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MMO Week in Review: Bless goes dark, Star Trek Online awakens
I was thinking last week was a bit thin on MMO news, but I'm so glad I do this weekly recap because it's proved...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2 looks ahead, WoW Classic looks back
Guild Wars 2 was buzzing all week in the wake of its contentious saga announcement as ArenaNet suggested it hadn't ruled out another expansion...
MMO Week in Review: WoW Classic’s launch, Guild Wars 2’s new saga
'Twas a truly wild between-Gamescom-and-PAX-West week for the MMORPG genre. Not only did WoW Classic officially launch to wild queues and capacity boosts and...
MMO Week in Review: You are not prepared for WoW Classic
Whether you're all-in for WoW Classic's launch this week or convinced it's just gonna die standing in a fire, we're pretty sure you're not...
MMO Week in Review: Where Blizzard goes, the MMO genre follows?
Hear that rumble off in the distance? It's WoW Classic, and it's only two weeks out now, as all the infodumps and server plans...
MMO Week in Review: New shinies for LOTRO, DDO, and Star Trek Online as E3 suffers data breach
Multiple big MMORPGs got major announcement this week: Lord of the Rings Online announced a new Dwarf race, Dungeons and Dragons Online revealed a...
MMO Week in Review: Wouldn’t it be awesome if Guild Wars 2’s next season were Cantha
It was a surprisingly solid week for Guild Wars 2, not so much because of one specific thing but because of the deluge: ArenaNet...
MMO Week in Review: SWTOR’s latest monetization tweaks
Star Wars The Old Republic dropped a patch this week, a quality-of-life update that makes the free-to-play experience a bit less paintful in the...
MMO Week in Review: Amazon joins new Lord of the Rings MMORPG, Daybreak is up to something
Any other week, the news that Amazon Games Studios has joined up with Leyou on a previously announced Lord of the Rings MMORPG would...
MMO Week in Review: Help, our staff got eaten by Shadowbringers
It would've been hard for an MMO to compete with Final Fantasy XIV this week, a game whose brand-new Shadowbringers expansion our columnist described...
MMO Week in Review: Shadowbringers and Rise of Azshara’s duel to the pain
World of Warcraft has never been one to just let a Final Fantasy XIV expansion just roll by and take all its bored players,...
MMO Week in Review: Quite ethical and quite fun surprise mechanics
I remember when I used to worry about studios misusing words like sandbox, free-to-play, persistent world, and MMORPG. I even worried that the term...
MMO Week in Review: E3 actually didn’t suck for MMOs this year
E3 2019 dominated the headlines this week, even for MMO players, which isn't always a given. We got news on Elder Scrolls Online's next...
MMO Week in Review: Big expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Black Desert, and Path of Exile
The week or two before E3 is usually dodgy: Sometimes, studios hold all their news for the show. Other times, they're in a rush...
MMO Week in Review: Bring on Shadowbringers
Final Fantasy XIV knows how to throw a giant reveal extravaganza, and that's exactly what it did this week, giving us opportunity to deep-dive...
MMO Week in Review: Going Elsweyr
Elder Scrolls Online launched its big annual campaign, Elsweyr, into its headstart early access for PC players this week, and while the official launch...
MMO Week in Review: A feast for MMOs in Guild Wars 2, WoW Classic, and City of Heroes
Not at all for the first time, Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft announcements clashed rather hard this week, as ArenaNet released the...
MMO Week in Review: The proposal to crack down on predatory video games
Lockboxes, lootboxes, gambleboxes: Whatever you wanna call 'em, they've been on a wild ride the last couple of years, elevated from something only MMORPG...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s freezing financials
Yikes, Blizzard didn't have a great week: Its first quarter financials dropped, and they were brutal indeed, revealing that Blizzard's small stable of games...
MMO Week in Review: Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.
What a week in MMOs, right? BlizzCon got dates, we explored Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming Necromancer class, EVE Online rescinded its accusations against a...
