The Stream Team: Controlling the Chaos in Wayfinder
Massively OP’s MJ’s first foray in Wayfinder went pretty well. She selected her character (in record time!), started the story, tested out a dungeon, and...
Massively Overthinking: What year of MMOs would you pick to repeat forever?
A while back on the podcast, Justin joked that if he could pick one year to lock in and live in forever, it would be...
Fantasy Online 2 is an early access pixel art MMO for Steam, browser, and Android
No, that’s not a typo: This game really is called Fantasy Online 2, and you’re unlikely to mistake it for Phantasy Star Online 2 in...
Path of Exile 1 makes a list of adjustments to its leagues in its latest patch
It’s a patch-filled jamboree for both versions of Path of Exile, friends! Yes, whether you’re into the early access MMOARPG or the already released MMORPG, both...
Doom Just Found Its Weirdest New Home: Microsoft Paint
DoomPaint is the latest in the series of unusual Doom ports, from Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure. Russinovich whipped DoomPaint up in his spare time with the help of Claude Opus 4.8, based on information in his LinkedIn posts and the code itself.
DoomPaint is about what you’d expect from a wild port like this, because apps
Overwatch and World of Warcraft composer Adam Burgess departs Blizzard after 11 years
Adam Burgess may not be a name you’ve heard that often, but if you’ve played Blizzard’s games, you’ve no doubt listened to his music at...
Time Magazine’s Site Now Shows Advertisements Only Chatbots Can See
Time Magazine is apparently testing out a way to game the bots that make up the majority of traffic on the internet. The Register spotted...
More hefty GPU price hikes are rumored — and your only chance of a high-end Nvidia graphics card at MSRP is at QuakeCon
Want an RTX 5070, 5080 or 5090 at MSRP? Well, there’s a chance you might get one — although it’s vanishingly slim and highly location-dependent.
Brighter Shores lead dev Andrew Gower talks with players in-game about combat update plans
Normally an AMA or Q&A session would happen on platforms like Reddit, Twitch, or Discord instead of within the global chat channel of the MMORPG...
Intel Diamond Rapids Xeon 7 CPU Leaks With Massive 240MB L3 Cache
A SiSoftware benchmark for an early engineering sample of Intel’s upcoming Diamond Rapids “Xeon 7” processor, spotted by 188号 (@Momomo_US on Xwitter), shows promising progress for Intel’s 18A-P followup to its 18A fabrication node. This colossal piece of silicon, which will be part of Intel’s Xeon response to AMD’s Zen 6 EPYC Venice processors,