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Global Chat: Giddy over SWTOR’s Dark Descent
For MMO blogs that only cover a single game, an announcement of an upcoming content release is like a mini-Christmas all to itself. This...
Final Fantasy XI gears up for a lighter patch in April
The bad news for Final Fantasy XI fans is that the next version update for the game in early April will be a little bit...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO social hubs overrated?
MMO reader Random recently winged us an article from Kotaku arguing for the abolishment of pointless social hubs in video games. "Here’s a radical...
Aliens Fireteam devs discuss City of Heroes’ lasting popularity and Cryptic’s canceled Marvel MMO
Earlier this month, we finally got some hard info on Cold Iron's Aliens Fireteam, the Alien-franchise shooter that's been under wraps for six years...
RIFT’s 10th birthday is here, but it ignores the elephant in the room
With the desperate, frenzied actions of a parent trying to redirect a kid's attention away from tragedy, Gamigo invites one and all to RIFT's...
Destiny 2 outlines the return of Grandmaster Nightfalls and upcoming Stasis PvP adjustments
The next couple of weeks in Destiny 2 are going to be interesting, depending on players' point of view or preferred activity. The latest...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 sanctions unorthodox raiding
Just because the devs think you're going to play the game one way doesn't mean that players aren't going to pour a whole lot...
Final Fantasy XI rolls out new Voracious Resurgence content and a new Odyssey foe
The March version update has arrived for Final Fantasy XI, and that means players can face off against a new foe in Sheol: Gaol as...
Perfect Ten: Ten things that killed me in Final Fantasy XI
In many ways, Final Fantasy XI was a designed copy of EverQuest. It did, however, remove a lot of the elements of that game in particular....
The Daily Grind: Do you miss free return events in MMORPGs?
Eliot was writing a piece about Final Fantasy XI's return home event a week or two ago and I suddenly had a pang of...
One Shots: Never crowd surf over cats with claws
If you ever find yourself at a heavy metal concert where most of the crowd is made out of bestial cat-things, trust me: Don't...
MMO Business Roundup: Theorycraft, My.Games, the FIFA fixing lawsuit, and Roblox’s latest concert
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Theorycraft: Could you found a new games studio on $37.5M? Yeah, probably. A bunch...
Final Fantasy XI announces more Voracious Resurgence and the pinnacle of Odyssey for March
Is March the cruelest month in Final Fantasy XI? You might not think so, but consider that players will be forced to contend with the...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO sunsets and the myth of meritocracy
A few weeks back, I talked about why a given MMO might have failed even when it possessed good qualities. It was a response...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 311: The day the MMOs died
Justin and Bree discuss Anthem Next's demise, Defiance and Gamigo's MMO purge, DDO's big news, Black Desert's free-play, Riot's MMO, and mobile Warcraft, with adventures in LOTRO, City of Heroes, WoW Classic, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on post subs, Valheim, and MMOs as they used to be.
Guild Wars 2’s ‘Balance’ episode launches March 9 – here’s the new trailer
Guild Wars 2 next big thing - Season 5: The Icebrood Saga: Episode 5: Champions: Chapter 3: Balance - is launching next week. ArenaNet...
Massively Uplifting: Love and generosity in Sea of Thieves, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, and more
February is often known as the commercialized month of love (Happy Hallmark Day!), but that doesn't mean there wasn't genuine love abounding throughout the...
Destiny 2 promises an end to Infusion caps, new PvP balancing, armor transmog, and cross-play in 2021
The fact that Bungie is expanding its operations in support of Destiny 2 should tell you that the studio has plans for the game,...
Leaderboard: So, is RIFT next?
Gamigo, which just bought the studio behind Wizard101 and Pirate101, cleaned house yesterday, purging multiple MMORPGs that it acquired during its past acquisitions of...
Eden Eternal becomes the third MMORPG Gamigo killed off today
Right about now, a whole bunch of Gamigo MMORPGs are wishing they had to deal with only server merges. That's because Gamigo's now axed...
