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MMO Week in Review: FFXIV’s cheaters, NCsoft’s layoffs
Cheaters did their best to spoil this week in MMOs as Final Fantasy XIV was ensnared by a scandal over players using forbidden plugins...
MMO Week in Review: Necrom, Refractions, and Blizzard’s latest blunder
Elder Scrolls Online kicked off the end of January with its reveal of Shadow Over Morrowind, the Necrom chapter, and the Scribes of Fate...
MMO Week in Review: The NetEase-Blizzard fireworks show
World of Warcraft players got an extra dose of fireworks for Lunar New Year this week as NetEase clapped back at Blizzard, which apparently...
MMO Week in Review: FFXIV 6.3, Smed, and the end of The Repopulation
Final Fantasy XIV's Gods Revel, Lands Tremble released this week, introducing a new dungeon, trials, storyline, and island sanctuary expansions in the first big...
MMO Week in Review: New year’s worries for WoW, ESO, and Lost Ark
The first week of the year may be quiet for MMOs, but we're not: This week, we bottled hype for Final Fantasy XIV's impending...
MMO Week in Review: Hello to the MMOs of 2023
The last week of the year is never huge on news, but we still had some bright spots - chief among them being the...
MMO Week in Review: Gamigo, WoW’s roadmap, and XIV 6.3
The week before Christmas is often a dumping ground for news studios need to offload before they go on break, and this week was...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2022
It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...
MMO Week in Review: Metzen, WoW’s trading post, and the new ESO strategy
World of Warcraft continued making waves all week: Blizzard announced a new trading post feature that doesn't sound half bad, Chris Metzen returned as a...
MMO Week in Review: Blue Protocol, Blizzard, and the Black Desert ball
Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards played host to a number of big announcements for MMO fans this week, including the news that Amazon is...
MMO Week in Review: Catching an early Dragonflight
World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion officially launched this week, setting players up for a holiday season of flying dragons and new zones to explore....
MMO Week in Review: Crowfall closes, Camelot collects coin
One game enters, one game exits, another game... malingers. Camelot Unchained, Kickstarted almost 10 years ago, announced that it's received another $15M in outside...
MMO Week in Review: Corporate greed was China’s WoW killer
The second Dragonflight prepatch wave in World of Warcraft was rather overshadowed this week by the not unexpected but still disturbing news that Blizzard...
MMO Week in Review: Last stand in Lion’s Arch
Guild Wars 2 finished out its season one reboot with a bang this week thanks to the release of episode five, which tasks players...
MMO Week in Review: A fresh start for New World
New World took off again this week with the launch of its fresh start servers, pushing Amazon Games to open dozens of new servers...
MMO Week in Review: Halloween, Brimstone Sands, and the Dragonflight prepatch
It's Halloween here in MMO land, which means it's damn near impossible to avoid candy corn, pumpkins, and spoopy jokes. But if you try hard,...
MMO Week in Review: To Brimstone Sands with 65K friends
New World is officially back on the map this week with the launch of Brimstone Sands that brought queues and new servers as players...
MMO Week in Review: Embers Adrift vs. the hot messes of Elyria and Aria
This week in MMOs, we had a pile of bad news: Legends of Aria's blockchain version changed its token and its name, and Chronicles...
MMO Week in Review: Overwatch Boo
It's obviously not an MMO, but take two for the MMO once planned as Project Titan didn't go to plan this week. Blizzard's Overwatch...
MMO Week in Review: The launch of Dual Universe
The MMORPG genre welcomed a new game this week - a Kickstarted one, no less - as Dual Universe officially opened its doors for...
