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MMO Week in Review: Smedleyfaire
Amazon's New World released its Summer Medleyfaire update this week, prompting its highest player counts of the summer and stanching the playerbase bleed since...
MMO Week in Review: Like clockwork
Guild Wars 2's Clockwork Chaos episode released this week, reintroducing the polarizing villain Scarlet Briar to a whole new generation of living world players.
Meanwhile,...
MMO Week in Review: Soulframe, Dragonflight, and Unity
Warframe's Digital Extremes stole the MMO show this week, not with Warframe but with Soulframe, the company's next MMORPG.
Meanwhile, World of Warcraft began Dragonflight's...
MMO Week in Review: That billboard
The now-infamous Final Fantasy XIV ERP-club billboard was live only a few days, but that was more than enough to prompt the MMORPG community...
MMO Week in Review: RIP TERA
The western MMO fanbase said farewell to TERA this week as Bluehole forced Gameforge to shut it down for good, making it one of...
MMO Week in Review: WoW’s salvaged expansion cadence
Blizzard raised eyebrows this week by putting a launch window on World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion that is much sooner than anyone expected given...
MMO Week in Review: Dragonslayer
Neverwinter released its Dragonslayer module this week on both PC and console, getting the universe one step closer to fulfilling somebody's monkey's paw wish...
MMO Week in Review: High adventure in ESO High Isle
Elder Scrolls Online released High Isle this week, sending MMORPG players on PC into its yearly chapter to confront pirates, brigands, cultists, and worst...
MMO Week in Review: Do you guys not have wallets?
Welp, Diablo Immortal finally launched, and it's everything you'd expect from a Blizzard mobile title, which is to say, there's apparently a decent game...
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak terminates another Marvel MMO
Whether you're all broken up over Daybreak's canceled Marvel MMORPG probably depends on a few things, like maybe you're tired of Marvel, or maybe...
MMO Week in Review: V Rising is looking for new blood
V Rising stole the spotlight this week with its early access launch; its vampire theme has captivated sandbox fans.
Plus, we poked our noses back...
MMO Week in Review: Spreadsheets in diversity space
Activision-Blizzard proved we really need a stronger term for "self-own" and "own-goal" in the English language as this week it attempted to demonstrate its...
MMO Week in Review: Spreadsheets in space in spreadsheets
EVE Fanfest announced one hell of a meme-made-real for fans this weekend with the revelation that it's teaming up with Microsoft for Excel integrations...
MMO Week in Review: Activision-Blizzard’s decline by the numbers
So, uh... yeah things aren't going so hot for Activision, Blizzard, or Activision-Blizzard, except for King, which is just peachy. ATVI's Q1 2022 investor...
MMO Week in Review: 3/5 LFM need heals and tank PST link achieves no noobs
World of Warcraft announced Dragonflight this week, along with a LFD-less Wrath Classic that whipped the wider MMORPG community into a froth over the...
MMO Week in Review: Lord British, High Isle, and losing the housing lottery
The MMORPG industry came full circle this week as one of the original founders of the genre pitched another new game - laden with...
MMO Week in Review: Wargaming leaves Russia, Jagex hikes subs
We hope you like MMO industry news as much as the fun stuff because we got a whole lot of it this week: Wargaming...
MMO Week in Review: Dragonflight, the Jade Sea, and Eternal Winter
The MMO world is reeling this weekend from the apparently inadvertent Blizzard website leak of World of Warcraft's next expansion, which appears to be...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s fertile future
Guild Wars 2 dropped a ton of good news this week: It promised a new expansion, said End of Dragons has outsold Path of...
MMO Week in Review: Monetization lessons from LOTRO and EVE
This week in MMOs saw two stories that really tell opposite tales when it comes to monetization. Lord of the Rings Online came out...
