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Vague Patch Notes: Queues do not tell the story of an MMO’s success
It's time to talk about queues to log in to a game, and you know what game we have to talk about in this...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest activity you’ve charged MMO currency for?
As City of Heroes Homecoming tests long-awaited recycling rules for abandoned names and characters, I've been contemplating what to do with some of the...
Marvel World of Heroes is a mobile AR game where players can create a superhero and foil crimes
If you thought the mobile augmented reality gaming market was dried up, you'd probably be right, but that's not stopping Marvel from (arguably) arriving...
DC Universe Online posts its fall development update and previews the Sins of Black Adam
Do you absolutely hate events in DC Universe Online? If so, we've got some bad news for you: You're going to get more of...
Perfect Ten: Recent promising MMOs that died before they were born
Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...
Champions Online is giving away character slots and vehicles for its 13th birthday
Champions Online is in the midst of celebrating its 13th birthday - its first under new parent group Embracer and Gearbox.
"Happy Anniversary, Champions!" Cryptic...
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....
EG7 Q2 2022: Daybreak’s Jason Epstein is now chairman of the board
Remember a year ago when the Enad Global 7 board ousted CEO and co-founder Robin Flodin and replaced him - temporarily and in an...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 386: Lord of Lord of the Rings Online
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's mini-expansion and IP rights, Dual Universe, Mad World, Wrath Classic's prepatch, Alganon's return, and Guild Wars 2's Steam launch, with adventures in LOTRO, CoH, SWGL, and RIFT, plus a mailbag question on Ultima Online New Legacy.
City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27 Page 4 goes live with its new music-wielding powersets
The testing phase has ended, and the live update is now available for the Homecoming rogue server of City of Heroes. Issue 27 Page...
Champions Online is reviving its streaming apparatus for its 13th birthday
Look up there in the sky! Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's a new streaming schedule for Champions Online!
That's right: Cryptic's underdog...
Vague Patch Notes: The perils of comparing MMOs to each other
So the other day I read perhaps the worst Tower of Fantasy review I could have possibly read. It was most certainly not the...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO genre thriving in scarcity?
I want to talk about the MMO genre in the meta sense for a sec this morning. Every time I see another game pivot...
Massively Overthinking: What’s so bad about comfort zones in MMOs?
If you've been following the MMORPG meta for a long time, particularly in World of Warcraft, you know there's corner of the industry convinced...
Valiance Online says it’s building ‘a solid foundation’ but hasn’t showed any progress this year so far
While the City of Heroes rogue servers continue to roll and spiritual successors such as City of Titans and Ship of Heroes are vocal...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 384: The World of Warcraft we’ll never see
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's financials, the canceled WoW mobile MMO, LOTRO remastered, the Riot MMO, and Legends of Aria's monetization, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and Fallout 76, plus a voicemail wishing for an MMO amnesia button.
Champions Online’s newest event asks players to fight an invasion of literal nightmares
You would think that the physical embodiments of nightmares would know better than to attack a metropolis full of superpowered beings, but that's not...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best leveling curve?
Last weekend I logged into a City of Heroes rogue server to take my kids for a round of radio missions. I let my...
Global Chat: Is Phantasy Star Online 2 a shallow MMO?
In a recent post on trying out Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, blogger Virtual Bastion made the observation that the MMO offered "slick...
DC Universe Online makes targeted adjustments to several specific artifacts in latest patch
Today has seen a new patch to DC Universe Online that is primarily all about adjusting some of the game's artifacts, so if your...
