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This week in MMOs, Lord of the Rings Online opened preorders for its fall mini-expansion, Before the Shadow, which offers a new leveling experience for newbies and new content for highbies. Meanwhile, Ultima Online turned 25 years old, Star Citizen hit $500M crowdfunds, Black Desert hosted another Heidel Ball, and we geared up for Dual … Read more

Players of Dungeons and Dragons Online were locked out of their MMORPG of choice this past weekend when the engineers of Standing Stone Games had to shut down the servers to address a serious bug related to reincarnation caches. After roughly a full day’s worth of effort, the game servers are back online after a … Read more

Comparisons between New World and The Secret World have existed pretty much since the earliest teases of NW. It’s what put the game on my radar in the first place. Now that the game has launched, we know that it is a starkly different sort of game than TSW. And yet… it’s a comparison that … Read more

At the top of September, Amazon announced that it would be merging some of Lost Ark’s servers and even began patching the infrastructure to make it all happen; a total of 32 servers were slated for merging across two waves. Well, now that first wave is upon us as of tomorrow, and Amazon has briefed … Read more

A rather serious trading exploit rocked the New World economy late last week, with Amazon Game Studios taking swift steps to hotfix it and deal with the perpetuators. Amazon reported the exploit on September 22nd, disabling player trading and banning those participating in what appears to have been rampant duping. Responding to concerns that the … Read more

With Minstrels on the receiving end of a huge revamp in Lord of the Rings Online’s latest update, Standing Stone Games may be turning its attention next to the tanky Guardians. In a forum post over the weekends, the studio delivered a possible vision for a class rework (mostly through decluttering skills) while also opening … Read more

A tiny storm is beginning to brew across the Lost Ark community: The so-called “Ark Week extravaganza” – the week of programming on Amazon’s Crown channel devoted to the upcoming MMOARPG – had posted a channel banner advertising that viewers could earn points by watching that could then be redeemed for free founder’s packs to … Read more

In the middle of December, New World announced that it would be merging servers for various global regions, though some would be later than others due to a housing persistence issue. That issue has since been fixed, and as announced late on Friday night, a fresh server merge is coming as the Ramaja server will … Read more

Today is the day that Lost Ark can be installed on potential players’ computers. It can’t actually be launched or played yet – that comes later – but as of today at noon EST, the game can now be pre-loaded by everyone, whether you’ve bought a founder’s pack or not. Of course, when players can … Read more

Diablo II: Resurrected is continuing to turn the knobs on its ballyhooed Patch 2.4 as PTR testing has moved along. The next step in public testing, according to one of the game’s Community Managers, is to kick the tires of the ranked ladder. The next public test should be available shortly after the current PTR … Read more

Back in July 2020 we reported on the news of a Fallout TV series, which was confirmed to be headed to Amazon Prime Video and helmed by the production studio responsible for the Westworld series. News on the series has since been silent until recently, as word is out that the series is now kicking … Read more