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Shadow Arena’s closed beta test has officially begun – are you trying it out?
Shadow Arena, Pearl Abyss' one-time battle royale mode for MMORPG Black Desert, officially hits closed beta today as a standalone title.
"Shadow Arena pits 40...
Diablo IV team dishes on inventory revamp, PC vs. console UI layout, and cannibals
Blizzard's just dropped a "quarterly update" for Diablo 4, the first of apparently more planned blog posts from the team, this one focused on...
PlanetSide 2’s Escalation update launch may be delayed again [Yep, it was]
All February, Daybreak and Rogue Planet Games have been teasing PlanetSide 2's Escalation update. It was first meant to launch on the 19th but...
Get a look at Lord of the Rings Online’s elaborate Rohan housing
The recent stealth debut of Lord of the Rings Online's Rohan housing on the test server excited a game community that hasn't seen new...
One Shots: Imitation and flattery
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then MMO players are the biggest flatterers in the world. When we're not making avatars to...
Ship of Heroes grants a look a new Martial Arts melee powerset in a video
It takes a special kind of superhero to go into a fight against the forces superheroes face with nothing but your fists and feet,...
Interview: Population Zero devs on the May Steam launch, buy-to-play, and PvP philosophy
Survival MMORPG Population Zero is officially launching on Steam in early May, Enplex Games announced today. As part of the reveal, the studio's also...
Netmarble’s Q4 2019 were up YOY as the company raked in $1.6B for the year and pushes west
I'm gonna say a weird thing about Netmarble: It has the cleanest, most non-misleading investor report of any of the ones I've poked through...
Interview: Pearl Abyss on Shadow Arena’s Black Desert origins, esports, audience, and more
Along with battle royale fans and Black Desert players, we've been keeping an eye on Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena, the one-time battle royale mode...
Grab a key for Shadow Arena’s February 27 closed beta, courtesy of Pearl Abyss and MOP
If you were a big fan of Black Desert's Shadow Arena when it joined the MMO and then was removed last year, then you're...
Pearl Abyss had a strong Q4 2019, but CCP’s EVE-spinoff Project Nova is officially canceled
South Korean gaming giant Pearl Abyss is on the rise once again - and unlike many of its mobile-focused competitors, PC MMORPGs and the...
Global Chat: How fares WoW Classic at the six-month mark?
The phases (i.e., patches) for World of Warcraft Classic continue to roll out, and as the endgame takes form and Darkmoon Faire arrives, it's...
One Shots: Something’s fishy here…
At first glance, it looks as though Vincent has been treed by a giant floating koi and an armored chicken. If we're honest, this...
MMO Business Roundup: Tim Sweeney’s politics gaffe, Nexon’s Q4 2019, and the old BioWare crew
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Politics in games
Epic's Tim Sweeney opened this week's DICE Summit with a whopper of...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
Blue Protocol shares more character creation and initial gameplay, Reddit fansubs the closed beta trailer
The first few moments of an MMORPG are certainly the most impactful, and in this new look from Bandai-Namco's upcoming Blue Protocol, that first...
Star Citizen talks alpha 3.9 and beyond in wake of record-breaking crowdfunding year
The Pillar Talk roundtable video from Star Citizen is all about plans. Plans for 3.9, plans for the new Pyro system, plans for the...
Multiplayer-optional ARPG Wolcen just launched on Steam with a huge day-one patch
It's not an MMO, but you might want Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem on your wish-list anyway. It's a new ARPG from WOLCEN Studio, clearly...
Starbase shares work on moon surfaces and advertisements and a new Boltcrackers episode
It's another week of progress notes from Starbase, and just like the last time this one has some shiny new pictures and updates from...
Funcom’s Conan Chop Chop has been delayed yet again, this time to Q2 2020
Funcom spent 2019 teasing its goofy but cuddly online ARPG Conan Chop Chop. Originally floated as an April Fools' Day joke, it turned out...
