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That's right, friends, Embracer Group is back in the business headlines again. Following the stated end of restructuring efforts, corporate leadership has now decided...

Since 2021, Neverwinter has been trying to do new things with the battle pass model, and now it's looking to try out a new...

Following a worrying bit of silence and slower development on Neverwinter's front, it's certainly good to see that a huge module is heading our...

While First Contact Day is technically on April 5th, players of Star Trek Online will be celebrating the fictional historic event between April 11th...

Don't look now, but the chunk of Gearbox that MMORPG players cared about is changing its name. Readers will recall that back in 2021, Embracer...

If you watched Cryptic's stream last month or even just caught our recap, you already know that the Neverwinter team has been hard at...

Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business! Embracer: Embracer has been a dumpster fire of epic proportions...

Let's be honest: Massively OP's MJ doesn't need any reason to be silly. It can be more difficult for her not to be! But...

It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...

Welcome to weird MMORPG game mode day! I mean, April Fools' Day - not that we're sorry a lot of the "pranks" have become...

Sadly, Neverwinter's The Dwarven King doesn't have nearly enough Bruenor Battlehammer for Massively OP's MJ's taste (or even his helm, for that matter!). Instead,...

Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...

Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta delay, and New World's next season, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, The Sims 4, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on rekindling the social magic of old MMORPGs.

If you cast your mind back to early February, you might recall that Daybreak parent company EG7 specifically called out DC Universe Online studio...

There are some names in the Forgotten Realms that elicit strong emotions and memories for Massively OP's MJ, and Bruenor Battlehammer is one of...

The knowledge that Cryptic's MMOs have been shunted off to a tiny European corner of the Embracer empire is not news to the MMO...

Every so often I think to myself that a video game should get some kind of media adaptation before I come to my senses....

Back in February, I revived Working As Intended to run a flurry of City of Heroes articles on the heels of Homecoming's formal license,...

She's not going to lie: Massively OP's MJ was put off from playing Neverwinter when her team discovered they cannot run any of the...

Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the...