Lord of the Rings Online talks crafting, says Corsairs of Umbar pre-orders begin ‘real soon’
The latest Lord of the Rings Online developer livestream may have been mostly about the big crafting changes coming to the MMO this fall,...
Mortal Online 2’s Unreal Engine 5 update gets a release window of late October
Back in September of last year, Mortal Online 2 began hyping up its transition to Unreal Engine 5, with the transition heralded as a...
Datamining uncovers potential details about World of Warcraft’s next expansion
As BlizzCon inches ever closer, players of World of Warcraft continue to ponder where the MMORPG's next expansion is headed. Some of that pondering...
Dauntless details 2024’s return of targeted pursuit hunts and its in-development features
When we interviewed Dauntless product manager Jordan Power last week, one of the questions we asked was about whether targeted behemoth hunts would be...
Fall Guys developer Mediatonic ‘hit very hard’ by Epic Games’ mass-layoff – but not shuttered
Epic's mass-layoff of 830 workers (and offloading of 250 more to spun-out companies) yesterday may have been characterized by the company as largely outside...
Massively Overthinking: The impact of jump start servers in MMOs
With Chris' Choose My Adventure run on Lost Ark - specifically, on its jump-start servers - coming to a close, I thought it would...
RuneScape outlines initial plans to address its deeply unpopular Hero Pass monetization
The end of August saw Jagex elect to burn up some of the goodwill between itself and RuneScape players with the reveal of a...
Elder Scrolls Online says it won’t punish players using gifting to swap gold for crowns
At the top of the month, ZeniMax Online Studios annoyed Elder Scrolls Online players with a "pause" of in-game gifting, a decision it attributed...
Rumor: EA will stop supporting Wild Hearts just half a year after release
This past February saw Wild Hearts, a cross-platform multiplayer monster hunting game from developer Koei Tecmo and publisher Electronic Arts, make its debut to...
Marvel Heroes rogue servers are finally possible thanks to newly released emulator files
Many of our readers and writers deeply miss Marvel Heroes, the MMOARPG that managed to capture something special - and was unceremoniously closed thanks...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard of: Hawked, Glassbreakers, Jam Cloud 95, WorldShards
Welcome back to another quick run-down of some MMOs and multiplayer titles you've probably never heard of. If you have, then you get exactly...
Indie MMORPG Eterspire celebrates its full release on iOS after three years of development
Do you remember Eterspire? We first heard about this charming indie MMORPG back in February 2022, then peered back in a year later, but...
Unity’s runtime fee scheme sees game devs shut off Unity ads and employees turn in resignations
The tire fire of Unity's decision to impose "runtime fees" on studios that use the engine continues to burn bright and hot. Game developers...
New indie MMO Legendarium Online claims inspiration from Ultima Online and Tolkien
Like a prairie dog popping its head above ground to check out the scene, a new indie MMORPG suddenly emerged to make its presence...
Stick and Rudder: Chronicling CIG’s naked hostility toward Star Citizen’s long-time backers
Earlier this week, Cloud Imperium creative content lead Jared Huckaby stopped the focus of a Star Citizen Live showcase to very grumpily look through...
Throne & Liberty addresses ‘static combat and boring growth’ with latest revamps
As western players wait for more localized news from NCsoft and Amazon's Throne and Liberty, we're left to sift through the missives to Korean...
Ankama’s tactical card-driven MMO Waven unleashes multiple bug fixing patches and its first season pass
It's been about a month since Ankama's newest turn-based MMO Waven started its free-to-play early access, and developer Ankama has been absolutely abuzz with...
Lord of the Rings Online readies a plus-sized pirate event for September with new stories and missions
Tuesday, September 19th is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a cheeky internet holiday that's served as an inspiration for Lord of the...
Destiny 2 opens threads for PvPer input, tests new PvP modes, and promises PvP playlist restructuring
PvP players in Destiny 2 are very often the sort to have opinions, so in order for Bungie to leverage that input without exposing...
Rumor: RuneScape studio Jagex might be up for sale again, the fourth time in less than a decade
The uproar over RuneScape's new monetization mess has a new angle today as apparently the future of UK-based Jagex is up in the air.
According...
