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Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising! It started out a bit of a nail-biter, but it looks as if God Mode Games’ Hollowed Oath will pull off its Kickstarter after all. […]

Fun fact: Unicornalia, RIFT’s festival that celebrated these majestic beasts with one horn and a ‘tude, debuted all the way back in August 2015. Since then, the event has returned at least once a year (and sometimes more) to the delight of fans of this mythological creature. That’s all to say that Unicornalia is rearing […]

Once again, we’re opening this Tree of Savior news story by pointing out that there are technically two global variants of the MMOARPG: the one operated by original developer IMCGames, which is still running to this day, and the version operated by Papaya Play, which has announced that it will be closing up shop on Tuesday, June 16th. […]

Before Massively OP’s MJ was sidetracked by pets and pet battles in No Man’s Sky, she had embarked on the mission to earn the assembly pieces for underwater bases at no cost. For just a little time and effort she won’t have to pay to unlock those building blueprints! OK, maybe more than a little […]

Who doesn’t have fun making a ranking list in an enjoyable game or hobby every now and then? I was thinking about all of Lord of the Rings Online’s weapon types lately (my inner life is pretty dull, I guess!) and thought about how some of these tend to be heavily favored by the community […]

There are arguably few game developers in our sphere of interest have as much insight into what can make an MMORPG tick than Jack Emmert, the man behind a wide assortment of Cryptic MMOs who now helms the company once again following the shutdown of his own studio by Netease. So when he had some opinions […]

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The other day we heard from one of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s former lead designer James Ohlen, who said that he heavily pitched a top-down redesign of the MMORPG to make it more like Knights of the Old Republic, only to have it shot down at the 11th hour by EA’s board. “We were […]

It is the crypt that never ends; It just goes on and on my friends! Although AQ3D’s Crypt of Mortis might actually have an end sometime, that time is not now! New floors keep opening up as more parts of the Wandering Light saga launch. Massively OP’s MJ will now delightedly delve into Part IV (with […]

The promised Drakantos test weekend has kicked off and is running until May 24th. I, for one, am very upset about this fact because a pixel MMORPG has no right to look this good. This thing looks so pretty, and here it is just sitting there, trying to lure me into testing. My efforts to make […]

You won’t have to suffer from character creation being worse than it needs to be in Past Fate any longer, as the game’s most recent early access patch improves character creation. This will not help you if your problem are things like taking part in the traditional Pouring of Hot Sauce Into Your Open Eyes before […]

It would appear that the trend of players sticking to old favorites is continuing to play out across the gaming industry’s financial reports, or at least it has for Ubisoft’s fiscal year report for 2026, which has called out increases in net booking for some older releases but overall a drop in profits. The full fiscal […]

This week is a decidedly light one if you’re a regular fan of Black Desert, but there are still some things of note to report on, specifically for the sandbox’s PC version and mobile version, so let’s get into it. The big ticket addition for the PC version this week is a variety of updates to bartering, […]

With an angry evil witch and a dungeon that’s charmingly called “Garden of Corpses,” Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 48.4 sounds as though it’s going to be the kind of party that Bilbo wish he had thrown. If you’d like to get an advance preview of this shindig, then head on over to the […]

As any Kickstarter MMORPG can tell you, the downside of going through a large chunk of development under the public eye is that every fairly normal hurdle is seen by everyone in real time – and often requires apologies for alpha catastrophes that normal closed-door testers wouldn’t need. Stars Reach surely already internalized that lesson, […]

Sure, you likely already drank up the details shared by MOP’s MJ about the upcoming Return of the Ancients update coming to Path of Exile 2’s early access (and if you didn’t, you really should), but there can often be no substitute for full patch notes, and so here they are for you to pore over. As one […]

Let the jabs at Unreal Engine 5 flow freely: Pax Dei has announced on Discord that the planned PTS testing round for its next planned patch has had to be delayed as a result of some very specific technical problems related to a move to Unreal Engine 5.6. According to one of the quoted “tech wizards” working […]

Not content to merely kick off an expansion with three raids, World of Warcraft is making plans to cram in another one with Midnight’s upcoming Patch 12.0.7. This single-boss raid, Sporefall, challenges groups of 15 to 25 players to defeat the mighty foe Rotmire in Harandar. “The fungarians of Sporefall have nurtured a fungal giant […]

EG7 and Daybreak are apparently adding another new studio to their roster – and we’re not talking about Cold Iron this time. The new group is called Ravenwake Games, and it sure does look like a Canadian outfit that will support Daybreak’s MMORPGs. “Ravenwake Games is a Vancouver-based game studio dedicated to building great games,” […]

Well, folks, it finally happened. I’ve been waiting for this to happen, and it did in this installment. See, one of the things I’ve kept saying is that one of the cool things about Warframe is that even the older frames are still useful and relevant. However, the reality is that most of the first few […]