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Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
Massively on the Go: Why Pokemon Go elite raids fail while Scarlet/Violet tera raids fly
As we recently noted while updating our March Pokemon Go event round-up, Niantic has somehow made the already hated Elite Raids even worse. The...
Whatever happened to PixArk, Ship of Fools, and Justice Online?
Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, our intermittent roundup on MMOs and multiplayer games that have somehow slipped off our radar...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most-played MMOs in 2023?
Last week in Massively Overthinking, we discussed our three most-played MMOs of 2022 - and whether we'd guessed right at the top of that...
Rumor: Life is Feudal MMO might be making a comeback, with a sequel in the works
The medieval sandbox MMORPG Life is Feudal died something of a slow death, first with a January 2021 sunset followed by an October 2022...
Neverwinter’s Festival of Simril holiday event returns on December 15, offers a baby displacer beast
While the game is called Neverwinter, it's also not going to be NeverChristmas. The Winter Festival of Simril is making its way back to...
Myth of Empires devs copied ‘substantial portions’ of ARK’s game code according to expert testimony
It's been some time since the legal drama spawned from multiplayer strategy survival sandbox Myth of Empires has been in our headlines, so...
SEC filing shows the millions Sony and Microsoft paid for ARK Survival Evolved to be on their game passes
The old adage goes that you have to spend money to make money, and that's generally an assumed cost that Sony and Microsoft have...
Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects
Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft ever give up its raiding fixation?
MMO blog Kaylriene posted a lengthy article recently examining the state of the non-raiding scene in World of Warcraft while comparing it to Blizzard's...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight nerfs Dracthyr’s soar speed, but here are some mounts to make up for it
World of Warcraft's newest race isn't going to be quite as zippy as early Dragonflight testers found. This is because Blizzard is nerfing the...
Ashes of Creation shows off its remarkably diverse desert biome
Everyone knows that deserts are boring... or are they? Ashes of Creation would like to convince you that its barren regions aren't quite as...
Neverwinter’s returning Summer Festival awards a surfboard mount and a grill-loving Dragonborn
The summer season will once more descending upon Neverwinter as the game's annual Summer Festival event is on its way back on Thursday, July...
Whatever happened to magic-filled survival sandbox Dark and Light?
We haven't heard a lot out of Dark and Light, Snail Games' survival sandbox title that launched in early access in July 2017. While...
OrbusVR opens the chaotic and tentacle-filled K’tula’s Cove dungeon
You just know you're in a chaos-filled location when everything is covered in tentacles, eyeballs, and the color purple. Also when you're assaulted by...
Massively Overthinking: Bots in MMOs – but not the bad bots
A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a provocative thread about bots - no, not those bots. Essentially, the Redditor asked whether...
Atlas discusses improving solo player experiences, community mods, and ‘specialty realms’ in Q&A
While the pirating sandbox of Atlas is still apparently planning an end to early access by this year, there's still lots to do and...
Myth of Empires opens a server with no building decay and lands on the Humble Bundle store
Angela Game appears to be hard set on operating the survival sandbox Myth of Empires as if there's no ongoing legal issues happening whatsoever,...
Myth of Empires plans fast-progression season servers for April
Myth of Empires isn't letting that whole copyright infringement lawsuit get in the way of game development, oh no: Over the weekend, Angela Game...
Atlas promises ship diversity, more taming features, PvP adjustments, and end to early access in roadmap video
The piratical sandbox of Atlas has some things for players to look forward to in the new year, including some adjustments to existing features...
