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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

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

Welcome to a new year of the LOTRO Legendarium! With Fate of Gundabad at our backs and an unknown future ahead, it’s quite the interesting time to be involved in Lord of the Rings Online. Today I want to cram two column topics into the same space. First, we’re going to pour over the recent … Read more

It’s time for another annual tradition: examining Daybreak’s prospects. We started back in 2015, when Sony cast off SOE and it was reshaped as Daybreak… and purged games and staffers in the process. Subsequent years have brought the total to somewhere around 20 closed games, with multiple studio spinoffs, the pickup of Standing Stone, the … Read more

This is always one of the most depressing roundups I do around the turn of every year, and this year… well, we lost some good ones. Gamigo’s gamepocalypse took out four games, including Defiance; that Cryptic’s sunset of Magic Legends before it’d even left beta, was the highest-profile sunset of the year. The year also … Read more

Most folks have their own goals and gameplay that they enjoy in MMORPGs. For me in Elder Scrolls Online, it’s gradually bringing a game map to full completion. It’s so satisfying ticking off the boxes from the zone guide and getting to explore all of the nooks and crannies of these realms. Thanks to the … Read more

It’s 2022 now, so that’s something! Feels a lot like 2021… in terms of the MMO landscape, I mean, because no major updates have dropped yet for understandable reasons and I’m looking forward to the same nonsense I was last year. It’s just that now what I’m looking forward to are the patches for the … Read more

Is it weird to celebrate a mountain? Genshin Impact developer miHoYo didn’t bother to stop and ask itself that question and instead is commemorating the real-world Alps via web events and some promotional materials spread across a European Alpine ski resort. The Alps are the inspiration for the game’s Dragonspine region, you see, which has … Read more