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The Daily Grind: What are your objectives during the first hour of an MMO?
After months and even years of waiting, the time is here at last. You've downloaded the game, poured a glass of your favorite frosty...
Pixelart MMO Tales of Yore officially launches out of early access
It's been months since we last peeked in on Tales of Yore, the goofy but detailed retro 2-D MMO from indie studio Coke and...
Roblox adds a familiar face-tracking animation feature, and players are already being weird with it
Who here remembers SOEmote? If you don't, just know it was a feature added to EverQuest II in 2012 that let players use a...
Tarisland outlines planned changes to dungeons, raids, and the Universal Hall
The post-beta processing continues from Tarisland; first Tencent talked about class adjustments, then about PvP, and now it's zeroing in on PvE updates that...
This WoW Classic addon adds AI-generated voiceover to every quest NPC in the game
There is a lot of quest text to read through in World of Warcraft Classic, so the prevailing solution has been to absolutely blitz...
The Daily Grind: Do you turn MMO nameplates off during play?
I'm kind of low-key fascinated with how much we as people can visually filter out the often excessive UI elements in MMORPGs and see...
Mad World outlines updates to its gem system in developer Q&A
If you've ever played any OARPG, you know that socketing gems into equipment is a big part of the character progression process, and that's...
Nexon’s The First Descendent pushes crossplay beta to September – but it’s an open beta now
So we've got some good and bad news for Nexon's next-gen third-person looter shooter The First Descendant today - mostly good, though. Let's start...
Singularity 6 interview: Palia is the cozy cottagecore sandbox to beat as it begins closed beta
The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...
Lord of the Rings Online readies its revamped in-game storefront
Lord of the Rings Online's ancient and creaky in-game store is about to get a high-gloss makeover come next Wednesday. Standing Stone Games announced...
Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Las Vegas: All the big news from the patch 6.5 live letter
Let's not mince words: Final Fantasy XIV has every fan hyped up for the next expansion coming in about a year. But there's more...
ExileCon 2023: Path of Exile 2 introduces dodge rolling and instant weapon/skill swapping
If there is one thing that Grinding Gear Games excels at, it is the meaty info dump! The studio is really great at other...
Star Citizen shares a prototype of its upcoming full ship salvage gameplay
Prototyping gameplay elements is pretty important work, but it's also very often work that's not seen by anyone outside of the studio. However, the...
SSG opens preorders for Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Vecna Unleashed
Dungeons and Dragons Online's update 60 has launched today, but never mind all that: Buy Vecna Unleashed! You think I'm kidding, but that's pretty...
The Soapbox: Why Cryptic’s MMOs are the epitome of comfort gaming
They say you never forget your first kiss. I honestly can't recall much about mine, but I do vividly remember the day that I...
Blizzard promises a fix for Diablo IV’s season battle pass ‘dark pattern’ after widespread player complaints
Among the many complaints that players are leveraging against Diablo IV, one of them is arguably far more serious than class nerfs: a bit...
Lord of the Rings Online just offered a first look at the new Hobbit premium housing
Yesterday, Standing Stone Game's senior world designer Matt "Scenario" Elliot was kind enough to spend an hour showing off my next house in Lord...
PlanetSide 2 adds new implants and construction targeting lasers, heralds double XP weekend
Summer events are reinforced in Daybreak's PlanetSide 2 today with the launch of the July 19th PC update. The release reiterates the ongoing Tides...
Nightingale recaps its most recent playtest and dishes on future plans
So how did playtesting go for Nightingale during its June event? Well, the latest video from Inflexion Games definitely seems pretty positive, although there's...
PvPvE ‘MMO-lite’ Valorbound checks in with updates on models, gear, and its extraction gameplay focus
It has been two years since we heard word about Valorbound, so let us review before we dive in to some of the latest....
