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Not willing to part with LOTRO entirely, I went a week or so go by and then dipped back in to make a little adventuring progress on my Minstrel. I see that Update 48 and its new zone is in testing,

Justin and Chris discuss Albion Online, the TurtleWoW lawsuit, EverQuest Legends, and AdventureQuest Worlds Infinity's Kickstarter, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, MechWarrior 5, Skate, Red Dead Online, and The Division 2, plus a mailbag ...

I was watching a video the other day that was talking about overengineering - that is, designing things to be way more complicated than they need to be. The specific items were art supplies and actually kinda fun, but not really necessary in any way ...

I've long ago realized that every single person in the world is deeply weird in some way, just that some are better at hiding their particular quirks than others. So it makes sense that a sprawling video game made by multiple people also would harbor ...

Not a lot of gamers consider how studios don't make patches sequentially, fully finishing one before starting on the next. Rather, parallel development is much more common and the focus of this week's discussion among Lord of the Rings Online's ...

The latest development update for Lord of the Rings Online arrived yesterday as Lead Designer Allan "Orion" Maki posted the roadmap for the game's second and third quarter updates. Update 48: A Glorious Hunt is scheduled to arrive this month with a ...

Beep! Beep! Beep! That's the patch truck backing up on your front lawn to unload a couple of Standing Stone Games patches right to your door. This truck is never early nor late; it shows up precisely when it wants to. Which is Wednesday. First in ...

Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Season Zero, Guild Wars Reforged's patch, Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era, and MechWarrior layoffs, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars, plus mailbag topics on reclaiming MMO nostalgia and ...

A few weeks ago, my fellow World of Warcraft columnist Tyler gifted us with an honest overview of Midnight's main storyline, concluding that it was a slip back into messy, uneven narrative of the sort that Blizzard's been giving us for years. And ...

Lord of the Rings Online's developers and community alike are getting super hyped for the new Rivendell Steadings premium housing neighborhood that's coming in Update 48. And if you don't want to bother with getting onto the test server for an early ...