We might have a new record for the shortest length of time for an MMO to release and then shut down, which would normally be a sad moment but for the fact that this is related to some…
On the 10th, Wargaming released Update 15.8 for naval combat MMO game World of Warships and launched an event celebrating the 11th anniversary of its release.This update introduces an 11th Anniversary-themed Event Pass…
Square Enix has released Patch 7.56 for Final Fantasy 14, the subscription MMO's final content update before the Evercold expansion launches in January. Titled Trail to the Heavens, the patch sends the Warrior of Light…
Game Updates In the years that I’ve covered MMO history and news, there’s been this accepted narrative that’s gone unchallenged in this space. And that narrative goes something like this: Up until…
Game UpdatesWhat the report saysDoom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, an expansion-sized DLC, was released in July, in the same week Microsoft announced its sweeping 3,200 staff layoffs. The layoffs impacted almost the entirety of the…
Game Updates Just because we’re cruising into fall soon doesn’t mean that it’s too late in the year for an informative MMO roadmap! So it’s good to see that Cryptic’s sharing some of its plans for…
MMOs are the efforts of huge teams of people, some more visible than others, and to acknowledge and praise all of them is an impossible task. However, we do wing our personal kudos…
In 2024, Fenris Creations – then called CCP Games – said that it was planning to make its Carbon game engine open source. Now, some two years later, the tech behind the long-running sci-fi MMO Eve Online is available on…
At first, I almost dismissed this question as completely rhetorical. After all, doesn’t everyone have more free time during the weekends and would therefore game more then? But upon…
A while back, Eliot wrote a piece about Warframe’s Equinox frame, and it jumped out at me.“The problem is, well, having two frames at the same time is complicated,” he writes. “And…
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