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Kickstarted MMO Past Fate previews the first 30 minute of its alpha gameplay experience
Did you happen to miss out on the earlier open alpha weekend of Past Fate? Maybe you forgot or you got busy or some...
Lord of the Rings Online talks monster play and Guardian class changes
More changes and adjustments to Lord of the Rings Online's odd PvP system are on the way with this month's Update 35. In a...
Choose My Adventure: New tutorials and old habits see Destiny 2’s hooks set in
I'm going to admit it to myself: In spite of my misgivings about what awaits me at the endgame, I can feel myself getting...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Destiny 2 was both bumpy and engaging
As we close out this random whim of mine to enter shooter MMOs for this month's Choose My Adventure, we clear out our list...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight sees its first level 70 character that has never left the boat to Exile’s Reach
The starting experience in World of Warcraft makes sense. You sail on a ship to Exile's Reach, you complete a bunch of quests, you...
Not So Massively: Voidtrain’s Next Fest demo leaves a terrible first impression
It's hard to find a survival game with an original premise these days. Dinosaurs? Done. Alien worlds? Done. Zombies? Done to (un)death. But how...
Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XI
You don't have to dig very far to find my articles saying nice things about Final Fantasy XI. I say them often. I'd be...
Choose My Adventure: Global Agenda provides a classic MMO ass-beating
I'll be one of the first to admit that in spite of my desire to get into a shooter MMO/multiplayer game this month, I'm...
Sandbox MMORPG Reign of Guilds reels back its early access feature set and holds Steam playtests
Ideally, a game in a form of open testing/open access adjusts its plans as necessary, and that appears to be the case for Reign...
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...
