Tibia, one of the oldest PC MMORPGs around, is getting a brand new character class nearly three decades after it first launched. Yes, this MMO is potentially older than you and is still being updated.

For the uninitiated, Tibia is an MMO from German developer and publisher CipSoft released in 1997, years before genre titans Everquest and RuneScape were more than twinkles in their publishers' eyes.

After 28 years, pioneering MMO Tibia will finally have a fifth playable character class. Joining the previous vocations of Knight, Sorcerer, Druid, and Paladin is the Monk, who will become the ...

Tibia is a lesser-known free MMO that predates both, and it’s making a bold leap forward by introducing a new class for the first time in nearly 30 years. However, ripples are about to be sent ...

CipSoft offered players of the MMORPG a chance to try out the new class as part of a test. The Monk proved popular enough ...

but don’t forget about Tibia. Originally created all the way back in 1997, it’s often regarded as the first true MMORPG, and even now nearly thirty years later, it’s still running ...

The Monk class will join Tibia's four original classes--Sorcerer, Paladin, Druid, and Knight--which launched alongside the top-down 2D MMO in 1997. As revealed in a blog post and teaser video ...

The Tibia devs recently held their second playtest ... work it took to integrate a new class into a decades-old MMORPG. The first Monk playtest took place at the end of February, and the second ...

Tibia introduces the Monk ... CipSoft faced the challenge of balancing damage-dealing and healing in this classic MMORPG. The main gameplay change the Monk introduces is related to its “harmony ...

Now that's what I call being careful with the game balance. After 28 years, pioneering MMO Tibia will finally have a fifth playable character class. Joining the previous vocations of Knight ...