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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
Editor's note: This column was originally published in August 2024, a full three months before we knew WoW is actually getting housing with the...
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...
Lost Ark’s August-through-November 2024 roadmap heralds new continent, T4, and bound gold
Lost Ark's third roadmap of the year has arrived as of this afternoon, heralding core new content and features coming to the game from...
Final Fantasy XIV adds in time-limited tomestone along with its new Savage raid tier
The time has come for Final Fantasy XIV players to start collecting time-limited tomes once again with the most recent patch, which adds Allagan...
Rumor: Blizzard’s new WoW Classic survey once more raises hopes for a Classic Plus launch
If you're anywhere even adjacent to the WoW Classic playerbase, then you've probably seen rumblings about a "Classic Plus survey" making the rounds in...
The Daily Grind: What life lesson did you learn from MMOs the hard way?
I know MMOs don't exist to teach us life lessons, but they definitely have the opportunity to do so, whether we want them to...
The MOP Up: Perfect World’s co-CEOs tap out
GamesIndustry is reporting that the two co-CEOs of Perfect World have been replaced as CEOs but remain as directors: "Perfect World CEO Xiao Hong...
The Stream Team: Closing out the final fight of Final Fantasy XIV’s Arcadion
Last week, MOP's Chris and his crew made it through the first three rounds of Final Fantasy XIV's recently added Arcadion raid series. Unfortunately,...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s August is leaning into Adventure
I must admit that Pokemon Go's traditional Adventure Week events have historically been a minor hit with me as they feature the fossil 'mon...
Final Fantasy XIV shares insight into the singer behind the Arcadion’s final fight song
It's hard to miss the fact that the Arcadion raid series in Final Fantasy XIV features bespoke tracks for each of the raid's four...
