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EVE Fanfest 2025 talks up the week’s worth of extra activities as tickets go on sale
EVE Online's Fanfest convention isn't only about a weekend's worth of reveals and information for the sci-fi sandbox; it's also a whole week of...
The Daily Grind: Which dead MMORPG needs a resurrection *and* has a possible path to get it?
A while back, our team was working on a MapleStory piece when we did something we often do when writing about MapleStory: lament the...
Elite Dangerous launches its Ascendancy update and teases a brand-new player colonization system
While today marks the big release of Elite Dangerous’ oft-delayed and much-anticipated revamp to the powerplay system along with the early access for the...
Star Citizen pushes alpha 4.0’s engineering gameplay features back over game stability concerns
Star Citizen has long promised players the chance to become an engineer aboard a starship along the "road to 4.0" that CIG has been...
Destiny 2’s Halloween-y Festival of the Lost brings new weapons and sells a witchypoo outfit
Wizards hate this one trick for becoming a magic-wielding powerhouse! All you need to do is put on a floppy hat and bam -...
EVE Online’s multiplayer mobile-only 4X strategy game EVE Galaxy Conquest officially releases
Are you ready for a second mobile game from the EVE Online universe? Stop answering, it's already happened: Say hello to EVE Galaxy Conquest,...
The Stream Team: Seeking out crash sites and settlements to loot in Elite Dangerous
MOP's Chris is once again heading out into the galaxy of Elite: Dangerous with his best friend to seek out trash! All right, maybe...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of tanks in MMORPGs
I've been thinking a fair bit about player archetypes lately, and that also means that I've been thinking about the variants within roles. While...
MMO Hype Train: Wayfinder is a genuinely good little RPG – but a missed opportunity to be an MMO
Look at that: I don't always talk a big talk -- sometimes I actually end up playing the game I said I will. Like...
Star Citizen player reports CIG is making him sign an NDA before getting a refund
We've chronicled the weird steps players have needed to take to get refunds from Star Citizen numerous times before, but now it looks like...
Blockchain-infused EVE Frontier schedules next playtest for early November
"EVE Online is good and all, but you know what it really needs? A heaping dose of blockchain for play-to-earn goodness!" said nobody but...
PlanetSide 2 is abruptly (and happily) merging its European servers into one today
There are two kinds of merges in the MMO genre. There's the kind of merge a studio does to a game that was supposed...
The Daily Grind: How much in-game money are you willing to spend on an MMORPG house?
A few weeks back, we did a piece rounding up some of the cool stuff Guild Wars 2 players have been building in Janthir...
The Stream Team: Diving into the Warframe 1999 demo
Sometimes, waiting is hard! Especially when there is a cool set of wheels involved. Massively OP's MJ has been waiting to run the Warframe...
ArenaNet, Standing Stone Games, and Daybreak all queue up Extra Life charity drives this weekend
With everything happening across our neck of the gaming woods this month, it's easy to lose sight of the more warm and fuzzy things...
Star Citizen players raise the alarm over internet spaceship nerfs that conveniently favor newer options
Generally, official forums for games are unhappy places in the best of times, but backers of Star Citizen are getting vocally resistant to ship...
Warframe 1999 preps for December launch, Soulframe plans open pre-alpha in 2025
This week was another info-filled livestream from the developers of Warframe and Soulframe, as Digital Extremes once again provided important dates and details for...
One Shots: The destiny of dragons
World of Warcraft may not be in the Dragonflight era any longer, but The War Within's first big content update had a lot of love for...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s new server is running smoothly, but some items are missing
It was an inauspicious start for Dungeons and Dragons Online's new premier 64-bit server, as the Cormyr shard experienced some of the worst slideshow...
Destiny Rising talks down fears of a stamina mechanic after a UI screenshot makes the rounds
Earlier this month, NetEase officially confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a mobile version of the looter shooter that was initially leaked by Bungie...