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So if you're looped into the Guild Wars 2 scene, you already know that the second big chunk of the four-part Janthir Wilds expansion is coming to the game next week on November 19th. If you're a mapper (hi!), this is not gonna be your patch. But if you're a raider, step right up because ArenaNet is finally delivering...

So, how did Pax Dei's Proving Grounds update go last week? Well, you can probably guess by the fact that Mainframe Industries has put out a series of memos that "acknowledge the frustration some of you have felt with the recent changes, especially around crafting, gathering, and building" and "significantly impacted your gameplay." Mainframe explains that the first chunk of...

I’ve always been a bit of a fan of the Age of Empires IP despite not being MOP’s resident RTS gamer. That’s an honor bestowed to Tyler F.M. Edwards, whose Not So Massively and related columns' insights and ability to make me genuinely consider games more thoroughly than my smooth brain often wants to is astounding. Actually I have...

With yesterday's surprise announcement that WoW Classic is launching "Classic Classic" fresh start realms next week on November 21st, plenty of questions were raised about what these new servers will look like. Many of those questions were addressed on the forums in a lengthy blue post covering various topics such as rulesets and why the Hardcore version won't be...

So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other people around, and if you don't want other people around, you should not be playing them. This is something that I've gone over extensively at this point in the last four columns, but there's an...

Earlier this week, Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games announced that it was planning a fresh patch with important changes to account management ahead of Path of Exile 2's early access, starting with changing how account names work to use four-digit discriminators at the end of each account name. The plan was also to allow specialized sub-accounts for...

Astroneer is a beloved multiplayer sandbox around here, but even we were surprised back in September when System Era Softworks announced Glitchwalkers - its first formal DLC in seven years. And as of last night, Glitchwalkers has officially walked its way into the game - sans glitches, we hope. "Astroneer: Glitchwalkers takes players to a brand new glitched solar system...

Obviously no multiplayer game studio wants to shutter their game, but after two rounds of layoffs at Inflexion Games, it's obviously hard for Nightingale fans to not harbor that concern. That elephant in the room was addressed by devs in a November Q&A session in which studio CEO Aaryn Flynn promised that the survival sandbox will stay alive. "There is...

You might have had enough of Temtem, but what if it were a bullet-heaven shooter in which you teamed up with friends to blow up enemies? That seems like an odd move for the game, but it's what Temtem Swarm promises, and as the title is now available in early access it is the future of this particular franchise. The...

With all of the announcements flying out of the Warcraft Direct stream yesterday, news about WoW Classic's Season of Discovery servers got a bit snowed under. However, for those who are still enjoying this experimental ruleset, Blizzard's still got a trick or three up its sleeve. Next week on November 21st, Season of Discovery officially is moving into Phase 6....