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Dungeons and Dragons Online launches its three new 64-bit servers today [Updated]

The day is finally here that will change Dungeons and Dragons Online forever. SSG is activating three new 64-bit servers this afternoon and encouragin

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-15 0
Blade and Soul Heroes launches globally September 2 following demos at KCON and Gamescom

NCsoft stunned players when it first announced Blade and Soul Heroes during Summer Game Fest in June, and when the studio called it a collectible acti

Bree Royce 2025-07-15 0
Massively OP Podcast Episode 526: A whip, six katanas, and Black Desert love

On this week’s episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree, Carlo, and Justin talk about Black Desert developments, WoWs housing neighborhoods, Guild Wa

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-15 0
The Daily Grind: What constitutes an ‘attention tax’ in MMORPGs?

Earlier this summer, MOPs Tyler casually dropped a term that leaped out at me. In describing gameplay in World of Warcraft, he wrote,
It’s not like th

Bree Royce 2025-07-15 0
Choose My Adventure: Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s old school design choices rear their head

I have attempted to clear the same single quest five times.
I appreciate that on the face of it that statement sounds alarmist or like Im trying to hi

Chris Neal 2025-07-15 0
The Borderlands MMO resurrection team has finally revived a functioning build for the game

So lets recap. The Borderlands series had an MMO, briefly, that was only released in China. It shut down in 2015. Modder and dataminer EpicNNG was det

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-15 0
Zenimax Online Studios union reaffirms support for Blackbird devs as workers roast Xbox execs over A

The splash damage from Microsofts decision to gut its games division, especially the developers behind Zenimax Online Studios formerly in-development

Chris Neal 2025-07-15 0
Star Trek Online invites players to meet DECA and hear about the MMO’s future in tomorrow̵

DECA Games, the new stewards for Star Trek Online and other Cryptic Games MMORPGs after Embracer effectively dissolved the studio last year, hasnt bee

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Moogle tomestone hunts are getting old

When Creative Studio III first announced that Final Fantasy XIV would be moving its patches from hitting after three and a half months to four months,

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-14 0
Albion Online celebrates its eighth anniversary with more giant statue smashing and digital cake

Hey, lookit that, Albion Online is eight years old this week, and it clearly has a very specific type of party it likes to throw to mark the annual mi

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
The Daily Grind: What impressive innovative idea came directly from indie MMOs?

For reasons entirely unrelated to this job, I recently read a paper on indie game development that I keep thinking about. Author Bonnie Ruberg essenti

Bree Royce 2025-07-14 0
Krafton authenticates leaked internal slides that claim Subnautica 2 lacked polish and content

The plot continues to thicken around the Subnautica 2 debacle. As weve been covering for the last week, the release of the multiplayer survivalbox was

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida remarks on content balancing and development missteps

Producer and director Naoki Yoshida usually doesnt make appearances outside of those specifically for Final Fantasy XIV, so to learn that he was invit

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most satisfying way to play an evil character?

In a lot of MMORPGs, the default assumption when you have multiple opposed factions is that every faction is supposed to be justified based on its own

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-13 0
Guild Wars 2 targets August 19 for the return of missing Janthir Wilds voiceover lines

For quite some time now, several NPCs and player characters of Guild Wars 2 have been without any spoken dialogue across Janthir Wilds as a result of

Chris Neal 2025-07-13 0
MMO Hype Train: Does ArenaNet have the gas to make Guild Wars 3?

Like many of you, Ive been watching with interest Guild Wars 2s many recent hints about an upcoming expansion announcement. And while I havent played

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-12 0
MMO Business Roundup: Stop Killing Games, SAG-AFTRA ratifies contract, and Hytale chatter

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And for once, this set of headlines doesnt include CEOs showing off their

Chris Neal 2025-07-12 0
Overwatch 2 is actually hinting at a return to storytelling after its long string of PvE debacles

The rationale for why heroes are shooting each other all over the place in Overwatch 2 can nowadays be summarized by stop thinking about it, enjoy the

Chris Neal 2025-07-12 0
Fallout 76 is planning more crossover content with the second season of the Fallout TV series

Ghouls, vaults, Kyle McLachlan showing off his chops as a villain itd be hard to argue that the Amazon Fallout TV show wasnt a triumph or that it didn

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-11 0
Gachapwned: How to interact with gacha MMOs without letting their vices destroy you

When I initially conceived of Gachapwned, I did so as a limited experiment, and that experiment has now run its course. I did so because as I noted in

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-11 0
‘This needs to be made right’: The Subnautica 2 leads are now suing Krafton

Yesterday, we covered the unfolding drama over in the Subnautica 2 world, as Krafton, which bought Subnautica dev studio Unknown Worlds in 2021, fired

Bree Royce 2025-07-11 0
Final Fantasy XI’s producer discusses archival and preservation for the classic MMORPG

If you have somehow missed the flow of linear time, we hate to be the ones to introduce it, but Final Fantasy XI is old now. Very old. So it makes sen

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-10 0
Vague Patch Notes: No, splitting your MMO into two halves, one with P2E blockchain integration, does

There was no scenario in which I was the target audience for Reaper Actual, but I would never assume that it could have never had an audience. Sure, I

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-10 0
Krafton delays Subnautica 2 into 2026 and axes its management, avoiding a $250M payout [Updated]

Update: As of this afternoon, Krafton has made second and much longer statement than before, and its a doozy. Its tucked down at the end of this post;

Bree Royce 2025-07-10 0
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance interview highlights the devs’ genuine MMORPG ambitions

The resurrection of Blue Protocol as Blue Protocol: Star Resonance might seem like a strange arc for any MMORPG, but now MMO players are getting more

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-03 0

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