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MMO Week in Review: LOTRO’s painful queue, Throne & Liberty’s Wilds of Talandre
Any hopes we had that Lord of the Rings Online's Great Server Migration would go to plan were dashed immediately this week as it...
MMO Week in Review: Stars Reach, Undermine(d), and BNS NEO
You know how I know the MMO genre still has some juice? Because it was hard as heck to catch up with everything that...
MMO Week in Review: Dune Awakening dated, Blade & Soul Neo dawning
The MMO genre is fixing to have an interesting spring, thanks to the arrival of Dune Awakening, which is finally rolling out on May...
MMO Week in Review: Drowning in MMO financial reports
Happy quarterly financials week! Aren't we having fun! We got numbers numbers numbers from a whole bunch of MMO companies this week, including Daybreak,...
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft is embracing time-tested MMO housing ideas
This week in MMOs, Blizzard laid out a rough outline for World of Warcraft's proposed housing system, and while the blueprint so far doesn't...
MMO Week in Review: Gorgon and Phoenix
I would like to say this past week wasn't another bad one for the genre, but I'm just not that big a liar. Most...
MMO Week in Review: New World, Quinfall, and Unchained
If this week in the MMORPG industry had a theme, it would be "things fall apart" or perhaps "oh no honey no."
First, Unchained Entertainment...
MMO Week in Review: Stars Reach, B&S NEO, and the RuneScape bungle
Well, that was a weird week. We worried over Stars Reach, contemplated the genre's demographics, laid out a plan for returning to LOTRO's new...
MMO Week in Review: LOTRO’s new servers, PlanetSide 2’s fate, Stars Reach’s Kickstarter
It was a wild week for MMORPGs here in early January - and kind of a lot of it happened at the end of...
MMO Week in Review: Throne takes the crown
So here we are, ready to embark on the first real week of January 2025, and... oh, what's that? Tomorrow's a snow day? Well,...
MMO Week in Review: LOTRO’s roadmap, WoW’s plague
We're in that lovely space between the holidays and the end of the year, but believe it or not, there was still MMO stuff...
MMO Week in Review: The end of Elder Scrolls Online’s expanshachapters
Elder Scrolls Online stunned - even panicked - many MMO players this week with the revelation that it's cutting its cadence back and canceling...
MMO Week in Review: Pantheon’s early access, Elder Scrolls Online’s union
An "overwhelming majority of video game workers" at Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios formally unionized this week, becoming the third union at Microsoft's...
MMO Week in Review: Path of Exile 2 is finally here
So Path of Exile 2 isn't an MMORPG, but should count as an MMO? Well, Steam has it flagged that way, so you can...
MMO Week in Review: New World’s roadmap, Corepunk’s early access
After weeks of needling, Amazon finally delivered a roadmap for New World this week: The studio is introducing what it's calling "seasonal worlds," the...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2 Godspawn, WoW Classic Classic
What a week for the MMORPG genre: Guild Wars 2 released Godspawn, WoW Classic Classic launched with nary a hitch, FFXIV's Crossroads was pretty...
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft will be ‘home’ by Midnight
Most MMO players who thought World of Warcraft should have housing also never expected it to happen, largely because, you know, the devs kept...
MMO Week in Review: Legacy of Morgoth vs. Brighter Shores
The MMORPG genre saw two big launches this week: First, Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG from one of the RuneScape's creators, made its early...
MMO Week in Review: Ascendancy, Horizons, and U44
It was a surprisingly big patch week for the MMORPG genre: Elder Scrolls Online pushed out Update 44, Elite Dangerous launched its Ascendancy patch,...
MMO Week in Review: For WoW’s birthday, you’re giving it another $90
World of Warcraft raised eyebrows this week as it began selling a $90 specialty mount that is unabashedly pay-to-win thanks to its baked in...
