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LOTRO Legendarium: 23 LOTRO facts I learned from Scenario’s Casual Stroll video series
Your mileage may vary, but as both a journalist and a gamer, I absolutely love hearing about how my favorite titles were made. It...
Casually Classic: The Death Knight starter experience is still the best WoW ever did
Recently, along with what seemed like half the population of the globe, I rolled up a brand-new Death Knight in WoW Classic to take...
NCsoft’s Throne and Liberty, still gunning for 2023, drops a new playtest gameplay video
Back in August, NCsoft told investors that it had delayed its next big game, Throne and Liberty, yet again - this time into 2023....
The MOP Up: Allods Online throws an orcish holiday
How many MMOs throw Orcs their very own holiday? I only know one: Allods Online, which celebrates all things orcish -- including goblin tossing...
Global Chat: Warming up to story-driven MMORPGs
Do you play MMOs for the narrative or ignore the story altogether? There's a sharp line dividing the community on this issue, but MMO...
Aion Classic’s subscription is about to be much cheaper – and more rewarding
Aion Classic's Siel's Aura - essentially a buff that grants hefty bonuses and unlocks to a subscription account for the game - is about...
Wild Terra 2 adds new tutorial context, opens a mining camp, and changes animal husbandry in latest patch
The sandbox of Wild Terra 2 has put out a new patch that touches on a variety of things without any particular single theme...
Wisdom of Nym: Where Final Fantasy XIV’s tutorials really fall down
I don't think there's really a question to be asked about whether or not Final Fantasy XIV wants new players to join the game....
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3 is dividing players in fantastic ways
I feel like Splatoon 3's release has been oddly quiet, though it's doing quite well in Japan. Selling over 3.45 million copies in 3...
Arcane Waters sails into a fresh playtest with treasure finding, updates to the perk system, and a new tutorial
It's a new month, a new weekend, and incidentally a new playtest for the pixel-styled pirating MMO Arcane Waters. The game has offered up...
SWG Restoration launches 1.0 version on Saturday with Mustafar and Jedi unlocks
Among the many (many!) player-run rogue servers for the long-defunct Star Wars Galaxies is Star Wars Galaxies Restoration III, a hybrid CU/NGE server that...
Chimeraland promises to improve localization, smooth its power level curve, and add cross-server matching
Our time in Chimeraland for Choose My Adventure was wild and wooly indeed, but also one that could benefit from a lot of refinement....
Halo Infinite fan manages to get local co-op working through a menu glitch
Fans of Halo Infinite were shocked - shocked! - well maybe not too shocked when 343 Industries officially confirmed local co-op development is done...
Choose My Adventure: Chimeraland lets its freak flag fly one last time
You remember how I wrote last week that Chimeraland was becoming comfortable and routine? That its weirdness had sort of become kind of expected...
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft ever give up its raiding fixation?
MMO blog Kaylriene posted a lengthy article recently examining the state of the non-raiding scene in World of Warcraft while comparing it to Blizzard's...
Star Citizen shows off alpha 3.18’s refined caves and early work on a new player tutorial
Sure, Star Citizen already has caves, and they're generally pretty nice caves, but what if they could be better? That's the goal for a...
Stick and Rudder: So you’ve completed the EVE Online tutorial – now what?
Since rejoining the player ranks of EVE Online, I’ve noticed a common sentiment from fellow newbies: Most agree that the environment is beautiful, the...
Arcane Waters enters early access November 15, kicks off a new playtest with a perks system this week
The pixel-y pirating multiplayer playground of Arcane Waters is continuing its steady slide forward in development. The biggest news to come out of the...
Choose My Adventure: Chimeraland’s weirdness routine continues to become a comfortable cadence
There's always a point when you're playing a new game that things become comfortable. A lot of folks tend to refer to that as...
MMO Profane teases cosmetics, housing, and crafting in latest braindump
FFA PvP MMO Profane continues its refusal to create forum threads or blog posts about its development progress, choosing instead to dish out Twitter...
