by Bree Royce on August 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM

At Gamescom’s Opening Night Live this afternoon, NCsoft brought a bunch of trailers and splashed out previewing multiple games, chief among them – at least for MMORPG players – being Aion 2. The upcoming global MMO got not only a trailer but a launch date. “NC’s AION 2 team is ramping up with a series

by Bree Royce on August 25, 2026 at 5:55 PM

Gamescom has returned again, and that means another round of Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live. Yes, it’s night in Cologne. Take it up with astrophysics. Technically, the preshow has been running for the last half hour, but you haven’t missed much, and in fact, we’re not expecting a ton of multiplayer and MMO news, but

by Chris Neal on August 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM

I continue to be surprised by the results of the polls for EverQuest Legends. So far they’ve been either extremely close or extremely obvious, and while last week’s polling started out as the former, it slowly climbed into the latter until it was a literal dead heat. As per tradition, a coin toss decided Cat Bard’s

by Eliot Lefebvre on August 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM

I’m going to open this particular column – which itself is going to lead into a series of columns – with a statement that may be controversial but may not. I think we have reached the point with Final Fantasy XIV at which strict readings of former jobs are no longer actually useful in terms of

by Chris Neal on August 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM

We already knew that the Kickstarter drive for The Guild: Ren Faire’d was going to be a success, but not even we could foresee how big of a success it would be: The crowdfunding drive for the MMORPG-themed web series’ reunion film has officially wrapped up, raising an incredible $6,820,829 at the end of this