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Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis brings new missions, placeable water, and the spooky season this month
The month of October is once again promising to be full of things to do in Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, as the...
Perfect Ten: The best MMOs from the years before we started counting
You know what bothers me? Our annual awards recap. We always list all of the games that we've given awards to in the past,...
MMO Business Roundup: Sony, SEGA, and Square-Enix drop a mixed bag of quarterly financials
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news - this time 'round, it's all about quarterly financial reports.
Square-Enix:Â Square saw another broad...
Sega is promising a new open-world and massively multiplayer Crazy Taxi game
If you've never played Crazy Taxi before, the gameplay is very simple to describe: Someone gets in your taxi, you drive to the designated...
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis preps a 12th anniversary, in-game card game, and new weapons for July
Wait, didn't Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis already celebrate an anniversary? Yes, but that was the third anniversary for NGS specifically; the month...
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis continues its third anniversary and adds more limited-time quests
May continues to be a month of celebration for Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, as this week's patch has continued the MMORPG's third...
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis marks three years with Halpha’s Super Origin Festival
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is kicking off a celebration of its third anniversary this week with a big event that has a...
Perfect Ten: The 10 best Final Fantasy crossovers
So yesterday we got hit with the Final Fantasy XVI crossover in Final Fantasy XIV. It was all right, I guess. But it wasn't...
April Fools’ Day 2024 events and gags from around the MMORPG world
Welcome to weird MMORPG game mode day! I mean, April Fools' Day - not that we're sorry a lot of the "pranks" have become...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
Ragnarok Online kicks off a collab event with Sonic the Hedgehog today
Ragnarok Online has been running for a pretty long while now, but we're certain that the MMORPG has never held a collaboration event with...
Has 2024 put the game industry ‘on the brink of disaster’? Extra Credits weighs in
If you haven't been paying attention -- despite even our own hollering it from the rooftops -- this year has been absolutely terrible for...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs
Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...
The MOP Up: Lost Skies gets downright cozy inside of its ships
Lost Skies'Â February dev blog showed off some UX work, early prototypes of its weapon damage system, and some super-cozy ship interior concepts. Also, the...
Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games
The Nightingale team's admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game - and that Inflexion is now planning to do...
Four Winds: Phantasy Star Online 2 offers some of the best social features in MMORPGs
I don't know about everyone else, but a huge part of MMOs for me is the fashion. My characters need to absolutely slay the runway...
Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel
A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two
Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...
Phantasy Star Online 2’s latest update adds more story and raises the level cap as SEGA America begins layoffs
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis players are in for a treat today, and they deserve it after waiting through a nine-hour maintenance with...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
