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Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs as Saturday morning cartoons
My insane MMO and MMORPG thought experiments do indeed continue: Previously I considered what muffins MMO NPCs are, then I considered what flavor of...
Diablo IV wants your actual blood – for a good cause, of course
It's not every day that a video game comes after your actual blood, but if there's a title to do it, it certainly would...
Wargaming launches multiple charitable bundles for its slate of titles to benefit Ukraine
The country of Ukraine continues to defend itself from the ongoing Russian invasion, which naturally means that aid is still needed for the Ukrainian...
EverQuest, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, and more fundraise for this year’s Extra Life push
It's the season for the annual push by gamers and game studios to support Extra Life, the charity that raises money for Children's Miracle...
World of Warcraft’s charity pets for Ukraine raise more than $1.5 million
It's really easy to have a pretty negative opinion of Activision Blizzard these days, since the company regularly makes sure of that. But its...
Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is an adorable free-to-play ‘multiplayer pumpkin carving simulator’
There are plenty of MMO, MMORPG, and multiplayer games having lots of Halloween fun, but they arguably don't quite hit the most traditional of...
TennoCon and DragonCon raised over $200K apiece for charity this summer
Two of my most favorite gaming conventions of the year have one great thing in common: Both TennoCon and Dragon Con raise money for...
A Final Fantasy XIV player snagged 100% of the game’s achievements… just before the 6.5 patch
Before Tuesday's arrival of patch 6.5, Growing Light, Final Fantasy XIV had 2,751 achievements. That's a lot. It's even more when you consider many...
World of Warships debuts a Captain’s Club benefits program as Wargaming donates to Maui wildfire relief
Do you have a World of Warships account? Have you participated in one battle within the past 30 days? Then you're already a member...
The Cycle Frontier sunsets today as studio YAGER says goodbye to players, literally
Back in June, we learned the sad news that Tencent-backed YAGER would be sunsetting its PvEvP shooter The Cycle Frontier, owing in part to...
EVE Fanfest 2023: EVE players will help cure cancer with new Project Discovery minigame
Back in 2016, EVE Online developer CCP Games announced an unusual partnership with scientific research organisation MMOs and the Human Protein Atlas. They created...
Destiny 2 wrestles with overpowered crafted weapons and DDoS attacks
The Guardians of Destiny 2 are generally written as powerful space wizards who wield magical abilities and unique firearms to take down galactic threats,...
Terraria dev commits $200,000 plus monthly donations to open-source engine Unity rivals
It would be really great if the Unity situation would stop being a big ol' industry-wide garbage fire, but alas, it is not this...
A multiplayer Bluey videogame is coming to PC and console in November, and your kids want it
A few weeks back, I mentioned in MOP's work chat that my kids have been obsessed with some random Aussie kids cartoon about dogs....
You’ve Got Flail: New World’s flail ability names deliver a smorgasbord of puns and dad jokes
Sure, the new flail weapon coming to New World as part of the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion looks pretty cool, but do...
14-year-old golf MMO Sega Splash Golf is slowly being reassembled by one dedicated fan
Normally we open these kinds of stories by asking our readers if they remember an old game, but it's extremely likely that nobody outside...
SWGEmu celebrates Star Wars Galaxies’ 20th birthday year with a tribute video
Yes, Star Wars Galaxies celebrated its 20th anniversary back in June - we wrote all about it - but we like SWG 'round these...
WoW Classic shares ‘gruesome data’ from hardcore’s first week
Now that WoW Classic admits that it'll never be able to put a number other than "0" over the sign "Days Since a Player...
Final Fantasy XIV puts its voice actors to the ultimate test of assembling an anniversary cake
For the eight-year anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV, Square-Enix had Kim-Joy of Great British Bake-Off fame assemble a lovingly crafted and meticulous anniversary cake....
Pirates Online rogue server operators open an archive that preserves assets from Pirates of the Caribbean Online
The history of Pirates of the Caribbean Online is one that's about as unique as making an entire MMO out of a Disney theme...
