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Lord of the Rings Online’s player-run Weatherstock music festival returns July 16
Next week, players of Lord of the Rings Online will come together to rock out at a really tall and important landmark of Middle-earth....
Family of former Ultima Online lead designer and game academic opens college memorial fund in his honor
Back in October of last year, we reported the news that Mike Sellers, best known to our corner of the gaming universe as a...
This year’s Bungie Day celebrates the playerbase of Destiny 2 with cosplay spotlights and emblems
Last year's Bungie Day was about the Destiny 2 developer celebrating 30 years of making games. This year's Bungie Day is a lot more...
MMO Business Roundup: Preservation, charity, modding, memes, and Microsoft’s merger
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business.
Microsoft ABK: It's not just the US digging into Microsoft's...
Modders are making Morrowind and Skyrim into multiplayer co-op titles
We all know that The Elder Scrolls Online is a thing - one that very happily celebrates both Morrowind and Skyrim with some excellent...
From the Depths: Fun World of Warships warships that actually existed
When World of Warships launched in 2015, the historical significance of the many ships researchable and purchasable within the game was taken into heavy...
Final Fantasy XIV fans and official talents join together in singing ‘Close in the Distance’
Ultima Thule in Final Fantasy XIV is a zone with a lot of impact for fans of the game, a lot of emotions running...
Trove’s environmentally conscious Trovin’ and Grovin’ event sees players plant over 800K in-game trees
Regular readers will know that Gamigo has used Trove as a platform to draw attention to and help out reforestation efforts, namely with a...
Tonight’s Champions Online official costume contest challenges players with creating a mascot
What would the mascot outfit for the Millennium City Fighting Catfish look like? That's the kind of question players of Champions Online are being...
Star Citizen and EVE Online unveil a LEGO build-off challenge for prizes and charity
Last December, we spied the Twitter accounts of both Star Citizen and EVE Online trash-talking each other as a result of a fan-built Vulture...
How a typo snowballed into the creation of a Guild Wars 2 in-game romance novelist
Inspiration can strike anywhere. A random thought, a vague plan, or maybe even a twist of fate can sometimes transform into a new character...
RuneScape celebrates Pride Month with a mini-event and a spotlight on a community parade
Pride Month is being marked in RuneScape on both an official and communal capacity this week, with the game's latest newsletter offering a spotlight...
Final Fantasy XIV’s band The Primals shows off its concert (and you can still watch it)
At this point it is pretty redundant for anyone to point out that Final Fantasy XIV has some awesome music throughout, and the Primals...
RuneScape player creates an LED heart light to monitor his character’s health
No matter how much you love your MMORPG, there are always folks who love theirs even more. One Old School RuneScape player was so...
Star Wars fan strives to create the definitive SWTOR documentary
After 15 years of development and a decade of live operation, Star Wars: The Old Republic has quite the storied history under its belt....
Destiny 2’s Bungie says it won’t be ‘muzzled’ by Sony when it comes to ‘standing up for what’s right’
For the last week, we've been covering a WAPO story on the games industry's tepid response for reproductive health rights, which led to a...
Sony subsidiary Insomniac secures new policy, donations for reproductive rights
Last week, we covered a Washington Post article that sharply criticized the gaming industry for its almost complete silence on the likely overturn of...
EverQuest guild woke the Sleeper on P99 Green – and all hell broke loose
If you read our recent Game Archaeologist column on it, you'll know that there's a whole lot of meaningful history behind a slumbering crystalline...
RuneScape details charitable bundles for mental health awareness, OSRS acts on Giants’ Foundry feedback
It's time once again for another bundle of news updates out of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. We start with RuneScape's usual weekly newsletter,...
MapleStory SEA offers up cosmetics, pets, and mounts for blood donations
Have you ever seen a particularly nice cosmetic reward in an MMO and thought to yourself, "Boy, I'd literally give blood for that." If...
