Desert Oasis: Unearthing the origin story of Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss
On our side of the pond, the exploits of various popular video game companies and their founding are well documented. But when it comes...
Book of Travels is turning off permadeath and reviving all your dead characters
Permadeath: If you're an MMORPG player, you probably hate it, but hey maybe you're one of those rare folks who don't. Either way, it's...
WoW Factor: The player council is not the solution to World of Warcraft’s ills
So World of Warcraft is going to establish a player council to offer feedback to the developers. What a terrible idea with already poor implementation...
DC Universe Online makes ally purchases account-wide, updates early endgame scaling and buffs
There's been a patching applied to DC Universe Online, and while it's a bit thin in terms of content, it does have a number...
EVE Fanfest set to return as a ‘COVID-safe event’ in May 2022
"The gate is green -- and EVE Fanfest is returning!" After two years off for some reason or another, EVE Fanfest is preparing to...
LOTRO: Fate of Gundabad is still on track to launch next week — but several features are being delayed
Lord of the Rings Online's newest expansion, Fate of Gundabad, looks to be on track to launch next Wednesday, November 10th, bringing new adventures...
The Daily Grind: Do you support MMOs that you don’t like or play?
Last month when Book of Travels launched, I caught a comment from a MOP reader, Kothoses, who said something that really grabbed me. He...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
Star Wars The Old Republic will release its next Operation in January so players can get geared up
The variety of things coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic with the Legacy of the Sith expansion are pretty game-changing, all things considered....
Blade and Soul Revolution to merge its global servers together
Even revolutions have to take a breather and consolidate now and then. And so it is for Blade and Soul Revolution. The mobile title,...
Lineage W hires actor Kit Harington to promote the mobile MMO’s launch
Using real-world actors and celebrities to promote an MMO is definitely nothing new, since it can bring a lot of attention or even a...
Crowfall plans more small-scale PvP options for patch 7.3000 arriving on November 8
The big marquee feature of Crowfall's next major update is all about letting fewer people fight one another. The 7.3000 update is bringing with it...
New World addresses economic deflation, trade post linking, cross-region transfers in 4400-word post
Late last night, Amazon published a dev blog addressing even more of the major topics facing the New World community - including promises about...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Charles Boyd on BioWare, newbie acquisition, economy, and beyond
So it’s been two years since I wrote a piece on Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’m sorry. You’ll have to tell me what...
Raph Koster’s ‘modern sandbox MMO’ is teasing concept art for the first time
Back in 2019, veteran MMO developer Raph Koster announced he was finally making a new MMO. In the ensuing two years, he's raised millions...
First Impressions: Lost Ark’s beta version feels like the MMOARPG for folks who are bad at ARPGs
I’ve probably started and restarted this impressions piece about three different times now, primarily because I’m not entirely sure where to begin with Lost...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s investment call was all bad news for World of Warcraft
Tuesday's investor call for Activision-Blizzard was not what I would generally call good news for the company across the board, but the reality is...
Gamigo is teasing one of its promised pipeline games – and it’s an MMORPG
Earlier this year, when Gamigo laid off a large chunk of the RIFT developer team, the studio told us that it had "numerous new...
Lord of the Rings Online’s speedy server zips ahead to Siege of Mirkwood
Even as its slower brother Treebeard remains mired in the original Shadows of Angmar Content, Lord of the Rings Online's fast progression server now...
New World’s patch this week tackles gold spammers, exploits, and respec costs
New World's servers are going down this morning for what will hopefully be only a three-hour maintenance window and patch process. So let's kick...
