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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen dates June pre-alpha and talks about designing its healer classes
Healers. They're arguably the linchpin of a holy trinity MMORPG's party makeup, but playing as one can sometimes speak to a very specific kind...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen delays next pre-alpha to May 20 and takes a look at its refreshed Shaman
Just in case it isn't obvious in that headline, the Shaman class in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen isn't refreshed because it took a...
LOTRO Legendarium: A look back at Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad
When Lord of the Rings Online released Mines of Moria in November 2008, the expansion became one of the most amusedly divisive in the...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen recounts April’s pre-alpha testing and dates next pre-alpha for May 13
The word "pre-alpha" is going to appear a lot in this latest news story from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. That's because the April...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen zeroes in on its mastery progression system in latest video
This weekened delivered a new episode of Parting the Veil from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, which means another hour-long discussion, this one on...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen ramps up enemy health and offers a look at the retooled Dire Lord class
No, Dire Lord isn't the name of a PvP FPS Twitch streamer who says "bruh" unironically; it's a class in Pantheon: Rise of the...
Global Chat: Do MMOs need help from artificial intelligence?
With tech news becoming more and more dominated by the sophistication and place of artificial intelligence, blogger Tobold asks if AI might be the...
Pantheon talks up new crafting and gathering systems, April pre-alpha, and gameplay footage plans
Pantheon's March newsletter has arrived, and with it updates on the game's slow but steady push through pre-alpha.
"We continue to see solid progress on...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen discusses its take on open world design and its effects on gameplay and dungeons
Readers surely already know that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will be an open world MMORPG, which in turn arguably carries quite a lot...
The MOP Up: Wolcen comes to consoles
Action RPG Wolcen is expanding its realms this week as it jumps to consoles on March 15th. Maybe it's time to check out this...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen schedules March pre-alpha test, posts new screenshots
The next round of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's pre-alpha testing is coming next week, Visionary Realms announced. The studio said that it's prepping servers...
Pantheon will test updates to crafting and gathering in this weekend’s pre-alpha
It may not be exciting, but Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has apparently made gobs of progress on infrastructure that is largely invisible to...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite biome type in MMOs?
A while back, Pantheon posted some slides for some of its in-production biome types that caught my attention. Obviously, the mockups are slick, and...
Perfect Ten: 10 dead MMOs that should be revived for a second chance
I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...
Pantheon’s January producer’s letter talks Aridola people, Avendyr’s Pass, and more
Say what you will about Pantheon's long development, but its monthly production newsletters arrive like clockwork. The January missive has now landed, and the...
Pantheon weaves a tale of its latest faction, the Aridola
As Visionary Realms continues to grind away at the development of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, it also is making a play for the...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen discusses development plans for the first portion of 2023
It's a new year and a new lineup of work for the developers of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, which is the primary focus...
The Stream Team: Heading into the newest raid of Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 6.3
Gods revel, lands tremble, and MOP's Chris readies his Dancer for another Final Fantasy XIV livestream. Today, he'll be taking on the recently added...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s first monthly pre-alpha test runs for 24 hours on January 28
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen pledged that it would be running pre-alpha tests every month starting in 2023, and it is holding fast to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...