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Choose My Adventure: Comparing the cash shops of Black Desert Mobile and Villagers & Heroes
I had originally intended this piece to focus on playtime in Villagers & Heroes, but I didn't get in enough to do it justice,...
World of Warcraft brings back the Lunar Festival for another year
When a World of Warcraft holiday rolls around, it's usually the little things that get expanded or changed rather than big ones. Case in point:...
MMO Business Roundup: Tencent, Ubisoft, Rockstar, energy, Creativerse, and Cold Iron Studios
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Tencent: Just before Funcom and Tencent announced the Chinese gaming giant was angling to...
WoW Factor: Oh no, Visions of N’zoth is real bad
Based on a wholly informal poll based on what's going around the community right now, I've compiled most of the agreed-upon positives for the...
WoW Classic’s Alterac Valley is getting camping, premade, and honor changes
Ah, Alterac Valley. You were so much fun in World of Warcraft back in the day! And yet it seemed as if Blizzard was...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMORPG content roadmaps
You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you're a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before...
World of Warcraft took a tumble in SuperData’s December 2019 revenue rankings
SuperData's December 2019 report on the global games industry's monthly revenue is up, and it's a head-scratcher indeed.
On the PC side, there hasn't been...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs in 2020
While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...
Catch up on World of Warcraft’s overall story arc in just one and a half minutes
Yes, you read that title right: This one and a half minute video will get you fully up to speed on World of Warcraft's...
World of Warcraft kicks off the last season of Battle for Azeroth item level increases
We're all still up to date on the fact that World of Warcraft's Visions of N'zoth patch is a bit of a mess, right? Well,...
Nexon exec Jon Jelinek reminisces about WildStar and World of Warcraft
Previous web designer on World of Warcraft and executive producer on WildStar (and now Nexon OC general manager) Jon Jelinek recently sat down for...
Battle Bards Episode 160: MMO cover songs vol. 2
For the first time since Episode 50, the Battle Bards crew returns to the theme of cover songs of MMO tracks. Several extremely musicians...
The Game Archaeologist: Super-early versions of MMORPG websites
One of the absolute best things the internet ever generated has been the Internet Wayback Machine. Through this site, snapshots of millions of websites...
One Shots: Abusing emote spam
Emotes: They're a privilege, not a right. Well, they actually come pretty standard in most online games, so I guess they're more or less...
Global Chat: Why player representation in games matters
The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...
World of Warcraft’s Visions of N’Zoth is kind of a ‘horrific’ mess – where’s the old ‘Blizzard Polish’?
One popular World of Warcraft YouTuber is calling this past week's Visions of N'Zoth Blizzard's "buggiest patch ever" as a result of the WoW...
New World just took a hard turn away from a PvP slugfest, and hardcore PvPers are not happy
Even knowing it was slated to arrive, I was still surprised last night when Amazon Game Studios dropped New World's latest dev blog well...
WoW Factor: There is (not) much to do in World of Warcraft
Here's a fun question for you: How do you count discrete activities in World of Warcraft? It's a more complex concept than you might...
World of Warcraft bundles its new Year of the Rat mount, Squeakers, in with a six-month subscription
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an effort to distract you from what will no doubt be at...
Hearthstone previews Galakrond’s Awakening adventures, Overwatch brings on the Year of the Rat event
It's time for Blizzard game news that doesn't involve WoW! No, I'm not writing about anything new from Diablo III. That'd just be silly....
