In the wake of Destiny 2’s imminent collapse, MOP’s Chris and I were musing on which games would benefit most from the exodus of players who will eventually leave when given no fresh content or even seasons on a loop (a bizarre choice, but Sony clearly enjoys leaving money on the table or we wouldn’t […]

If your time inside of Path of Exile 2’s Temple system has been feeling really, really rewarding and empowering in the wake of the Path of the Ancients launch, it looks like that time is done with. Grinding Gear Games has confirmed that a hotfix was already deployed in order to correct what the studio calls […]

You would think that adding an all-new class to an old game like Diablo II: Resurrected would be a happy event, but then you also likely have never experienced ARPG players in public forums and subreddits, who primarily appear to be the angriest of human calculators. That appears to be the case among players of the game, […]

Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken was published in August of 1915, and it has endured an immense popularity since then. Many people can quote the last couplet of the poem (“I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”), and for years the title alone conjures images of […]

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 […]

Did you think Blizzard was going to leave Diablo IV players with no new shinies to play over the winter holidays? Well, you’re wrong because apparently you can spend Christmas in hell thanks to the dawn of Season of Divine Intervention next week. Also there are angels with presents. Look, there’s a theme here, and […]

When Day of Prophecy launched in Lost Ark ahead of Thanksgiving, it was missing one key component: the race to clear the Kazeros raid that headlined it. That race is now on with today’s update. Amazon kicked off the latest Kazeros the First this morning after a four-hour downtime as players across North America and […]

Last week, we covered the weird news that Embracer was in the process of divesting itself of Arc Games, which is the publishing outfit formerly known as Perfect World Entertainment that it bought only four years ago. Well, that wasn’t really the weird news; the weird news was that in the same presser, Embracer implied […]

A game like Titan Quest II doesn’t really lend itself to pastoral pursuits too well, so you would be forgiven for thinking that something called a Forge mastery would be a bit comparatively dull. However, the Forge mastery line coming to the multiplayer-optional ARPG acts a little bit differently – and with a more mythical […]

For those who love the class fantasy of being capable of wielding the wild in combat against evil, you’ve been kind of starved for that choice in Path of Exile 2 thus far. However, that cavernous Druid-shaped hole in your heart is about to be filled, as Grinding Gear Games has officially announced The Last […]