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EverQuest guild woke the Sleeper on P99 Green – and all hell broke loose
If you read our recent Game Archaeologist column on it, you'll know that there's a whole lot of meaningful history behind a slumbering crystalline...
Massively Overthinking: If you could change one thing about an MMO…
Back in April, MOP's Colin posed us an interesting challenge on the MOP Podcast: change one thing about an MMO you don't like that...
EverQuest II opens up its Varsoon time-locked expansion server for beta testing
Who likes time-locked expansion servers? EverQuest II certainly does, and it's launching another one with the Varsoon server. If you missed the earlier FAQ...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 372: Blizzard’s great mobile hope
Justin and bree discuss Blizzard's quarterly financials, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, Forsaken World's sunset, ZeniMax's rumored Star Wars MMO, and EVE Fanfest and its COVID outbreak, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends, plus a voicemail topic on MMOs moving from fantasy to sci-fi.
PlanetSide 2 adjusts its main navigation menu, tweaks weapons, and seeks feedback from Connery server players
For PC players of PlanetSide 2, there's some new menu navigation experiences available. Yes, an update menu is at the heart of the latest...
Elteria Adventures continues development in spite of half the team ‘hiding in bombshelters’ in Ukraine
It's been almost a year since we poked our noses into multiplayer voxelbox Elteria Adventures, which readers will recall evoked Landmark with its release...
Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing
We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...
Jack Emmert is apparently leading a new NetEase studio – and not Daybreak’s Marvel MMO
So remember how Jack Emmert, the former Cryptic Studios boss, had moved over to Daybreak in 2016, where he was heading up Dimensional Ink,...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI’s PlayOnline decides to not let me play online
This was not how I was expecting to return to Final Fantasy XI. I always knew about the completely goofball account system that is...
SWG Legends’ new ranching, farming, taming, spicing, and smuggling patch is now live
When Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends announced a major patch to add farming, ranching, and spicing into the game two weeks ago,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best elves?
OK, nobody tell MOP's Justin, but I don't entirely share his hatred of elven races in MMOs. I'm not entirely sure why. I didn't...
SWG Legends is spooling up double reward events for May the Fourth and Revenge of the Sixth
Two of the big celebratory dates for Star Wars fans - May 4th, aka May the Fourth, and May 6th, aka Revenge of the...
The Game Archaeologist: Six cancelled MMOs that I wish had launched
In my lengthy tenure writing The Game Archaeologist -- which dates back to May 2010, if you can believe it -- I've covered MMOs...
Free Realms would’ve turned 13 years old this week if it were still alive
If you were around the MMO genre back in 2009, you might remember when SOE launched Free Realms, a cutesy kid-centric MMORPG that was...
PlanetSide 2’s roadmap blog teases new Outfit Wars and underwater combat
Daybreak's Michael "Wrel" Henderson has a new dev blog up for PlanetSide 2 players addressing both ongoing issues the team is managing and progress...
DC Universe Online brings the Dark Knights episode to Nintendo Switch on April 28
Poor Nintendo Switch players. You've been forced to sit there and watch while DC Universe Online players on PC got to experience all the...
Working As Intended: LFD, community accountability, and the balance of power in classic MMOs
At the heart of the WoW Classic argument over the dungeon finder tool is the professed belief that LFD ruined socializing in part by...
PlanetSide 2’s arsenal update drops on console with lots of deadly toys
While PC players have enjoyed PlanetSide 2's huge Arsenal update for almost a month now, the PlayStation community's been left with yesterday's weapons and...
LOTRO Legendarium: Six reasons why now is a great time to return to LOTRO
When you greatly love a game, franchise, or IP, there's nothing so heartwarming as to see it get a renaissance. In a world where...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2022: Revenues plummet, Blizzard loses another 2M players
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials.
As of this morning, we have Q1's results, comprising January, February, and March 2022, a...
