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The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you no longer anticipating?
There are several MMOs I'm no longer anticipating or even expecting to launch at this point, but let me pick one of the former...
League of Legends’ 2023 season trailer leaves fans underwhelmed and forces Riot to calm player concerns
Generally speaking, a hype trailer should... well, generate hype, and after the bombastic trailer for last year's season of League of Legends, players had...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023
As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world
Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...
Riot Games struggles to get out of deal with failing crypto company
Riot Games is the latest entity that's learning the hard way that crypto isn't a fast track to wealth and success. Last year, the...
Riot Games takes NetEase to court over an alleged mobile Valorant-lookalike
Chinese gaming giant NetEase is facing down a legal challenge from Riot Games over a mobile title that, according to Riot's lawsuit, bears more...
Global Chat: The dawning of a new great MMO era
The next great era of MMORPGs is in the making right now and will dawn on us shortly -- or so postulates MMO Folklorist,...
The MOP Up: SWTOR spins a Bounty Hunter yarn
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it was nearly your bedtime and Star Wars: The Old Republic sat down next...
The Daily Grind: Should the MMO genre take another stab at esports?
A few years ago, there was a concerted push in the MMO genre to design, amplify, and boost esports, and I don't just mean...
Riot’s lawsuit against League of Legends copycat is tossed, Legends of Runeterra previews 2023
We have a pair of headlines coming out of Riot Games in this story. We'll start off with the latest on a May lawsuit...
Riot MMO lead still cagey about game details as he talks about career and online RPG design
While it is not the detail-laden treasure chest of information that fans of Riot's upcoming Runeterra MMORPG were hoping to hear, a recent interview...
Runeterra MMO director talks about MMORPG design and monetization in interview preview
Riot Games' in-development Runeterra MMO has been a topic of discussion for director Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street for a long while now, and while there's...
Riot Games buys up Wargaming support studio to help with Valorant and League of Legends
Riot Games has bought itself a shiny new studio. Or more specifically, a well-established one: Wargaming Sydney, which has been helping Wargaming out with...
League of Legends introduces its newest character K’sante and details this year’s ranked season rewards
We're still a few weeks away from League of Legends' big esports hullabaloo, but that's not stopping the MOBA from offering up video previews...
Evercore Heroes promises ‘competitive PvE’ that merges MOBA combat and MMO dungeon delving
What do you get when you mesh together MOBA-style combat, team-based competition, and PvE dungeon dives? You might get something like Evercore Heroes, the...
The MOP Up: Embers Adrift’s soundtrack swells prior to launch
With less than a week to go before Embers Adrift becomes the newest launched MMORPG on the block, the studio pointed out that its...
Riot Games sponsors design challenge centered on making online spaces safer
Riot Games is not a gaming company most folks in our industry would consider a paragon of community in or off the court. The...
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra announces new card rotations and formats
Legends of Runeterra, Riot Games' multiplayer digital card game, is preparing to go down the same path of many of its digital and analogue...
Omega Strikers is an open beta 3v3 game of high-speed soccer from former League of Legends devs
Are you ready for some football? Or soccer? Or a 3v3 game with some extremely colorful characters that runs at a speed that's much...