winter holiday 2024
The Daily Grind: Does your MMO have a ‘Pre-Searing’ experience you keep coming back to?
Over the holidays, inspired entirely by Carlo's reminiscing on the game, I logged into Classic Guild Wars to thumb through my characters and see...
Working As Intended: Playing house – er, apartment – in SWG Legends
This week, I'm starting up a new miniseries called Playing House here in the Working As Intended column, and it's entirely the fault of...
LOTRO Legendarium: MOP’s guide to unlocking Lord of the Rings Online content in 2025
While Lord of the Rings Online is a tremendous MMORPG that I would recommend to anyone in a heartbeat, I won't deny that its...
One Shots: Pretty please give me those pretty spaceships
It's a new year of community screenshots here at One Shots Incorporated (that's right, we're now a soulless corporation with algorithms and AI and...
ASKA celebrates Yule with festive trees, pushes back some updates, and promises a roadmap
It's been a minute since we've peeked in on the Viking-themed colony survival title ASKA, but that's primarily because the game has just recently...
Pixel sandbox Necesse brings swamps and Christmas raps to your home this holiday season
Base builder Necesse didn't cruise into the holidays without tossing a present in the shape of a patch your way. Version 0.29 arrived on...
The Stream Team: Post-Christmas construction in Kallax
A time-honored tradition after unwrapping Christmas gifts is... assembling the presents! But Massively OP's MJ doesn't have anything to assemble, so in order to...
The Stream Team: Comparing MMO Yule Logs for Christmas
Did you expect an action-packed adventure on Christmas Day? Sorry, Massively OP's MJ plans to just sit by a blazing fire and relax with...
Blade & Soul hosts a Silver Bells Christmas event, Lineage II hands out free holiday goodie boxes
Who's ready for some more free Christmas presents in a couple of NCsoft MMORPGs? Did you raise your hand, there, little Timothy? Then you're...
The Stream Team: Christmas Eve capers in Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday
Last-minute shopping? No thank you! Massively OP's MJ will get all her holiday PvP needs met in Guild Wars 2's Snowball Mayhem. She'll also...
The Stream Team: Soaking up the Christmas cheer in Final Fantasy XIV’s Starlight celebration
It's that time of year again for MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew. It's the Starlight holiday season in Final Fantasy XIV and...
The Daily Grind: Do you enjoy wearing winter outfits in MMOs during the holidays?
With winter setting in and Christmas right around the corner, there's no better time in my opinion to be wrapping up your virtual avatar...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has kicked off the Wookiee Life Day festival
If there's one event that Star Wars Galaxies always did in the most ridiculous way imaginable, it's... OK, actually, it's the Ewok Festival of...
MapleStory’s second portion of The Dark Ride adds new boss, Dark Maplemas, and more XP bonuses
MapleStory players already knew that The Dark Ride update was broken up into two halves, so the fact that this week brought more of...
Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends
There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...
There’s still no ETA for the return of Corepunk’s servers, but there are test shards up now
We probably don't need to reiterate what dreadfully bad luck it is to have your early access MMORPG offline the whole week before Christmas,...
World of Warcraft previews the features of its Undermined update as Winter Veil brings the Christmas spirit
The time is almost here when World of Warcraft players will get to experience Goblin Nar Shadaa, aka the city of Undermine, in patch...
Winter holiday events around the MMORPG world, 2024 edition
As the year winds down, it's a good time to throw another log on the virtual fireplace, heat up your favorite beverage, and settle...
Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to the ongoing alpha 3.24.3
CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it...
EverQuest Online Adventures rogue server Sandstorm celebrates Christmas
Are you ready for some classic low-poly holiday cheer? Then you're in luck because the EverQuest Online Adventures rogue server Sandstorm has kicked off...
