16 hours of downtime to burn before the MMOARPG's next update. What do you do with that time? Maybe...
Choose My Adventure: Temtem is just not for me
I'll open with a little personal opinion: I've never liked the baseline Pokemon games. It never appealed to me when it first released, the...
Casually Classic: The Death Knight starter experience is still the best WoW ever did
Recently, along with what seemed like half the population of the globe, I rolled up a brand-new Death Knight in WoW Classic to take...
Lost Ark plans 16 hours of downtime for its merging servers tomorrow
At the top of September, Amazon announced that it would be merging some of Lost Ark's servers and even began patching the infrastructure to...
The Stream Team: Roaming around AQ3D’s Red Monastery and the Crypts of Misery
Last week, Massively OP's MJ started the raid on AQ3D's Red Monastery in the Nulgath Saga Part II. There, she listened to the confessions...
Lord of the Rings Online details Before the Shadow’s challenge-raising delving system
High risk, high reward, or to paraphrase the IP, delving too greedily and too deeply. That's the line players will have to toe when...
WoW Factor: Just be honest about what WoW Classic is now
So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...
World of Warcraft is adding Heroic Plus dungeons to Wrath of the Lich King Classic when Ulduar arrives
If part of what you like about WoW Classic instead of World of Warcraft's retail side is that the upcoming Wrath of the Lich...
ArcheAge adds new seasonal reward track, runs a defense raid event
Kakao pushed out kitchen sink-style patches for the two versions of ArcheAge this week. Both received roughly the same adjustments, as the studio is...
RuneScape outlines content plans for 2022 and 2023, Old School RuneScape continues tuning its raid
RuneScape promised to outline plans for its next series of updates in its weekly newsletter, and sure enough it delivered. The devs at Jagex...
The Stream Team: Clearing squatters from a Guild Wars 2 guild hall
It turns out that a bunch of Purist squatters have settled in the Canthan guild hall area in Guild Wars 2. Those traitors must...
Wisdom of Nym: Where Final Fantasy XIV’s tutorials really fall down
I don't think there's really a question to be asked about whether or not Final Fantasy XIV wants new players to join the game....
Elder Scrolls Online’s Firesong DLC and Update 36 arrive on PC November 1
We all know that Elder Scrolls Online is getting a new DLC release and new update by now, and most regular fans of the...
The MOP Up: Valheim comes to Microsoft’s store this month
That kooky Norse survival sim Valheim is sending a raiding party to new shores -- in this case, to Microsoft itself. The company announced...