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The Daily Grind: Does MMO inventory weight add immersion?
In a recent Pantheon developer livestream, the team announced that it was going to give coins in the game weight to add to the...
Pantheon’s devs talk about coin weight, user interface, and climbing
Even from home, the Pantheon team is pushing forward with its efforts to bring this fantasy MMORPG to fruition. Four of the team got...
EverQuest is adding two new time-locked progression servers, Aradune and Rizlona, launching May 27
If you like to hop back to the olden days of EverQuest, to feel the game evolve from launch to very slightly after launch,...
Pantheon’s unique monster races are absolutely horrifying – in the best way
February and March have been pretty busy months for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. Don't believe us? Then just take a peek at the...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen shows off the Shaman and discusses the mastery system
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has put out another livestream this week, with this one being all about the Shaman class and its various...
Overwatch tests Echo while Heroes of the Storm preps ancient Greece event
It's been a homecoming long in the making, but finally Echo is arriving in Overwatch. The game's 32nd hero is currently on the test...
Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be
"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen discusses stats balancing, character models for next pre-alpha
The numbers game of an MMORPG is pretty vital, especially one where stats, levels, and other sorts of numerical progression are concerned. Pantheon: Rise...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on funding, development, launch, and business models
Upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia has been somewhat dark over the last year as its developers hunkered down to develop rather than hype. But...
RuneScape patches in quality-of-life and asks players to fill out a survey
This week in RuneScape is pretty tame overall as far as updates go. There is the Double XP Weekend Extended happening, of course, but...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen takes a tour of the Faerthale region in a livestream
That Faerthale gameplay look we were promised has arrived. The new area is the focus of the latest livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the...
Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...
Pantheon promises Faerthale gameplay look ‘soon’
Due to the passing of Brad McQuaid, the future of Pantheon may feel uncertain to some players who were hoping that this PvE MMO...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs deserve fresh spiritual successors?
A lot of time whenever the subject of MMORPG sequels arise, the thought is for the same studio to make a proper successor with...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen shares the Living Codex UI, patch notes, and the Murk
The most recent livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen offered a couple of looks behind the curtain on some of the work being...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMORPG content roadmaps
You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you're a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
The Daily Grind: What was the most innovative MMO of 2019?
Many years ago, we used to give an award for the most innovative MMO. It fell by the wayside as we expanded our awards...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
