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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite toy in an MMORPG?

When the first expansion for World of Warcraft introduced flight form for Druids, people discovered a number of bombing techniques in which Druids cou

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-15 0
RuneScape fans push back against Jagex’s abrupt abandonment of Pride with their own events

Earlier this week, when we reported on how Jagex elected to wind back Pride events in RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, we noted how initial reactio

Chris Neal 2025-06-14 0
LOTRO Legendarium: How music binds the LOTRO community together

Whenever Im reading through JRR Tolkiens Middle-earth novels, one thing that absolutely pops out at me is the Professors love of song. Music isnt just

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-14 0
The Daily Grind: How do you best like to contribute to an MMO group?

When I was in fifth grade, we had a huge war of freeze tag that went on every recess break for a couple months. Our class split into two factions, and

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-14 0
Black Desert spawns more moles on PC, launches events on console, and opens new areas on mobile

You guessed it: Its another week of completely random-sounding additions to all three versions of Black Desert. That also means that we promise to con

Chris Neal 2025-06-13 0
Wizard101 introduces its first ever eight-player raid with the Ghastly Conspiracy update

Its still a bit interesting to consider that a game like Wizard101 has raids in it, but indeed it does; two of them in fact! And now it has a third wi

Chris Neal 2025-06-13 0
Not So Massively: Immortal Gates of Pyre’s latest demo adds new immortal and more PvE content

The recent Steam Next Fest included the latest demo from StarCraft II inspired multiplayer RTS Immortal: Gates of Pyre. This demo included several pie

Tyler F.M. Edwards 2025-06-13 0
Cozy co-op sandbox Aloft is refining combat and adding puzzle trapdoors and rotating wall mechanics

At Summer Game Fests Best Indie Games Showcase, multiplayer survival sandbox Aloft the one we previewed just a few months ago announced a juicy new

Bree Royce 2025-06-13 0
World of Warcraft posts update notes for next week’s Legacy of Arathor

World of Warcraft players looking for a summer vacation from The War Within will soon get their wish thanks to next weeks update. Patch notes are alre

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-13 0
Palia’s Radiant Rising update arrived with a ton of new quest content – and the Free Rea

As promised, Palias Radiant Rising update dropped for beta players yesterday afternoon, with a whole raft of content and quality-of-life revisions. Le

Bree Royce 2025-06-13 0
Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness

Over the past three weeks of the Gachapwned column, weve talked about the three main prongs that keep people invested in gacha games in the longer ter

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-13 0
MMO Hype Train: What’s the ideal path to promoting and hyping an MMO?

As much as theres a great deal to master when creating an MMORPG, theres also quite the learning experience when it comes to promoting an upcoming tit

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-13 0
The Daily Grind: Does your MMORPG friend list look like a graveyard?

A throwaway comment on Reddit the other day made me vicariously sad: A player named IVRYN posted about those dudes you have on your friend list who wa

Bree Royce 2025-06-13 0
Fans of The Secret World classic plan 13th anniversary celebration with new ARG

The 13th anniversary of the launch of the original incarnation of The Secret World is a few weeks away, and die-hard fans are planning another in-game

Tyler F.M. Edwards 2025-06-12 0
Aion’s big 4.0 update arrives next week with Luminess class and level cap increase

Its kind of crazy to realize that its taken until 2025 for Aion to produce an action mage class, but thats exactly what its (finally) getting with nex

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-12 0
MapleStory’s Stargazer patch introduces the new Sia Astelle job and the new Oort region

The Oort Cloud is thought to be a cloud of icy matter that exists on the outer boundary of the solar system. First proposed by Dutch astronomer Jan Oo

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-12 0
Throne and Liberty moves into the next phase of its Road to Raid gear-up event

Boy does Throne & Liberty want you to raid these days. In fact, it wants you to raid so much that its created a special gear-up Road to Raid event to

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-12 0
GTA Online will introduce money laundering mechanics in the Money Fronts update June 17

Gamers now have a very long wait until Rockstar Games finishes its next big open world crime caper, so what are they to do in the meantime? Why not a

Chris Neal 2025-06-12 0
Dune Awakening tackles backend stability and bugs as Steam concurrency crests 140K

Yep, were checking in on Dune: Awakenings first couple of days of life again, only this time its for the actual real launch instead of the high-dollar

Chris Neal 2025-06-12 0
The Quinfall adds a new party finder and the Zenith Conquest system with its latest patch

At long last, you will no longer find your dungeon activities in The Quinfall derailed by spamming chat looking for another party member. The games mo

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-12 0
Pax Dei’s Verse 3 has arrived with a world reset and major revamps for the world and crafting

Early access sandbox Pax Dei has officially delivered its Verse 3 update this week as promised. Servers were offline most of yesterday for the update,

Bree Royce 2025-06-12 0
Warframe previews its next major update, Isleweaver, arriving on June 25

Major Neci Rusalka has managed to invade Duviri and shes brought the Murmur with her. That sentence might sound insane and unapproachable to people wh

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-12 0
Massively on the Go: Mario Kart World is too big for mobile

Its with heavy heart that I note the recently released Switch 2s Mario Kart World just feels too big to be experienced on the portable screen. Admitte

Andrew Ross 2025-06-12 0
Progress Bar: We demo’d eight Steam Next Fest games that multiplayer fans should check out

Ah, Steam Next Fest. A smorgasbord of sketchy titles and hentai games. I kid (mostly), its also a great way to experience some all-new, new-to-you, or

Chris Neal 2025-06-12 0
First Impressions: Chrono Odyssey feels like a jankier New World

Ahead of its publicly available beta on June 20th, MassivelyOP was granted an early peak at Chrono Odysseys current by the folks Kakao Games, and I go

Tyler F.M. Edwards 2025-06-12 0

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