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Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff downsizes to a two-person team after a tumultuous 2022
Michael Kocha, the head developer of Kindred Games' multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff, has had a very busy few months. Kocha offers...
Dysterra announces a free weekend on Steam, launches Season 2 update with new maps, weapons, and items
Dysterra might have made its early access release just this past November, but it apparently is rushing forward into Season 2, which is the...
Perfect Ten: Tutorial topics every MMO really needs to cover
Tutorials are important in MMOs. No MMO has a great one, unfortunately. I don't just mean in the cases where returning players could use...
EVE Online’s latest patch updates the visuals of the Minmatar Rifter and sells newbie ship skins for all
It's not often that vets of EVE Online would look at new players with a sense of envy, but a recent update to the...
The Game Archaeologist: PlaneShift, the poster child of open-source MMOs
As the character creation screen fades out, a dark vista fades into being. The fledgling adventurer looks around at dim shapes and sinister movements...
Prosperous Universe devs share one last blog about server and UI updates
Before the devs of Prosperous Universe vacated the office for a holiday break, they had one final dev blog to write players of the...
Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’
Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2022
One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...
Zenith launches a festive winter event full of snowball fights, toys, challenges, and new pets this week
Care to spend some of your holiday season time in VR? That's what's will be on offer in the newest minor patch to VR...
Elite Dangerous applies fixes for Update 14 game crashes, UI issues, and gameplay features
The first post-release patch for Elite: Dangerous' Update 14 was kicked out yesterday, and while it might not address some of the larger bugbears...
Ryzom takes players on a flythrough its classic vistas in latest video
Ryzom: It's Still Around!™ That's the cheerful takeaway for the game's most recent video, which grants veterans and potential players a flythrough several of...
Choose My Adventure: Genfanad is ‘nostalgic’ in almost all of the wrong ways
I don't envy any development team that wants to make something that's "nostalgic." Making a game that hearkens back to predecessors or a time...
The MOP Up: Astrokings brings back Stargate SG-1 for a limited time
While it's not Stargate Worlds, Stargate SG-1 is back for its third round as a collaboration event in the space mobile MMORTS Astrokings: "Command...
MMO Cartographer: Elyon, dead game walking
It would be reasonable to wonder why I am bothering to write about my experiences in Elyon, a game that Kakao has long since...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Before the Shadow’s new starter area and skirmish
You know that agonizingly delicious sensation of encountering an MMO drop that has so much stuff to explore that you hardly know where to...
Zenith’s Legends Untold update arrives today as PSVR2 pre-orders go live
For the past several days, the VR MMO Zenith has been highlighting the features of its Legends Untold update, which is adding pet catching,...
The MOP Up: Fallout 76’s robots want you to look as dorky as you can be
A recent patch for Fallout 76 concentrated on fixing bugs, such as resetting weekly expedition rewards, adjusting several quest issues, improving the Atomic Shop,...
First impressions of Marvel Snap, an addictive mobile card game by Hearthstone’s former director
Feeling the effects of the "superhero movie fatigue syndrome" that's going around these days, I wasn't overly eager to check out Marvel Snap when...
Choose My Adventure: Running face-first into the brick wall that is Neocron
It's not often an MMO makes me ragequit, but hoo baby did I ever do that with Neocron.
I'll digest on why I think I...
Global Chat: Are you an MMO lone wolf even though you’ve tried to be social?
A recent post over at Words Under My Name resonated as the author shared how, despite multiple efforts to be social in MMOPGs, sooner...
