Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. As usual, there’s very little in here to be happy about, so let’s get the ugly stuff out of the way first. Marathon lawsuit:…
Would you enjoy a little bit of high fantasy in your modern urban sci-fantasy game? Then you’re being served directly by Neverness to Everness’ latest update, which takes players on a little trip to something decidedly different…
Over this past week, I’ve been reading the Elder Scrolls Online Reddit and forums to take the temperature of the community in the wake of the layoffs Microsoft just absurdly put this profitable team that…
It’s party time over in Black Desert’s PC version this week! Honestly, it can be party time in any of the versions of the sandbox MMORPG, but this week in particular has a whole big festive…
Last March, we first reported on Winds of Valen, a free-to-play old-school styled MMORPG from indie studio Fiery Dog Games that hangs its hat on gameplay in which players are earning things through effort. Since…
If I told you a long-running MMORPG is finally coming to console and made you guess which one, I’m pretty sure Fiesta Online would not even make the top 100 list for games you’d think…
With Umbral Sands in the rearview mirror, RuneScape Dragonwilds is shaking off complaints about grind and setting expectations for Scorned Wilderness, which is the major update set for this fall. “Until now, we’ve shipped Major…
Whenever I’m looking at an upcoming MMO project, I have the same pressing question: Is this a contender? As in, does this project have actual funding, a solid development team, a strong vision, proof that…
Artificial Core’s MMORPG Corepunk has had an unusual couple of weeks: At the tail end of June, the devs wiped its early access servers and rebooted the game with a revamped battle pass, an in-game…
I had originally planned a very different column to run today, and it would have been part of Vague Patch Notes, but then Microsoft happened. It was a more serious column, and for a moment…