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Star Trek Online previews some of the improvements coming with the Year of Klingons
Today is not yet a good day to die... but that day is coming soon, as the Year of Klingons approaches in Star Trek...
Perfect Ten: What makes me feel welcome when trying out your MMO
While it's not "standing in front of your high school in your underpants and reciting a difficult Shakespeare passage" level of anxiety, there is...
Global Chat: Do numbers rob MMOs of fun?
Have developers and players grown so used to mechanics and number crunching that we've collectively lost something important along the way? That's the concern...
Choose My Adventure: The slow slog to familiarity in EVE Online
Once more, we begin this adventure in EVE Online with some self-owning. For an embarrassingly long amount of time, I was incapable of working...
The Stream Team: Cue the crafting in Dungeons and Dragons Online
Massively OP's MJ has been doing plenty of dungeoning and dragoning in DDO, but there is more to an MMO than just the fighting....
A sneak peek at Dauntless’ new umbral-charged Escalation and creepy new Behemoth
This coming Thursday, June 11th, will see a fresh update to the monster-slashing online RPG Dauntless, which is bringing improvements to the new player...
EVE Evolved: A live event threatens to reshape EVE Online’s map
While EVE Online has always focused on the real stories created by players through player-vs.-player conflict rather than on its NPC storyline, its universe...
RuneScape makes changes to the player-owned farm tutorial and Kalphite King in this week’s patch
The weekly update post from RuneScape this week is a little bit thin on things to talk about. That's not to say there aren't...
Perfect Ten: An entirely accurate and unassailable history of pet classes in MMORPGs
Pet classes! They're a very important part of MMORPGs, the opportunity to not just go into combat alone but to march in alongside a...
Dual Universe outlines alpha 3.1’s updates to visuals, warp drives, resurrection nodes, and tutorials
What's in the works for the next Dual Universe alpha build? A fair number of things according to the latest Inside Novaquark podcast. The...
Life Beyond talks about changes to its tutorial area and brings back its compass in the latest update
Starting out a new life in the survival sandbox Life Beyond is hoping to get a little easier if a preview of the game's...
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a fun treasure buried under antique contrivances and inconveniences
When I first booted up Phantasy Star Online 2, the only way to get to a suite of visual options that included making the...
Crucible updates players on launch issues and future content
Crucible's launch week has been a bit of a rocky one by the devs' own reckoning, but according to word in the game's first...
An Old School RuneScape fan has started making an audio drama based on the MMORPG
What do people who love theater do when they can't partake in the theater due to the pandemic? They turn to audio dramas, apparently,...
MMO Cartographer: Exploring Revelation Online’s Skyward World update
Revelation Online, originally developed by NetEase and published in the west by My.games, recently launched its Skyward World update. It contained updates for players...
Choose My Adventure: The first steps as a Romulan in Star Trek Online
In last week's column, I mentioned that the start of our Star Trek Online journey would not be done alone, and sure enough I've...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends is hosting newbie welcome events this weekend
When I first dipped my toe into the Star Wars Galaxies Legends rogue server two years ago, the game routinely hovered around a peak...
Fight or Kite: Starborne is the MMORTS I didn’t know I was missing
For about 15 years, I’ve had an MMORTS shaped hole in my heart. I didn’t even realize it was there. I used to play...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO race is too ugly for you to play?
In graphical games, looks matter -- even when we claim we're above such petty eye candy. And when we're crafting a character to represent...
First Impressions: Fractured’s alpha playtest begins to put the pieces together
As we reported at the end of last week, MMORPG sandbox Fractured opened up its alpha test to all backers. With this test phase,...
