At this afternoon’s Opening Night Live show at Gamescom 2024, Grinding Gear Games formally announced that early access for Path of Exile 2 is slated for November 15th. In other words, MOARPG fans will have about a month to finish up Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred, which launches October 8th, before moseying on over to […]

At this afternoon’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, the indie team at Omeda Studios formally launched Predecessor, one of multiple MOBAs spawned from the remains of Epic Games’ open-sourced MOBA Paragon. “Today, players will be able to dive into version 1.0 on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store; and on console via PlayStation 4/5 and Xbox […]

During this afternoon’s Opening Night Live at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Amazon’s Prime Video label announced Secret Level, a “new adult-animated anthology series” specifically featuring video games. And naturally, among those video games is New World. “Part of our vision from the beginning is to develop and publish fantastic IPs that immerse and excite players […]

In this mini episode, Bree runs down Throne & Liberty's delay, New World's Aeternum beta, Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds launch, the Richard Garriott Ultima Online rumor, the state of Ultima Online New Legacy, Nightingale's Realms Rebuilt, the record-setting SWG Legends' SOEclipse event, and the approach of Gamescom.

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Gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, is about to begin with Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live spectacle, a two-hour parade of trailers, advertisements, and ideally, new game announcements that kick off the show and set the stage for the event… oh yeah, and give those of us back home some distraction. Thanks to public hints and […]

Fellow MMO housing fans, furbish up your design skills because we’re going to Janthir Wilds today. Yes, Guild Wars 2’s latest expansion officially rolls out today. Janthir Wilds is B2P for a one-time fee of $24.99 (on up if you want a loaded pack), which includes all four major patches as they roll out over […]

Back in July, Kotaku penned a piece on Kien, a game originally announced for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance… in 2002. Apparently, the game was finished back then, but no publisher would take it on. A full 22 years later, one of the original devs returned to revamp the game and get it out on […]

Elder Scrolls Online players, set your launcher patchers to go because update 43 is officially live as of this afternoon – at least if you’re on PC or Mac, anyway. U43 is a free base-game update that’s going to appeal to fans of player housing in particular. “Update 43 introduces one of the most anticipated […]

A while back, MOP reader Hebby joked on Mastodon that she intentionally plays bad MMOs, but even she was surprised to see a certain MMO that shall remain nameless getting coverage. So I want to talk about the idea of playing bad MMOs. At first, I was tempted to scoff; why would anyone do this, […]

This week in the world of MMORPGs tried its damnedest to make up for the week before (iykyk): Throne & Liberty got a two-week delay, New World picked a date for its Aeternum crossplay beta, Dungeons and Dragons Online launched its Myth Drannor expansion, and Richard Garriott suggested he’s trying to get Ultima Online back […]

It’s been an interesting summer for crowdfunded MMOs. Ashes of Creation has hit August running, first with a preview of the Bard class, then with a formal announcement of its paid alpha 2 starting October 25th, which as you can imagine has gamers grumbling. Meanwhile, Star Citizen continued teasing alpha 4, Dual Universe continues its […]

Earlier this afternoon, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends hosted a massive event called SOEclipse, essentially the precise moment when the Legends Omega server has officially been alive longer than the original live servers under SOE. Players were invited to log in and join the devs in Cloud City for the festivities, countdown, and […]

We wouldn’t normally cover an MMORPG promotion with a third party, but in the case of Elder Scrolls Online and Alienware, the promo includes an event with free stuff that our readers might want to get in on – and all you have to do is go play the game. “During the next phase of […]

Today’s Daily Grind is inspired by Neverwinter, whose last module revamped the volcanic Mount Hotenow and dropped a ton of Mountain of Flame screenshots on our heads. And you know, I used to really, truly hate the requisite “volcano zone” in MMOs, whether or not they actually had a volcano. Red everywhere? Flames falling out […]

Destiny 2’s Bungie volunteered to be the industry villain of the week as it slashed multiple games and teams with cancelations and layoffs as part of cost-cutting measures to rescue the Sony-owned studio from Bungie executives’ management blunders. Meanwhile, we took a look at Fellowship, pondered what theoretical World of Warcraft housing could look like, […]

At the tail end of July, the devs behind rogue server Star Wars Galaxies Legends released a new dev blog discussing development of the game over the month – and into the future. While the volunteer team admits to a “slowdown” thanks to real life, it says there’s been more work completed on the incoming […]

Nexon is talking up Mabinogi’s next update, launching next week: It’s the second part of its chapter 8 Winds of Fate release, but don’t let the ordinal fool you – this one has as much content as the first. In fact, the content that caught my eye is Moonlight Island, a new island village that […]

Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon dropped a fresh content-and-QOL patch this week in what devs characterized as a “nice well-rounded update” with a little bit of everything. For starters, Elder Game has tweaked the way area-of-effect attacks work against mobs. The devs explain that because AOE against mobs saw a reduction in direct damage but not […]