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NetEase abruptly announces an October sunset for Harry Potter Magic Awakened’s western version
NetEase and WB Games have some dreadful and abrupt news for fans of the mobile MMO Harry Potter Magic Awakened: It's sunsetting in the...
Tencent’s co-op looter-shooter Synced is sunsetting just a year after its western PC launch
We're the bearer of more bad news today: Tencent is closing down its looter-shooter Synced.
Synced was a sci-fi co-op looter shooter from Tencent's Level...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
First Impressions: Perfect New World is an unbalanced mess right now with its ‘equilibrious’ test
This past week has been a mighty full one for our genre in terms of the number of beta tests that landed on our...
Four Winds: Swords of Legends Online was a wasted opportunity
MMOs are hard to make. But despite the difficulties, we've seen some real gems over the years. They're also difficult to run. But the...
Gameforge is sunsetting Swords of Legends Online not quite two years after launch
I wish I could say nobody saw this coming, but unfortunately, the writing has been on the wall for a while: Gameforge announced this...
Astellia Online is back again as a crummy blockchain MMO called Astel of Atra
I'm sure you folks all remember Astellia Online: It was a South Korean import that launched here in 2019; we called it a "solidly...
The Daily Grind: Are there any ‘forgettable’ MMOs you still remember?
A while back, I proposed the term "temport" to describe a certain flavor of free-to-play MMO that gets imported from elsewhere (usually South Korea...
Eternal Magic, infamous for alleged plagiarism, has sunsetted as of today
If you can stretch your brain all the way back to the long, long ago of 2019, you might recall that we saw the...
The Daily Grind: What would convince you to play an MMO temport?
Ah, the noble temport! The MMO equivalent of a mayfly, released in a rush, with the hope that the cost of marketing plus localization...
Perfect Ten: Terminology the MMORPG genre needs
MMOs, like any other hobby, have their own terminology. We have the term "newb" for new players, "noob" for players who aren't actually new...
