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Global Chat: Shopping for a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server
Interested in going back to Star Wars Galaxies -- or trying it out for the first time -- but you find yourself paralyzed with...
One Shots: Watching the firelog show
What did people and hobbits used to do before you could stream a fireplace on your television? Apparently, they hacked up tree corpses, dragged...
SWG Legends preps Life Day, starship upgrades, and the Carrie Fisher memorial
Happy Life Day, my fellow Star Wars nerds. How would you like to celebrate the season in Star Wars Galaxies? You can do just...
DC Universe Online’s Season’s Greedings event returns with new feats and treats for 2022
DC Universe Online is once again celebrating the season of greed this year, and before you assume that's a message about late-stage capitalism and...
PlanetSide 2 PC celebrates the Auraximas season on live, tests repository hacking changes
The Christmas season has once again arrived to the PC version of the large-scale FPS PlanetSide 2 with the return of Auraximas, the regular...
Star Wars Galaxies emu Dark Rebellion uses integrated D20 systems for ‘complex and immersive adventures’
Roleplaying in MMORPGs is very often an additive experience that's hammered into the existing framework of the game, not baked in to its entire...
Activision-Blizzard’s new lawsuit is another attack on the state agency pursuing it for discrimination and harassment
Activision-Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against California's Civil Rights Department (fka the DFEH) alleging that the agency "slow-walked" and "unlawfully redacted" documents the company...
PSO2 New Genesis launches the first portion of December’s Hellfire Vanguard update
Want to explore a volcanic region? No? Sounds dangerous? Well then you're going to miss out on Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis' latest...
End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2022
When you're investing a whole lot of time and (potentially) money into MMORPGs, you want to make sure that your game isn't going belly-up...
EverQuest’s 29th expansion, Night of Shadows, is officially live for players
Twenty-nine: That's the total number of expansions that Classic EverQuest has delivered to date, capped off by the newest entry, Night of Shadows, which...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 399: Dragonflight takes to the skies
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Dragonflight's launch; New World's 2023 roadmap; the sunset of Elyon and Forsaken World; new content for EverQuest II, Wizard101, Embers Adrift, Guild Wars 2, and Elite Dangerous; plus adventures in LOTRO, MOP's end-of-the-year awards, and a mailbag topic on auto-scaling in MMOs.
The Daily Grind: What was the best event in the MMO genre in 2022?
If ever there were a year that I wish we hadn't demoted "best event" from an award to a Daily Grind, it was 2022,...
Phantasy Star Online 2’s volcanic Stia region drops Wednesday
No MMO is complete without the traditional Lava Zone, as we well know. Phantasy Star Online 2 must have felt the peer pressure on...
EverQuest’s Frostfell celebration blasts back into town
Forget Santa -- we're here for EverQuest's Santug Claugg and his mysterious winter ways. The mythical figure has returned, as the MMO revved back...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best console or mobile experience as of 2022?
I have noted before that while I have two consoles and love to game on my phone, I'm probably always going to be a...
The MOP Up: Another look back at Final Fantasy XI’s history
Final Fantasy XI continued its series of retrospective interviews, this time sitting down with former GM Toshio Murouchi to talk about the history and...
EverQuest Online Adventures rogue server project is ‘very active’ as it develops three shards
It's now been a full decade since EverQuest Online Adventures closed up shop after a nine-year run in 2012. The PlayStation 2 MMORPG released...
EverQuest II: Renewal of Ro launches today
Squeaking in under the wire to make a November launch, EverQuest II's latest expansion, Renewal of Ro, launches later today.
Players find themselves returning to...
One Shots: Watch out below!
Hey guy? Yeah, you might want to move a scootch to the left there. Little more. There, you got it. Now you're not about...
The Game Archaeologist: Wizardry Online, the short-lived permadeath MMO
While the Wizardry series may not have the cultural cache that Ultima or Final Fantasy ended up with, nevertheless the dungeon crawling RPG series...
