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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves a theme park or ride of its own?

In February, we learned that MapleStory is getting its very own theme park attraction in Seoul, South Korea. And I have to admit I am a little bit jea

Bree Royce 2025-05-29 0
The Daily Grind: What’s an expanded character option you’ve been unusually excited for i

Its really nice when you have exactly the character options you want in an MMO. Whether its a combination of weapons, a skillset, a ship, or whatever,

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-05-29 0
MMO Hype Train: Is it time to light a fire under Light No Fire?

What earns an MMO a spot in your own Top 5 Most Anticipated Games list? Theres a lot of factors to consider: personal preferences, studio cred, fundin

Justin Olivetti 2025-05-29 0
The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you switched your MMO main character?

As we know, there are MMO mains and MMO alts. Mains are our bosom companions, there with us for the long haul as our primary representative in the gam

Justin Olivetti 2025-05-29 0
WoW Factor: How could World of Warcraft reclaim the leveling journey?

If you flip back and forth between WoW Classic and World of Warcraft Retail, you will certainly agree that these are two very different MMOs in a lot

Justin Olivetti 2025-05-29 0
Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs attract players with narrative (even players who know better)

The first two installments of the Gachapwned column were all about the ways in which the gacha business model is predatory, and more specifically how

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-05-29 0
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO-related phrase that sets your teeth on edge?

Of course there is, else Id not have asked the question!
I had this realization the other day when I was looking at a certain MMOs website, and right

Bree Royce 2025-05-29 0
Massively Overthinking: The spectrum of lockboxes in the MMO genre

A while back, I came across a Lord of the Rings Online discussion that leaped out at me because of its unusual turn. The players were complaining abou

Bree Royce 2025-05-29 0
First Impressions: Moonshot’s Wildgate is fun, but its biggest challenge is the players

Im not much of a PvP guy. Without putting too fine a point on it, Im bad at them. But something about Moonshot Games extraction RPG Wildgate spoke to

Andy McAdams 2025-05-29 0
Vague Patch Notes: MMO fans create divisions that do not exist

There is a constant debate in the World of Warcraft fan space that you have no doubt seen at this point, but it is one that has been going for quite s

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-05-29 0
The Stream Team: Outrun the sun in Split Fiction

When we last left Larry and MJ in their misadventures in Split Fiction, they jumped into a sidestory that took them to a planet whose sun sat on the e

Larry Everett 2025-05-29 0
Hands-on: Co-op roguelike Lynked Banner of the Spark is ready for launch and more fun than ever

I think all gamers have a dream game in their head that they wish somebody would make, a mashup of the best parts of different games that theyve enjoy

Colin Henry 2025-05-29 0
Perfect Ten: Dead MMORPGs that were weird and I’m glad they existed

I am going to make what may be a contentious statement here: I am not particularly sad about a lot of MMORPGs that shut down. I acknowledge that it is

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-05-29 0
The Daily Grind: What’s the most overused MMO zone type?

Back in the day, I used to label frequently used biomes in video games Super Mario Sonic levels. As in, oh, its another volcano zone. Oh, its another

Justin Olivetti 2025-05-29 0
Overwatch 2 adds Freja to Stadium, launches its Street Fighter collab, and revives an October 2020 p

Its the mid-season in Overwatch 2, and that means its patch time for the shooter, as Blizzard is bringing some new updates and fresh character tweaks

Chris Neal 2025-05-29 0
Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization ac

The Invictus Launch Week free-fly event of Star Citizen is usually meant to be a time of celebration; a way to try out ships and see newly released ve

Chris Neal 2025-05-29 0
WoW Classic continues to resurrect hardcore characters, WoW Retail embraces Timewalking dungeoneerin

As The Princess Bride taught us, theres dead and theres mostly dead. This is especially true on WoW Classics hardcore realms, where permadeath isnt pr

Justin Olivetti 2025-05-29 0
Star Citizen prepares for May 15 Invictus event with new vehicle preview and ‘stock-limited

In two days time, Star Citizen will open up its doors once again to all players during its May 15th Invictus free fly event, which means that CIG is r

Chris Neal 2025-05-29 0
Star Wars The Old Republic deploys Update 7.7: Dynamic Worlds today – but you’ll have to

A big Star Wars: The Old Republic game update without a story is kind of like Christmas without the presents still quite serviceable but obviously mi

Justin Olivetti 2025-05-29 0
Embers Adrift will shift from monthly subscriptions to buyable ‘blocks of perk time’ ins

The frustrating hits just keep on coming for Storrmhaven Studios Embers Adrift. Readers no doubt recall that the devs behind the MMORPG were effective

Chris Neal 2025-05-29 0

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