No time for love, Doctor Jones, but there’s always time to plunder a newly discovered ancient tomb in Star Wars: The Old Republic! We begin our One Shots column today wheezing and coughing at all of the dust that Lucky Jinx kicked up in the latest pursuit of some Sith Artifact or maybe a Hello […]

As I type this, we’re at the top of January and waiting for two events that should be happening in the WoW Classic space this month. The first is the Burning Crusade Anniversary prepatch on January 13th, which will reshape the systems of those servers and open up some more character options. But the second […]

Whether furry, feathery, or scaly, a little pet can offer a boon of companionship, even in a virtual setting. Sure, not everyone’s into collecting and displaying vanity pets, but those people are defective and will be picked up by our thoughtcrimes unit soon for reprogramming. As for the rest of us, let’s boast about and […]

Eterspire, the delightfully charming little MMO that recently took our Indie MMORPG of the Year award, revealed that it had its best year ever in 2025. In fact, the cross-platform title claimed that it started last year with 90,000 registered and is now nearing a cool half-million, with a sizable bump happening in Discord members […]

One of WoW Classic’s big movers-and-shakers hinted that he’s deeply involved with some big stuff behind closed doors — projects that might portend to the Classic Plus experience that fans hope to hear announced this year. Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield wrote a lengthy post on Twitter sharing his shift in roles from game production to game […]

While the indie devs at Loftia studio Qloud Games initially thought that it only would take three months to build the game from scratch, the truth is that it’s taken over three years (and 28 additional developers) to bring this Kickstarted solarpunk MMO to bear. Tackling the question of Loftia’s release schedule, the team said that […]

Fresh on the heels of its 2026 roadmap, Lost Ark is preparing to unleash its first patch of the year on January 14th. In the latest dev video, the team talked up the “extreme” Thaemine raid that’s been adjusted from the Korean version to match the current playerbase. The team also encouraged players to collect […]

By now, World of Warcraft fans are used to the multi-stage format that Blizzard employs to roll out its expansions. It’s never a one-and-done affair, is it? There’s the prepatch, the launch, and post-launch content and season unlocks. This time around, however, the studio added an extra stage in early December with the debut of […]

Ahhh… can you smell that new house scent? It’s an aroma laced with fragrances of potential, creativity, and belonging. That’s right, player housing is now a reality in World of Warcraft, and although this is only early access and the initial iteration of the system, there’s a ton of room for players to claim and […]

In perhaps one of the quietest expansion releases to date, Lord of the Rings Online welcomed Kingdoms of Harad today. This marks the third and final installment of the Song of Waves and Wind cycle that began back in Corsairs of Umbar. “The Kingdoms of Harad stand at a crossroads, their rivalries sharpening as a […]

If you anticipated that the debut of player housing in World of Warcraft would be a hot mess, then prepare to be validated because it totally was. Last night’s launch of Patch 11.2.7 prompted a predictable stampede of players who couldn’t teleport into the housing district or change neighborhoods for lengthy periods of time. Bugs […]

It feels like we’ve been dancing around this maddening question for decades now: What makes MMORPGs so compelling, addicting, and immersive? What is that “special sauce” that’s hooked us for a long time now? There are a few contenders for answers. Perhaps it’s the interaction between a “massively multiplayer” community that gathers in a virtual […]

Justin and Bree discuss WoW Midnight, Gloria Victis' revival, the Cryptic mess, Neverwinter, and Albion Online, with a run-down of all the cool stuff coming in early December (WoW's housing, LOTRO Kingdoms of Harad, EverQuest Shattering of Ro, Destiny 2 Renegades, Guild Wars Reforged, along with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, plus a mailbag topic on predatory MMO monetization.

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Where were you when you first heard about the original Guild Wars? For me, it was late 2004 when the online gaming world was entranced with World of Warcraft. I was reading through a games magazine that posted a whole spread on this new project that some outfit called ArenaNet was making. What caught my […]

With the revival of Ubisoft-shuttered The Crew earlier this fall with a rogue server called The Crew Unlimited, it really felt like the scoreboard was Players 1, Heartless Gaming Corp 0. But that score could’ve changed drastically in a few years due to a game-ending bug that was tied to the year 2029. In the […]

Although there’s been some question about whether Lord of the Rings Online: Kingdoms of Harad was going to hit its expected December 3rd release date, it looks as though things are a “go” for the latest expansion in this Middle-earth virtual universe. In preparation for this launch, Standing Stone Games reminded players to grab all […]

If you were holding a vigil for Last Oasis’ Season 6 to finally get here, we hope you have the biggest candle in the world, because that sucker’s going to be burning for well over two years now. The good news is that while a release date for the game-overhauling update has yet to be […]

If there’s one mantra that MMO players and developers alike should learn, it’s “plans change.” It’s certainly something that Past Fate’s fans are going to have to accept, because Icy North Games announced on Sunday that it’s pushing the previously planned December early access for the medieval MMORPG into early January 2026. “To give the […]

Star Trek Online better hope that it’s got a fleet of space lawyers at its beck and call because the MMO might need them this month. That’s because the title went and started charging Value Added Tax (VAT) to its European customers without notifying them beforehand. “Captains, we’ve received some player reports regarding concerns with […]

For those who consider gacha elements in MMOs and online games an immediate deal-breaker, Tower of Fantasy has something to say: It’s going to deliver the gacha-free experience that players have wanted since the sci-fi RPG’s beginning. As we’ve been covering, a new version of the game called Warp Server is rolling out to fans […]