Tencent’s World of Warcraft clone, Tarisland, plans global rollout
The vacuum created by World of Warcraft's closure in China back in January created an opportunity for a new title to fill that void:...
Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.2 as players express surprise at a partial wipe and outline several build bugs
Yesterday saw another Star Citizen patch go live as alpha 3.18.2 hit the PU with nothing more in its notes beyond "general stability and...
CCP Games is already sunsetting EVE Anywhere after just a year in the wild
Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere - essentially a cloud-hosted version...
Rumor: Throne & Liberty has been delayed to fall 2023, CBT arrives in May
Korean media are reporting today that NCsoft's Throne & Liberty has been delayed yet again, though of course since we've been waiting since 2014...
The Swordsmen X Survival quietly lists an April 27 early access release date on Steam and releases new trailers
Last month we took a peek back in the direction of Swordsmen X: Survival, a martial arts survival sandbox that first crossed our desk...
The Daily Grind: What are some demonstrably wrong things about old MMOs that people insist were true anyway?
A while back, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit arguing that "minmaxing an information abundance has ruined MMORPGs" and posited that devs...
Sandbox MMORPG Ethyrial Echoes of Yore ties down a May 1 release date
Mines are dark places and that's no different in the mines of sandbox MMORPG Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore. You need a helmet with a...
Riot MMO’s principal game designer steps down in what former Riot dev calls ‘a natural part of the life cycle of a game dev’
The MMORPG that Riot is developing has apparently lost another member of its senior staff. Justin "Xenogenic" Hanson announced his departure from Riot this...
A serious Guild Wars 2 exploit led to a temporary Elementalist nerf over the weekend
On Saturday, ArenaNet took the unusual move of disabling a couple of Elementalist traits in Guild Wars 2 that made the Weaver spec nigh...
2019 indie MMO Slay Together resurfaces with a crafting update
Way back in 2019, we covered a brand-new teeny-tiny MMORPG dubbed Slay Together, an early access MMORPG with a simple gameplay loop and reasonable...
Perfect New World shares content players can expect during its upcoming closed beta
Those who have been following Perfect New World have already seen a bit of gameplay in the MMO's initial Steam page launch, but if...
Dungeon crawler Dark and Darker goes to ‘Plan Z’ by releasing its playtest via torrent
The incredibly odd and unfortunate saga of multiplayer dungeon crawler Dark and Darker continues to vie for weirdest story of 2023. After getting the...
Players cry foul over Call of Duty Warzone cash shop skins that offer unfair advantages
More often than not, the term "pay-to-win" is used as a weapon against almost anything, but in the case of some discovered premium skins...
Wayfinder delays its global beta to May and its early access to summer
We've more than once expressed skepticism that Wayfinder might need a bit more time to cook and wouldn't make its May early access launch,...
Path of Exile launches Crucible for console today as PC delivers new 321K peak concurrency
Crucible is coming to console today as Path of Exile preps the expansion and its new league for PlayStation and Xbox - and console...
Myst Online Uru Live dev shows off an original Myst V puzzle coming soon to the multiplayer title
Who here remembers the puzzles of the Great Shaft in Myst V? We appreciate if your memory doesn't stretch quite that far, which means...
MUD Aetolia used ChatGPT to generate NPC dialogue and grant a fake quest
Some game developers continue to laud AI generation tools like ChatGPT as the future of many frontiers, including NPC behavior in MMORPGs and gaming...
Elder Scrolls Online studio addresses allegation of fan art used on cash shop skin
In July 2020, an artist by the name of Relan Daevath created some Elder Scrolls fanart featuring some incredible-looking tattoo flash styled after some...
CCP Games’ CEO defends Project Awakening’s existence as the studio seeks a blockchain ecosystem dev
Any cryptocurrency-focused video that opens with a gigantic legal disclaimer stating its content shouldn't be taken as legal or financial advice should immediately set...
Noia Online is a browser-based 2-D sandbox MMO available in open alpha
"Hi. My name is Dean. I'm making an MMO because I believe I can." That's literally the straightforward pitch from a dev vlog...
