Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Video, Bugs, Culture, Previews, Opinion, Free-to-play, Casual, Roleplaying, First Impressions, Rise and Shiny, Miscellaneous Here I am making myself crazy once again. Why? Why do I insist on visiting games...

Filed under: Events, real-world, Events, in-game, Massively Meta, Humor, Massively Hands-on, Livestream, Miscellaneous, Previously on MV TV What a week of livestreaming! We've got quite the variety and tons of hours of video to watch. What's that? You had to work and missed half...

Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous For some players, MMOs are all about discovery. The game is at its most fun when you're just exploring the world, figuring out what you need to do as best you can. But to other players, wandering around without a clue isn't as fun...

Filed under: Fantasy, Interviews, News items, Mobile, Community Q&A In honor of the game's paper anniversary, Order & Chaos: Online producer Arnaud Bonnard took the time to do some Q&A with user-submitted questions about what is one of the biggest mobile MMOs available. Arnaud shared some of the...

Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Opinion, Consoles, The Mog Log, Anniversary Generally speaking, when I celebrate anniversaries, I celebrate the point when the game actually came out in a language that I could play it. This is relevant in the case of Final Fantasy XI, since...

Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Game mechanics, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Tattered Notebook I was watching Shrek with my kids the other day, and one of my favorite scenes is Shrek's stroll with Donkey when they first meet. Shrek tries to explain how Ogres are like onions and how...

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Road to Mordor You would think that growth and expansion is nothing but a good thing for MMOs -- after all, those are the hallmarks of the genre. But as these games get bigger, issues emerge as the developers...

Filed under: Culture, Free-to-play, All Points Bulletin, Crime, MMOFPS, Humor Account theft and compromise are tragic facts of life in all MMOs, as player BlackJackieChan discovered the other day when he logged into APB: Reloaded and realized that he was wiped out. After posting a...

Filed under: Fantasy, News items, TERA We've told you previously about Amazon's special limited-time MAYhem sales, but the news just keeps getting better. Today TERA is on sale at 50% off (and it will be again on May 26th), bringing it down to a delectable $24.99 for the standard edition and...

Filed under: Massively Meta, Miscellaneous For various terrible reasons, I only just found out about Panzer Pets (and yes, we did cover the announcement on Massively, but I still occasionally miss news we cover). Like many ambitious projects, it's on Kickstarter, but as of right now it's not even 10% funded, which raises the...

Filed under: Fantasy, MMO industry, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous Forty million. That's how many fashion combinations Spirit Tales is boasting. Forget, for a moment, whether you are a fan of Anime-inspired MMOs and cutesy fare and consider that staggering number on its merits.

Filed under: Betas, MMO industry, Betawatch, Miscellaneous This week on Betawatch, we say farewell to Diablo III, which (at least nominally) moved on from beta to official launch on Tuesday. Bizarrely enchanting new MOBA SmashMuck Champions takes its place, joining our list with a closed beta planned within the...

Filed under: Fantasy, Game mechanics, Interviews, Patches, News items, Opinion, Free-to-play, Browser, Mobile, Hands-on, Casual, Miscellaneous, MMObility, Crafting Jagex, developer of the ever-popular browser-based game RuneScape, is known for its...

Filed under: Fantasy, Lore, News items, Races, The Elder Scrolls Online The flashlight of knowledge has already been directed at two of The Elder Scroll Online's three main political factions, and now the third is getting a little time in the light. We've already told you about the

Filed under: Historical, Business models, Interviews, News items, MMORTS, Age of Empires Online Gas Powered Games is aiming to take Age of Empires Online out of DLC-supported free-to-play and into a truly free model. That means moving away from what Systems Design Lead Eric Williamson described...

Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Previews, News items In the wake of the Rhode Island governor's release announcement, all eyes are on 38 Studios and Project Copernicus. Up until now the title has been talked about only in hushed tones, but today we've gotten a little something...

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Game mechanics, News items, Dev Diaries, Sandbox In a never-ending effort to facilitate the spread of war and destruction, the good folks at CCP have cooked up an Ally System for EVE Online's upcoming Inferno expansion -- a system...

Filed under: Events, real-world, MMO industry, News items, Free-to-play, Miscellaneous If you're going to be anywhere near New England next week, and you're interested in breaking into the games business, you might want to stop by Turbine's latest recruiting event. The developer of Lord of the Rings Online...

Filed under: Fantasy, Interviews, New titles, News items, The Elder Scrolls Online Games in the Elder Scrolls series have always been about giving players the opportunity to become the game's hero, and it looks like The Elder Scrolls Online will be no different. The title's game director, Matt...

Filed under: Fantasy, Launches, MMO industry, Legal It is not every day that a U.S. governor is the one to announce the launch window for an MMO, so savor the weirdness while you can: Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee announced at a press conference that 38 Studios will be releasing...