Where my Paladins at? You’re next up for Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s series of class refresh dev blogs, and Visionary Realms is hopeful you’ll like what you see. The new Pally is still basically a tank or healer who deals with the Wrath combat resource, and Pallies will still be able to spec into […]

This afternoon, Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online took the wraps off of more content coming over the course of 2026, including the Night Market. Ahead of the reveal today, we attended a press event to introduce more details for the upcoming Season 0, as well as tease a bit of what’s coming beyond that in […]

If you were gearing up for the April 2nd Throne and Liberty patch, go ahead and gear back down because it’s been delayed without any reason other than that Amazon says it wants to “ensure a smooth release,” which you would think would always be true. And unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be an April […]

Drakantos is one of the cuter indie MMORPGs we’ve been keeping an eye on over the last few years, so we’re happy to hear that it’s gearing up for yet another beta test in May. Unlike the last one, this test will focus on PvP tuning, though you don’t have to engage and can play […]

As promised, RuneScape Dragonwilds’ 0.11 patch has entered the survival sandbox’s early access chat today, bearing the uncomfortable name Dowdun Reach, which either sounds like “dowdy” or reminds me of Downton Abbey every single time I see it. The patch itself is anything but dowdy, however, as players are looking at new quests, new building […]

Wccftech has a new interview up this week with NCsoft America CEO Jeonghee “JJ” Jin, who in her typical quirky way has more or less teased more MMOs en route. JJ, who readers will recall was installed at the top of NC America back in 2024 after leaving Pearl Abyss, spoke to us back then […]

I am not a huge fan of fishing, but somehow in World of Warcraft, it became a thing I did kind of a lot back when I still played. And I love the idea that a really solid implementation of a game mechanic can turn a hater into a fan. For example: I don’t enjoy […]

The Honse game lives, and indeed, Equinox Homecoming has just released its first content patch since its formal launch at the top of March. Indie studio Blue Scarab has rolled out chapter four, seven new main quests “where you’ll come face to face with a conspiracy gripping the island,” five side quests, new cutscenes, a […]

PUBG Blindspot was probably always doomed to be in MMORPG fans’ blindspot, given that it was a multiplayer tactical shooter, but you still might’ve though Krafton would be able to make it stick in the games industry with the word “PUBG” attached to it. Apparently not: Over the weekend, Krafton’s ARC Team (no relation to […]

In the long long ago, rollback in MMOs were pretty common. Because of Ultima Online’s infrastructure, we saw rollbacks that first year of play weekly – more if you count the daily server reboot that always lost a few minutes (and became a free-for-all once players figured it out. But over time, rollbacks became so […]

Daybreak stunned MMORPG players this week by announcing it is collaborating with a new studio stuffed with emulator fans to build a spinoff version of throwback EverQuest as a standalone game called EverQuest Legends. And then after eight years of “beta one,” Camelot Unchained surprise-launched into early access on Friday. Oh yeah, and Epic Games […]

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smed’s new MMOFPS. “More and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.” OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025’s excesses, but let’s talk about more […]

If you haven’t played Gamigo’s core MMORPG Trove in a while or ever, you might not realize that modding has always been a big deal in the game, and we’re not just talking about Trion and then Gamigo’s programs for putting player-made gear and structures directly into the live MMO. Trove’s fanbase maintains several mod […]

Way back in April, Astroneer studio System Era Softworks announced a spinoff of its OG multiplayer space sandbox, but still set in the Astroneer universe. Called Starseeker, the new game sounded even more multiplayer-oriented than its predecessor. Now, System Era has gone into more detail on what to expect, courtesy of this week’s gameplay reveal […]

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]

Last weekend, Discord admitted to a “limited” security breach by hackers who supposedly wiggled Discord user data from a third-party. At the time, Discord suggested the breach was minimal and affected only “a limited number of users” – something like 70,000 users (oof). It’s starting to look like that was a bit of an understatement. […]

All the way back in April and long before the summer’s devastating studio layoffs, ZeniMax Online Studios revealed a major cadence shift for Elder Scrolls Online that aimed to do away with the old chapter system and introduce special seasons, including one-time FOMO-ish events. The first core event of that new system is a player-vs.-wall […]

If you’ve been waiting on the big North American region merge in Lost Ark, your moment has almost arrived: Amazon has set the date for October 22nd. That means the patch itself will roll out October 29th. “NA West will be merged into NA East on October 22. The full policy will be released on […]