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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
Star Trek Online’s creepy Hearts and Minds mission returns this weekend to mark Friday the 13th
Today is Friday the 13th and that's reason enough for Star Trek Online to try to squick out its players by pulling the Hearts...
Choose My Adventure: Tiny ship takes on big battles in Star Trek Online
I didn't have a whole heap of time to myself in Star Trek Online this week, but considering that I was basically told to...
Vague Patch Notes: Nostalgia isn’t the problem with pining for your MMO past
So it hasn't been long since World of Warcraft launched a new set of WoW Classic servers, except this time it's WoW Classic Classic,...
DC Universe Online’s new leadership teases new content format and event system in 2025
We don't know whether anyone but us has noticed this, but Daybreak is having one hell of a week with content or announcements for...
Choose My Adventure: Starting life as a Jem’Hadar in Star Trek Online
So, first thing's first: I wasn't really able to spend excessive time in Star Trek Online this weekend. It was not just a holiday...
Star Trek Online rings in the holidays with the return of Q’s Winter Wonderland
It's Christmastime in the final frontier yet again! That's because Star Trek Online has reopened the Q's Winter Wonderland event zone with returning events...
PSA: Star Trek Online gives away free T6 battlecruiser and outfits for a limited time
It's absolutely not every day that Star Trek Online hands out its highest tier starships for free, but that's exactly what's happening in the...
Choose My Adventure: Red Dead Online is a multiplayer buried treasure
There's nothing quite as bad in gaming as wasted potential. There are no shortage of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games that reached for the...
Perfect Ten: Utterly silly MMO transmedia synergy over the years
Remember back when Trion Worlds tried to coin -- or cement -- the term "transmedia synergy" for the relationship between Defiance the game and Defiance the...
MMO Business Roundup: Embracer Q2 2024, Steam toxicity, and GOG’s game preservation program
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer
Embracer - the failson megacorp we keep an eye on because...
Star Trek Online launches the Dimensional Typhoon event for console and The Feast event for PC
It's event week in both PC and console editions of Star Trek Online apparently, as the latest patch for the MMORPG has added a...
EG7 Q3 2024: EverQuest, LOTRO, and Palia gave Daybreak its best quarter all year
The quarterly financials avalanche continues this week with Enad Global 7, better known to MMORPG fans as the company that bought Daybreak and then...
Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs
So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...
Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week
It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...
World of Warships teams up with Star Trek again with Picard, Borg, and Spock
World of Warships is back in cahoots with Star Trek, of all franchises, supposedly under the assumption that a ship is a ship, even...
Star Trek Online gets into the Halloween spirit with space witches
Putting aside the valid fears of mass studio layoffs for the simulated fears the final frontier, Star Trek Online players are invited to indulge...
Star Trek Online ends grandfathered subscriptions – in exchange for free lifetime memberships
As if the news of Cryptic's mass layoffs and de facto demise this week wasn't news enough, now Star Trek Online's new caretakers appear...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...