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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...
Raph ‘Designer Dragon’ Koster reminisces on 25 years of Ultima Online
While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...
Undead Labs partners with The Coalition to make State of Decay 3
After a long run with State of Decay 2, Undead Labs is moving forward with the next game in its zombie survival franchise. First...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Second Extinction, State of Survival, and Path of Titans
Welcome to a quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent titles that have been hanging out in our newsroom waiting for someone to write...
WoW Classic’s abruptly started Zombie Plague event is already over
Last Friday night, the WoW Classic servers experienced some unexpected timing for its Scourge Invasion event, with the whole affair starting off hours ahead...
Perfect Ten: Recent promising MMOs that died before they were born
Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...
Project Zomboid improves multiplayer features, adds new recipes, and applies balance tweaks
At the beginning of the year we cast a spotlight on Project Zomboid, an in-development isometric survivalbox with - surprise - zombies in it....
Global Chat: Changing opinions about WoW’s dungeon finder
With the dungeon finder being left out of Wrath Classic, it's caused more than a few players to re-evaluate the pros and cons of...
Not So Massively: First impressions of Diablo Immortal on PC
There was a time when the release of a new Diablo game might have been a big deal for me. But I've never been...
NetEase Connect unveils a cavalcade of new titles and updates to existing games for PC and mobile
Earlier this month, publisher NetEase announced a special event known as NetEase Connect that would showcase new games and updates to existing games. Now...
Perfect Ten: The many-colored dragon rainbow of the MMO sphere
Dragons are ubiquitous. When I wrote a Perfect Ten describing every single MMO bestiary, I noted that no matter what game you're playing, no...
Perfect Ten: Why we need more post-apocalyptic MMOs
Ever since playing the original Wasteland back in the late '80, I've had a high fascination with post-apocalyptic settings. Yet it's not been the...
The ‘death by a thousand papercuts version of sexism’ engulfed State of Decay studio Undead Labs, according to new expose
Earlier today, Kotaku ran an expose of Undead Labs, best known for the State of Decay franchise and now housed under no less than...
Fortnite adds an extra Zero Build battle royale mode that eliminates building functions altogether
Remember when Fortnite was originally a PvE game about building forts to survive waves of zombies? And then it got changed to a battle...
Choose My Adventure: Why does The Secret World feel so bad to play?
The Secret World is a good game. A great one, even. It’s worthy of all of the praise and adoration it gets from its...