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‘It’s like your mom reading you an old story’: Guild Wars 3 reveals composers and main music theme
ArenaNet apparently intended to keep putting out fresh Guild Wars 3 news every week so we don’t wander off, and the latest announcement is about the…
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Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s latest content has huge implications for the future of the MMO
I had a blast at the Heidel ball, but boy was I busy. There were so many reveals and it was all in a single two-and-a-half hour block that my head spun from…
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Electronic Arts’ CEO pockets $38M bonus thanks to Battlefield 6, whose actual devs saw layoffs
Folks, there just isn’t anything we could type here that would lessen the fury that this story will likely inspire, so we’re just going to get it…
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Vague Patch Notes: In praise of the loneliness of MMORPGs
There have been a lot of changes to Final Fantasy XI over the years, but one of the reasons I still go back to the game even as so much of what it used to be…
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‘We are not looking to just maintain the game,’ Elder Scrolls Online boss says in new post-layoff roadmap
All month, we’ve been reeling along with the Elder Scrolls Online devs as Microsoft took an axe to the whole studio, again, in spite of its roaring…
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First Impressions: My first three days living in the MMORPG simulation SEED
SEED is a game that wasn’t on my radar until right before it came to early access, which may seem strange since it’s been in development for years. My…
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Black Desert PC launches the Agent class and hands out the Hyperboost to players in latest patch
Say, friends, would you like to feel as though your Black Desert character has been boosted in their progression at levels normally reserved for late…
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Raph Koster’s MMORPG Stars Reach officially announces paid early access is coming August 18
It’s official, if not surprising, given that we already knew it was happening this summer: Stars Reach is coming to early access on August 18th…
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EverQuest Legends’ release sees at least one small patch and overall stable response from fans
It should come as little surprise to our regular readers here that we’d be checking in on EverQuest Legends after its first full day of release, and by…
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Throne and Liberty’s newest patch adds Archboss Ramux along with new dimensional trials and guild raids
Ramux has landed in Throne and Liberty with the game’s newest patch. This is kind of a mixed blessing. On the down side, it means that you will have to…
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The Stream Team: Pineapple choya racing and tropical transformations in Guild Wars 2
Collecting magic to bring life to a pet rock in Guild Wars 2 is taking a while, but Massively OP’s MJ doesn’t mind. She just found pineapple choya…
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Indie fantasy MMO Misa Online shares eight minutes of pre-alpha gameplay
You may never have heard about Misa Online, a relatively new indie project on the scene, but pretty much think about it as if you were living in a Chicken…
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Multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace celebrates early access launch with community events
Kickstarted multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace has officially launched into early access this week and is celebrating with community events for PvE and PvP. The initial…
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Zeus: God of Arrogance is an upcoming Korean MMO steeped in Greek mythology and naughty gods
The Greek god Zeus must have a terrible PR agent because he’s getting slandered in an upcoming Korean MMORPG called Zeus: God of Arrogance. We thought it…
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 573: Project Demogorgon
Justin and Bree discuss SpiritVale's launch, DDO Terror of Demogorgon, Overwatch, FFXIV Mobile, and the situation with Shroud of the Avatar and the Ultima…
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Indie MMORPG SpiritVale sees 20,000 concurrent players as the dev fights economy-wrecking bots
If you’re the kind of person who sees an indie chibi MMORPG launch and thinks, “You know, I should go find a way to exploit that game, maybe even…
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Gods Death & Reapers maps out new arenas, a party system, and its upcoming early access features
Last May saw Gods, Death & Reapers, the PvPvE extraction RPG from Wolcen Studio, host its fifth closed alpha playtest, which MOP’s own Sam Kash…
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Mabinogi’s latest update, Martial Hearts, drops two new Arcana talents for players to explore
Let’s not mince words, Mabinogi calling its latest update “Martial Hearts” is a dope play on words. And it’s also the core of two new…
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Albion Online recaps its last year of major updates and looks ahead to the arrival of dragons
We’ve already noted how Albion Online’s ninth anniversary is being marked with delicious cake and murderous statues, but no anniversary is complete…
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Palworld has now hit nearly a million concurrent players since its 1.0 launch
After what feels like almost forever in its early access state, Palworld has launched into 1.0, and players have responded with… well, playing the game…
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Controversial ex-blockchain MMO Soulbound Online has officially entered early access
We’re having a bit of a week for low-key launches here in the MMORPG genre, and here comes another one: SpiderWare’s controversial “pixel-art…
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Choose My Adventure: Some mental blocks start to surface in the hard reset of Destiny 2
Have you ever had those games where you realize they’re uninstalled but you haven’t visited them in a while, wondered why it was you wiped them…
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MMO society life sim SEED arrives in early access today after nearly a decade of development
MMORPG “society life simulator” SEED – not to be confused with the other MMO called Seed that shut down 20 years ago – is officially…
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Wuthering Waves confirms that an animated series for the gacha RPG is in the works
Would you like some anime from an anime gacha RPG? Then you’ll be happy to know that Wuthering Waves will indeed be getting the anime treatment thanks to…
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The Guild Reunion Movie: Ren Faire’d has already funded on Kickstarter with over $2.5M in less than a day
When Felicia Day first announced that she was planning a reunion movie for the 19-year-old webseries The Guild back in March, there was a bit of consternation…
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Marathon’s mid-season update adds a temporary PvE roguelike mode and several balance tweaks
Let’s stick a pin in the fact that Marathon is hemorrhaging talent right now and focus on what the remaining Bungie devs have released for the shooter…
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Stars Reach says it’s ‘an update or so away’ from early access, promises ‘big chonky updates’ in the future
Sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach really is just about to move into its next major stage of development: That’s the takeaway from the latest developer…
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Riot Games backpedals on League of Legends Classic requiring payment for classic skins
So Riot Games had what sounded like a pretty basic plan to take League of Legends and create League of Legends Classic, but that plan hit a snag almost…
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The Daily Grind: What are your early access MMORPG must-haves?
My distrust of early access MMORPGs and really all early access games is hopefully well established at this point, but if not… y’all, I’m not…
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The Stream Team: Squashing No Man’s Sky’s Swarm
Previously, a timing bug prevented Massively OP’s MJ from finishing up No Man’s Sky’s expedition. Neither a bug nor a full Swarm of them is…
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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Zeverland, Blossom & Decay, and Astral Frontier Online
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! For the most part, we’re falling into the more widely…
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Online RPG Everwind recaps its early access to date: ‘We couldn’t have gone far if you hadn’t stood by our sides’
It’s now been four months since the Minecraft-looking survivalbox Everwind went into early access, and the team behind the game took a moment to reflect…
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Sci-fi multiplayer sim Starship Simulator says it’s using AI dev tools to increase productivity
It’s been quite some time since we checked in on Starship Simulator, the multiplayer co-op game from indie Fleetyard Studios where players crew a massive…
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Multiplayer train-centric survivalbox EverRail roars its way down the early access railroad tracks
A-hoo-wee da-hoo-wee, ol’ clickety-clack’s a’echoing back, but that’s not the sound of an old bluesy standard; it’s the arrival…
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RuneScape rebalances the mid-game, Old School RuneScape adds the isle of Wyrmscraig July 29
Like most things RuneScape, Jagex has been talking up its mid-game rebalance effort for some time now, but at last that talk has transformed into a full…
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Electronic Arts wants a world where in-game advertisements are standardized across the industry
This may not be bad as the time when then-Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello suggested gamers pay real-world money to reload their in-game guns, but we have…
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Star Trek Online: Undiscovered comes to consoles next week with a ‘reimagined’ Klingon storyline
When I was a teen in the early ’90s, my absolute favorite Star Trek movie was The Undiscovered Country. And so Cryptic sent a major nostalgia bomb my way…
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Necesse teases its July 30 Rust & Romance update with NPC relationships, biomes, and bumper cars
When Necesse began teasing its new update last week, I certainly wasn’t expecting one this massive – nor one with this theme. It’s called…
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City of Titans discusses Unreal 5.7 upgrades, procedural generation, and enemy combat AI
Kickstarted indie superhero MMORPG City of Titans has rejoined the development conversation today as studio has just released a Q2 update. Missing Worlds Media…
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MMORPG fans plead for in-game Jimothy pets after devs create mock-ups of the viral critter
If you’ve been on social media for any length of time, you probably are familiar with the viral sensation that is Jimothy, a raccoon in Seattle…
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Wisdom of Nym: Bold predictions for Final Fantasy XIV’s second fan festival
At the time I type this sentence, we’ve got a week to go until the next fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV, and this time I don’t think the…
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EVE Online plans to scale back force projection to allow smaller groups a chance to be competitive
It’s exceedingly tough to be a new kid — or a new corp — on the block in EVE Online these days, as nearly a quarter-century of live service…
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Crystal of Atlan CN opens a ‘season server’ with tweaks to content, progression, and trading
Crystal of Atlan calls itself an MMO, but what if instead it did the ARPG seasonal thing while also opening up a few of the lockouts to make it a wider MMORPG…
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Roblox’s new mobile Build tool lets users create entire games for the UGC platform with an AI text prompt
If you can’t be arsed to follow instructions, guides, or your own inner curiosity and drive, but still want to make a game on the Roblox platform, then…
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Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Terror of Demogorgon expansion gets a July 22 release date
We’ve known since all the way back in May about the next expansion for Dungeons & Dragons Online. It’s got a demogorgons, it’s got the…
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Marathon’s game director resigned from Bungie for ‘something new, somewhere else’
It’s only been just under a month since Sony laid off devs at Bungie and its studio head stepped down, yet the bad news continues to come out of the…
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Here’s how Aion 2’s five-day head start will work, from servers to auction houses to party play
Assuming you’re the sort of person who is not repulsed by the monetization model of Aion 2’s global launch, then you might be wondering just how…
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The Daily Grind: Does your MMO have a rivalry with another game?
Today’s Daily Grind was inspired by the weird rivalry we saw between Destiny 2 and Marathon at the beginning of the summer when Sony forced Bungie to…
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MMO Week in Review: Lament for Elder Scrolls Online
The MMORPG genre is still reeling from Microsoft’s financially absurd decision to nuke a large portion of the Elder Scrolls Online team –…
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Brightfall is a co-op survival crafting game set on a cursed Celtic island that consumes light and minds
Yep, it looks like we’ve got another multiplayer survivalbox coming forth, but this one seems to lean pretty heavily on thematics and higher degrees of…
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The MOP Up: Crimson Desert adds a cross-save feature across all its platforms
Hopping between gaming platforms got a lot easier as a Crimson Desert player, thanks to this past week’s inclusion of a cross-save feature on…
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Retro-styled MMO Hollowed Oath lets you get beat up while you’re offline (for a while)
In the cutthroat world of hardcore MMORPGs, players will exploit anything to their advantage — including ejecting from the game if it keeps their…
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Whatever happened to Unleashed Games’ cooperative-focused MMORPG Haven?
Back in 2024, we started our reporting on Haven, an upcoming MMORPG from developer Unleashed Games (not to be confused with Unchained Entertainment) that was…
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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s weekly dev report is a cornucopia of more tuning, tweaking, and polishing
The second verse is the same as the first for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s latest weekly development digest, in that it’s mostly noting efforts…
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One Shots: Quick, save your game!
The old school gamer in me sees this picture and immediately gets flashbacks to save points. Whenever you come across a peaceful spot like this, it’s as…
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The Daily Grind: How invested are you in your MMO’s lore?
It’s not exactly a surprise that I am a Lore Guy. Now, that may seem a little off-spec considering that I am also the person who is very fond of letting…
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Hytale plots goblins, gadgets, and dungeons for Chapter 1, future updates on world gen, UI, and crafting
Hypixel Studios hasn’t just opened up the comms for Hytale; it’s broken the information dam and let it flood out in what the studio notes as its…
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Erenshor’s solo dev discusses retention issues, the use of LLMs, and the MMO sim’s path to 1.0
Brian Burgee, the sole developer for the single-player MMORPG sim Erenshor, has a whole lot to say about where things stand and where they’re going…
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Bethesda confirms new Fallout 76 expansion, closer partnership with ZOS on Elder Scrolls franchise
Now that Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax Online Studios are gut shot by layoffs from Microsoft, the studio is arguably in damage control mode, issuing a…
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The Stream Team: Approaching the Hive in No Man’s Sky
Now that community has advanced the expedition, Massively OP’s MJ can take advantage of the chance to finish up The Swarm in No Man’s Sky. But…