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The week around Easter is often quiet in the MMO space, but we still got some big news: Guild Wars Reforged delivered another sweet new content update, Stop Killing Games is turning heads in European politics, MechWarrior studio Piranha Games was slapped with layoffs, Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era has a new early […]

Lineage II is still marking its 22nd anniversary, which means that overseas fans have gotten some of their questions about the MMOARPG answered by the devs in Korea. Of course, whether those answers are satisfactory is likely based on who you ask. The 15-minute Q&A video moves all the way through the game’s multiple servers, from Samurai […]

Fantasy MMO The Quinfall announced that it’s lost “a limited amount” of data after a global disruption beyond its control. “Due to a global technical issue affecting Amazon’s Middle East servers, which occurred beyond our control, a temporary disruption has impacted our website and the Twitch Drops system. Throughout this process, our highest priority has been […]

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Yep, we’re back! And this time we made sure to keep our dirty boots in the mud room. Your freshly mopped floors are safe. This time. Phantom Line Would you like to fight spooky things with ballistic firepower? Then you might […]

The eggs of strange and mysterious creatures are scattered all about EverQuest II’s landscape, and players only have a limited time to find them and exchange them for prizes before this year’s Beast’r Eggstravaganza wraps up on April 9th. The annual event challenges players to find classic and “advanced” eggs in specific zones for pets, […]

For Star Trek nerds, First Contact Day is either a celebratory moment in the series’ lore, a good film, or both. But for fans of Star Trek Online, First Contact Day is going to be the day when they can earn the keys to a free T6 ship for the game on either PC or console. […]

Wow, it has been a minute since we’ve seen The Secret World show up in this space, but hey, there’s always room for some spooky screenshots, even in April! And Katriana dug out one of the creepiest of them all from an experimental facility that you don’t ever want to visit. “Haven’t been playing MMOs […]

For some reason, I’m thinking about the moon today. Who knows why. While the actual moon is cool (it’s hard to get to and there’s not a lot there, sure, but it’s also a glowing space rock human beings can walk on), a lot of MMORPGs have sent us to moons over the years. Sometimes […]

Are you curious about EverQuest Legends? Can you manage to wait for weekly video digests from developer Game Jawn? Then you’re in luck because the studio has launched the first episode of its Insights video series to introduce curious fans to the game and its features. As one might expect, this is more of a setup […]

Why do you check out the monthly newsletter for Last Epoch? Is it for development insight? Some fan-made content? Or maybe you’re hoping for a sneak peek at what’s next? Well the April edition of the newsletter did indeed provide as much, though it’s all quality-of-life stuff. Still, they’re probably welcome previews for fans all the same. […]

Regular readers know by now how Camelot Unchained is an RvR sandbox, but obviously that comes with a variety of very specific design decisions that spring up from that foundation. That’s the overall topic of the MMORPG’s latest video, which generally talks about tying RvR gameplay with game design. This dev vlog effectively goes over some general […]

Hey, guess what? Hollowed Oath has once again put foundational MMORPG game systems into its latest build! Facetiousness aside, the pace with which developer God Mode Games has been making these strides is certainly notable. Or as the notes put it, “Another week, another month’s worth of progress.” This time around the team has put together more […]

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 after chewing on his take for a while, I have to agree. […]

Earlier this week we reported on a lawsuit filed in France by consumer advocacy group UFC-Que Choisir against Ubisoft for the way it sunsetted The Crew. As we noted then, the filing was fully supported by Ross Scott’s Stop Killing Games initative, and in his latest video he talks about the impact it could have on the […]

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As we enter this Judgment-Free Zone today — Chris swiffered up the remaining judgment from yesterday’s Daily Grind, don’t worry — we have to ask something we’re a little curious about: Do you ever play MMORPGs when you technically shouldn’t be? Do you sneak in a gaming session, maybe to check your auctions or reset […]

Highway to the danger zone. Clone fight in the danger zone! When Massively OP wants to get funky on a Friday, she looks for something really interesting. And by interesting, we mean something quirky, crazy, or very weird. Robot gladiatorial battles? Oh yeah, that checks! MJ discovered Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. Here she’ll […]

Before now, you could not have them, but RuneScape Dragonwilds has added dedicated servers with its latest update! That’s right, unlike other updates where the servers refused to commit and wanted to keep their options open, the latest patch adds more quest content and dedicated servers that’ll just be with you, baby. I am being informed by […]

What’s it like to be one of the Fae in Stars Reach? Any MMORPG roleplayer knows that there’s a certain degree of having to just guess and figure things out, but the developers have put out a roleplaying guide so that players can be forewarned and forearmed. Not four-armed, though, the Fae have two arms and […]

We here at MassivelyOP have had some fun with PEAK, the smash hit co-op game where a small group of players tries to scale a dastardly series of sheer climbs to reach the top of a mountainous island. Though the game’s popularity has sort of leveled off, it’s still extremely busy, and we’ve even streamed it […]