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Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s unusual gift of time
When starting a column, I've found it's always best to kick off with gripping subject matter, so let's talk about scheduling!
Earlier this year, I...
Former Dauntless dev decries Awakening update as ‘blatantly not player focused’
It's not just the veteran players who are extremely upset at the Awakening update for Dauntless; the game's former associate producer Jessie Leigh Gagnon...
Throne and Liberty launches the Startree Solstice event today alongside a cooking revamp
It's patch day for Throne and Liberty as Amazon and NCsoft roll out the planned holiday content, the first Christmas ever for the global...
World of Warcraft shows off the new zone, story, and activities of patch 11.0.7
The next patch for World of Warcraft arrives on December 17th, and it's bringing a storm. Specifically, it's bringing regular storms to the new...
Final Fantasy XI unveils its latest version update for December along with new login rewards
It's not fair that players of Final Fantasy XIV are getting a weekly raid that lets them dress up in outfits from Final Fantasy...
Skull and Bones expands your warehouse and adds more rewards in this week’s update
A pirate with the most loyal crew and swankiest ship might find him or herself at a loss if there's no place to put...
SMITE 2’s last closed alpha patch of 2024 brings three more gods and a Lord of the Rings crossover event
It's time for the last patch for the closed alpha of MOBA SMITE 2, and this one is going out with another set of...
Lost Ark promises an upcoming roadmap and its final update for the year
The good news is that Lost Ark is not only going to release a roadmap for the next few months of game updates, but...
Chronicles of Elyria dev claims development is ‘progressing steadily,’ but no, you can’t see it
When last we heard from Chronicles of Elyria, Soulbound Studio's Jeromy Walsh explained that the company was once again struggling financially and that he...
Black Desert marks 10 years with a livestream and five years on mobile with in-game events
There's a festive atmosphere covering all of the versions of Black Desert, and it's not just because of the season; the MMORPG is ready...
Destiny 2’s seasonal holiday Dawning event launches with a bunch of bugs in tow
Nobody likes to see things go wrong during the holidays, and that definitely includes the players of Destiny 2, who were diving in to...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases update 71: Fall of the Night Brigade
Did you think that you were going to get out of 2024 without becoming a rat? Your number's up, pal, because Dungeons and Dragons...
New World’s Winter Convergence Festival is live with needed nerfs for mounts and the blunderbuss
New World fans waking up this morning will find the world transformed by the snows and festivities of the Christmas-esque Winter Convergence Festival as...
Temtem the MMO has more Steam players than Temtem Swarm despite being in maintenance mode
Last September saw the final content update for Crema Games' "MMO-lite" Temtem, with the game entering into maintenance mode while the studio shifted most...
Heroes of the Storm closes out 2024 with its fourth balancing and bugfixing patch of the year
The tail end of 2023 saw something pleasantly surprising out of Blizzard (for once): A sudden series of patches for its MOBA Heroes of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 497: Walking down the Path of Exile 2
Justin and Bree discuss Path of Exile 2's early access, Elder Scrolls Online weird event snafu, EverQuest's The Outer Brood, and ArcheAge's second sunset of the year, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the normalization of bad MMO monetization and why some gamers melt down over every bit of MMO news.
Star Wars Galaxies Restoration teases new species, a housing deco upgrade, and a combat tree overhaul
Star Wars Galaxies fans always get a little sad every December as it marks the original MMORPG's deathiversary. But we're blessed to have multiple...
Fractured kicks off a Christmas event and permanently boosts glory gains by 33%
You know, we get so few Thanksgiving events in MMORPGs that we could count them on one hand, but for Christmas we get so...
Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday has returned through January 2 with plushie weapons
Guild Wars 2 friends, it's time to head to Divinity's Reach in your festive snow gear because Wintersday has returned to Tyria this afternoon....
World of Warcraft has added a whopping 38,000 quests in 20 years
Here's a fun fact: Originally, Blizzard intended to create only around 100 Horde, 100 Alliance, and 100 neutral quests for World of Warcraft, as...
