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The Daily Grind: What impressive innovative idea came directly from indie MMOs?

For reasons entirely unrelated to this job, I recently read a paper on indie game development that I keep thinking about. Author Bonnie Ruberg essenti

Bree Royce 2025-07-14 2
Mobile MMO Eterspire plans new quests, more events, and a Steam release in its 2025 roadmap

If youve been following the development of Eterspire like we have, then youll perhaps recall that the mobile-only MMORPG started life in 2022 as a bro

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 3
Shroud of the Avatar announces plans for a new quarterly release cadence for its major updates

Hey, Shroud of the Avatar. How are you doing? Or more importantly, what are you doing? Thats the question were answering once again as the MMORPG has

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 3
Loftia assesses alpha feedback, shares work on new hairstyles, props, and the Salvaging District

With the April alpha test for cozy solarpunk MMO Loftia in its rear view mirror, the devs at Qloud Games have resurfaced to share what its been up to

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 2
Equinox Homecoming adds emotes, new items, and several quality-of-life features

Early access for horse mystery MMO Equinox: Homecoming continues its steady gait of updates, with the games most recent patch introducing what one mig

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 3
Lord of the Rings Online’s latest roadmap letter talks about kinship calendar and trap fishing

Lord of the Rings Online players got a taste of their imminent future this past weekend thanks to a new studio roadmap letter that covered the next fe

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-14 3
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida remarks on content balancing and development missteps

Producer and director Naoki Yoshida usually doesnt make appearances outside of those specifically for Final Fantasy XIV, so to learn that he was invit

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 2
Krafton authenticates leaked internal slides that claim Subnautica 2 lacked polish and content

The plot continues to thicken around the Subnautica 2 debacle. As weve been covering for the last week, the release of the multiplayer survivalbox was

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 3
Star Trek Online invites players to meet DECA and hear about the MMO’s future in tomorrow̵

DECA Games, the new stewards for Star Trek Online and other Cryptic Games MMORPGs after Embracer effectively dissolved the studio last year, hasnt bee

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 4
Star Trek Online invites players to meet DECA and hear about the MMO’s future in tomorrow̵

DECA Games, the new stewards for Star Trek Online and other Cryptic Games MMORPGs after Embracer effectively dissolved the studio last year, hasnt bee

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
Star Trek Online invites players to meet DECA and hear about the MMO’s future in tomorrow̵

DECA Games, the new stewards for Star Trek Online and other Cryptic Games MMORPGs after Embracer effectively dissolved the studio last year, hasnt bee

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 1
Star Trek Online invites players to meet DECA and hear about the MMO’s future in tomorrow̵

DECA Games, the new stewards for Star Trek Online and other Cryptic Games MMORPGs after Embracer effectively dissolved the studio last year, hasnt bee

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
Star Trek Online invites players to meet DECA and hear about the MMO’s future in tomorrow̵

DECA Games, the new stewards for Star Trek Online and other Cryptic Games MMORPGs after Embracer effectively dissolved the studio last year, hasnt bee

Chris Neal 2025-07-14 0
The MOP Up: Nar Shadda’s nightlife spices up Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republics July isnt going to be dull, thanks to the return of the Nar Shaddaa Nightlife event. Currently running, this event contin

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-13 0
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the most satisfying way to play an evil character?

In a lot of MMORPGs, the default assumption when you have multiple opposed factions is that every faction is supposed to be justified based on its own

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-13 3
Throne and Liberty was offline nearly 12 hours this past weekend thanks to server instability issues

This past Friday was a challenging one for fans and especially for the IT devs of Throne and Liberty, as the MMORPG was knocked offline for nearly a f

Chris Neal 2025-07-13 2
Guild Wars 2 targets August 19 for the return of missing Janthir Wilds voiceover lines

For quite some time now, several NPCs and player characters of Guild Wars 2 have been without any spoken dialogue across Janthir Wilds as a result of

Chris Neal 2025-07-13 3
MapleStory previews Dave the Diver crossover event and new mastery nodes coming July 16

MapleStory already announced that it would have some crossover with the single-player RPG Dave the Diver, but all that anyone knew was that there woul

Chris Neal 2025-07-12 1
MMO Hype Train: Does ArenaNet have the gas to make Guild Wars 3?

Like many of you, Ive been watching with interest Guild Wars 2s many recent hints about an upcoming expansion announcement. And while I havent played

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-12 3
The Daily Grind: Do you max out your MMO outfits for your characters?

The other day in World of Warcraft, my guild was talking about the endless farm for more and more transmog pieces. Some people found that a compelling

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-12 1
Final Fantasy XIV plans its Promise of Tomorrow live letter as Final Fantasy XI deploys its latest p

The next Final Fantasy XIV patch, The Promise of Tomorrow, is slated for early August. The promise of August. But you dont have to take that from us;

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-11 2
Black Desert dates mobile’s Heidel Ball for July 19 and brings out the Deadeye on console

The Heidel Ball once again looms on the horizon, only this time its the event specifically for fans of Black Desert Mobile, as Pearl Abyss has tied do

Chris Neal 2025-07-11 3
New World will be ‘free’ for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subbers starting July 15

The New World news just keeps coming this week: First, we get a hell of a preview of the next two seasons (minus new season servers, which are dead an

Bree Royce 2025-07-11 1
Gachapwned: How to interact with gacha MMOs without letting their vices destroy you

When I initially conceived of Gachapwned, I did so as a limited experiment, and that experiment has now run its course. I did so because as I noted in

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-11 4
Casually Classic: Should WoW Classic get player housing?

In the previous Casually Classic column, I mulled over Blizzards survey of proposed Classic Plus ideas, tagging several that I thought would be the mo

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-11 2

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