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Myth of Empires previews Greek buildings and armor, opens Jade Era servers to help new players
The survival MMO Myth of Empires is going Greek for its most recent previews, as Angela Game has put out a couple of sneak peeks at a few of the buildings and armor sets that will be available when the related DLC releases.
Many of the buildings and building parts previewed have plenty of the expected aesthetics one would expect,...
The MOP Up: Tarisland’s Mr. D fixes the world
Over on Discord, Tarisland continues to walk fans through the history of its world, including the war between powerful beings, including a guy named... Mr. D? Yes indeed. "At their most helpless moment, a mysterious man who called himself Mr. D appeared before them, selflessly bringing them food and clothing and teaching them the truth about the world."
Or as...
The Stream Team: Chilling out with friends in the Final Fantasy XIV roulette
MOP's Chris and his family and friends are coming together yet again for their time-honored, weekly Final Fantasy XIV pastime: the duty roulette. There are Red Mage and Sage levels to earn, there is Ninja melee to continue improving at, and there are dungeons to plumb together. What could be better? Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for...
Battle Bards Episode 232: Wayfinder’s soundtrack
A small online RPG proves to have a big musical heart with Wayfinder, as Syp, Steff, and Syl discover! These consummate professionals chew through this soundtrack and ask for seconds, only to be denied because they made such a mess along the way. Also, we are the only people in the world who dislike Baldur’s Gate 3.
Battle Bards is the...
Elder Scrolls Online restores accounts following its PTS bungle, hands out a Mountain Dew wolf
Normally a public test of a much-anticipated update for Elder Scrolls Online is a happier occasion, but as readers know that's not been the case with public testing of the Gold Road chapter and Update 42, which ended up screwing up player accounts in the live game. It looks as if ZeniMax Online Studios has worked things out and...
One Shots: …and that’s how I became hoarse
While you may be completely freaked out when confronting an enemy six times your size, it's important not to show fear. In fact, one of the best ways to intimidate your foe in return is to loudly sing an annoying earworm and hope that the enemy becomes so distracted you can put the pointy end of your sword in...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the coziest inns?
Look, it's time to accept and understand a fundamental truth about Star Wars: The Old Republic, perhaps the game's greatest failing. Cantinas? Not comfy. These are not comfy places to hang out and take a load off. That's a problem in a game where you are constantly darting about from planet to planet, at least in theory. The only...
Hearthstone’s latest balance patch focuses on nerfing cards that ‘remove player agency’
If you've played a collectible card game of any stripe, you're probably familiar with card combos and deck strategies that effectively make it impossible for the opponent to play, whether they lock down moves, clear the battlefield, or allow a turn that just doesn't seem to stop. It's a playstyle that has unsurprisingly reared its head in Hearthstone and...
Make My MMO: Starship Simulator’s $500K Kickstarter, Legends of Aria’s revival
The last few weeks have been absolutely packed for MMO crowdfunding news. To wit:
Legends of Aria aka Shards Online is back! The original developer, who'd sold the game to a crypto outfit, is reviving the non-crypto game on Steam as Legends of Aria Classic.
Genfanad, which originally funded on Kickstarter with $20,000, has given up on morphing into...
Don’t Starve’s Klei Entertainment pushes new co-op roguelike Rotwood into early access
If the Don't Starve soundtrack haunts your nightmares the way it does mine, then I have bad news for you: Klei Entertainment has another co-op title in the same spirit on deck. It's called Rotwood, and it rolled into early access this week for just under 10 buckaroos. From Klei's description, Rotwood is basically a co-op roguelike in which...
Warframe prepares fans for the arrival of Protea Prime and Jade Shadows
Warframe isn't content to let other online game studios hog the months of May and June to themselves. The scifi action RPG is planning a one-two punch of power and precision this spring, leading up to TennoCon 2024 and more info on Warframe: 1999 in July.
First up is the arrival of the Prime form of the Protea warframe, the...
The Stream Team: Celebrating City of Heroes 20th anniversary in Homecoming
The big 2-0. Not many MMORPGs reach this anniversary in live status. However, some -- like City of Heroes -- can fight their way back after a break! Thanks to the officially sanctioned server Homecoming, fans get to celebrate the 20th anniversary doing what they enjoy: playing the game! Massively OP's MJ joins the throng as PUNisher Intended to...
LOTRO Legendarium: 27 practical benefits of LOTRO’s player housing
There's this ongoing common perception in MMOs like Lord of the Rings Online that player housing is good for one and only one purpose: to be a Barbie dollhouse where you stash nice-looking but otherwise pointless trophies. Maybe you become a decorating virtuoso of the game and astound others with your creation, but that's about it.
This line of thinking...
WRUP: We are just talking about sheep edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! It's about sheep. Also we're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about toys.
The Daily Grind: What’s the 2024 expansion that has you the most excited?
While the launch dates for upcoming MMORPGs are a tricky and uncertain affair, what's more assured is an array of expansions that are on track to come out in the 2024 calendar year. Sometimes those can even be more exciting than a new MMO, especially if you're invested in that title.
We've got a lot that's on deck for the...
The Stream Team: Towards The Wandering Light in AQ3D’s cemetery
Not much has happened in AQ3D's cemetery (wait, isn't that a good thing?!?). Until now. The latest update brings in Lady Phimion, who is also known as The Wandering Light, to cleanse the cemetery of a secretive group of necromancer wannabes affiliated with the Cult of Mortis. Massively OP's MJ will assist Lady Phimion in wiping out those death...
Betawatch: Age of Water and Bellwright enter early access
For some reason we keep letting games enter early access, and this week saw two more hit that stage of release, with both Age of Water and Bellwright moving access to the "early" column. Before you jump into the latter, please be reminded that the developers all but abandoned their last early access game, so that may be helpful...
Stardew Valley’s latest patch adds more mines, fairies, and fish frenzies
Stardew Valley isn't quite finished perfecting its cozy life sim world. This past week saw the release of Patch 1.6.4, and as usual, the devs crammed in plenty of new things to do and see in this pocket-sized universe.
Among the offerings with this update include 40 new mine layouts, the introduction of something called "fish frenzies," an additional cutscenes,...
Multiplayer medieval brawler Mordhau marks fifth anniversary with April 29 demon attack
The multiplayer PvP-focused medieval brawler Mordhau doesn't often hit our news desk except when it's promising to fight toxicity or when modders transform the title wholesale, but it's been going on for five years running, which means developer Triternion is going to celebrate by unleashing demons on its playerbase. The digital kind, not literal ones; the studio has presumably...
IGN Live joins a long list of games industry events filling the June E3 hype void
The death of E3 has left quite a spring and summer hype vacuum for the games industry to try to fill - and Geoff Keighley's Summer Games Fest is far from the only contender, as IGN has announced IGN Live, slotted right when you'd have expected E3 to run back in the long long ago.
Organizers announced that the show...
