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Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies
Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...
Tencent’s Undawn, an open-world survival RPG starring Will Smith, launches globally
If you want to get your new open world survival RPG noticed against the ever-expanding field of competitors, you need to have some sort...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter buffs its companion healing factor by up to 100%
Neverwinter's medically minded companions received a massive infusion of green numbers this past week, as Cryptic buffed those particular pets by a significant amount.
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The MOP Up: Netmarble and Take-Two finances are powered by MMOs
We have a couple more earnings reports to, er, report to you today. Netmarble's Q1 2023 financials reported $472.4M in revenue, with MMORPGs making...
Will Smith headlines Tencent’s mobile survival MMO Undawn, launching June 15
Tencent's Level Infinite and LightSpeed Studios have announced today that Undawn is coming in June - June 15th, to be exact. The post-apoc open-world...
Choose My Adventure: DDO’s Catacombs offer a classic taste of the MMOs storytelling
Let me start this week's Choose My Adventure on something of a tangent - a parallel one, but a tangent nonetheless. If it wasn't...
Snag a new-player starter pack key for mobile MMORTS Viking Rise
Here's a new one to us: IGG's mobile MMORTS Viking Rise, which is very much giving off those Game of Thrones vibes with its...
Choose My Adventure: Dungeons and Dragons Online immediately brings that tabletop goodness
It's still early days for this month's run of Choose My Adventure, but even so I can pretty much immediately confirm my earlier suspicions:...
Choose My Adventure: The Songblade makes Neverwinter’s Bard rock even harder
Most of the time when I'm beaten over the head by an MMORPG's meta, I tend to thumb it in the eye and tacitly...
Grab a new-player survivor pack key for IGG’s Doomsday: Last Survivors
If you've got a soft spot for the ol' zombie survival games that used to be everywhere and then dried up, IGG's Android-and-iPhone Doomsday...
EG7 Q4 2022: Revenues are up thanks to mobile as LOTRO sees ‘mainstream resurgence’
Enad Global 7's Q4 2022 investor report dropped over the weekend, with a recap of the year for Swedish games corp EG7 and its...
One Shots: Once upon a tavern…
Stop me if you've heard this before: A group of hardy adventurers arrives in a charming yet rough-hewn tavern to map out their future...
One Shots: Looking forward to a rainy day
Is there anything as agonizingly tantalizing as receiving a gift that's for a very specific situation? You can't wait to use it, but it...
One Shots: The best player-submitted MMO screenshots of 2022
For our very last One Shots column of 2022, we're going to take a break from the routine to hand out awards to our...
Steam’s winter sale offers many deep discounts on FFXIV, Elder Scrolls Online, New World and more
If you're not already broke from buying presents this holiday season, why not treat yourself to the annual gamer gluttony that is the Steam...
Fractured Veil announces plans for early access next year and recounts 2022’s slew of updates
Back in October 2021, the zombie-scented (ew) survival sandbox Fractured Veil heralded plans for a 2022 early access launch, complete with a trailer. We...
EG7 Q3 2022: LOTRO’s monthly active players are up 11% compared to last year
If you can pull your eyes away from the Activision-Blizzard/NetEase trainwreck that unfolded overnight, then we've got a blast of new financial news for...
Former ArenaNet co-founder Jeff Strain opens second game studio called Crop Circle Games
At this point it seems like Jeff Strain, one of the former co-founders of Guild Wars ArenaNet, is really eager to launch all of...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….
Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...
One Shots: Fresh from the portal of death
When he stepped through the portal and toward a brand-new world, this Dwarf didn't realize that he'd be disintegrated -- and an identical copy...