year in review

We're finally coming to our recap of the last month of 2023 and the end of this recap series with our poke into December,...

November played host to BlizzCon, the first in-person show for Blizzard in years, and while overall it wasn't spectacular, World of Warcraft fans were...

New World opened the gates of its Rise of the Angry Earth expansion this month, driving its servers and queues to capacity all over...

Daybreak parent company EG7 attempted to woo investors in September with nebulous plans for a new EverQuest MMORPG, perhaps the long-rumored EverQuest III -...

August hasn't always been a month for major MMO launches, but 2023 certainly didn't disappoint, with Guild Wars 2's expansion Secrets of the Obscure...

Final Fantasy XIV unveiled its next expansion, Dawntrail, in July of this year, setting in motion what we expect will be a full year...

I did not have a good 2023. (Trust me, unless you're a personal friend, you don't know the half of it.) But now the...

Elder Scrolls Online launched its Necrom expansion in June, sending players both to mainland Morrowind and to the spooky realm of Hermaeus Mora. Meanwhile, Swords...

May brought interesting news for fans of Lord of the Rings, as Amazon and Embracer announced that they're working on yet another LOTR MMORPG,...

Trouble continued brewing at Activision-Blizzard in April as UK regulators made clear their intent to impede Microsoft's acquisition, Blizzard MAUs and revenues sank in...

The bloodbath across the industry continued in March with layoffs at everything from EA and Disney to CCP Games and Twitch - and the...

Amazon Games continued expanding its games publishing arm in February of this year, owing to the anticipated announcement that it would be taking on...

The end of the year means time to look forward to where we're going - but also to look back at where our genre...

December used to be one of those months when nothing happened, but the last few years, companies have treated December like the after-business-hours-on-a-Friday dumping...

At the tail end of this month, World of Warcraft released the Dragonflight expansion, the full weight of which wasn't really felt until December....

New World picked October to launch its comeback with the Brimstone Sands launch that drove concurrency with a new leveling experience, zone, and weapon...

September was dominated by the ramp up of WoW Classic into its Wrath of the Lich King expansion launch, which was marred by entirely...

Funcom took the wraps off DUNE Awakening at Gamescom in August as the studio returned to calling the game an "open world survival MMO." Meanwhile,...

New World, which had been suffering playerbase losses all year, began its resurge in July of 2022, thanks to its Medleyfaire update and event,...

Every year I go through the same cycle wherein I forget that eggnog doesn't sit well with me any more, so I buy eggnog...