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Diablo IV’s latest vid breaks down itemization changes, crafting, and The Pit
Last time, Diablo IV put out an itemization explainer video for those who only have a minute. Now, a follow-up video is going a bit deeper, specifically zeroing in on on the OARPG's reborn loot system and the upcoming endgame encounter known as The Pit.
The devs explain how item drops will start off with a primary and secondary stat,...
Echoes of Elysium’s Jeff Hickman talks lore, airship fleets, and Loric’s current development
Loric Games has been on our radar for a few years now, being a studio founded by Mythic Entertainment vets, and last month, the studio took the wraps off the game it's working on: Echoes of Elysium, a multiplayer survival sandbox that edges right up to the MMO line without crossing it and offers a realm replete with customizable...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning hosts a Return to Warhammer event this weekend
If you've ever wanted to see why people loved Warhammer Online back in the day and somehow haven't ever managed to take a spin on the Warhammer Return of Reckoning rogue server, this weekend is a good time to do so. That's because the player devs have launched a Return to Warhammer event complete with Twitch drops and boosted...
Lightforge Games halts social RPG production, downsizes to a skeleton crew
Over the past few years we've been reporting on Lightforge Games, a development studio that entered our general genre radar for snapping up former Blizzard devs including artist Glenn Rane, entering a partnership with Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven studio, and raising $15M in investor funds, all to develop what was described as a social RPG with open creativity and a...
Palia adds new springtime flair and level 5 friendship quests
How good are your friendship values with Zeki, Reth, Tish, and Ashura in Palia? Because the game is hoping to improve them significantly with its most recent small patch, as all four people get new level 5 friendship quests. Along with the new springtime flair added to the login screen, it will hopefully prompt good feelings and hope for...
WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft makes you cheer for removing features
Yesterday, MOP's Justin wrote a column about The Elder Scrolls Online that detailed its key virtues. It's a good column, and one of the things he mentions is that the game does not consistently introduce systems only to completely remove them a couple of expansions down the line. Wink wink, nudge nudge, moon emoji. It was polite of Justin...
Helldivers 2 CEO holds an impromptu Q&A about balance, gameplay, and returning the game to Steam
If you're not among those living inside the official Discord for Helldivers 2 (and nobody would blame you for not doing so since it's kind of a morass), you might have missed the time when Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt hopped in to chat with players, which ended up turning into a sort of brief Q&A session.
The visit by Pilestedt...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2024: Revenues hold steady as Crimson Desert gears up for reveals
Pearl Abyss makes its English financials website a bit of a navigation nightmare, but the company's Q1 2024 earnings presentation is indeed up - which is more than we can say for its financials, which are basically flat.
The Black Desert and EVE Online company ended Q1 with 85.4B KRW - around 62M USD. That's down a half a percent...
Star Citizen showcases the creation of the two brand-new animals coming to alpha 3.23
Land on any planet in Star Citizen currently and you'll be greeted by things like weather patterns, flora, and very possibly a derelict or two. What you won't find are any animals, however. That's going to change with alpha 3.23's release, as CIG has finally put together two animals to populate certain planets. That's not quite three, but it's...
WoW Classic hosts a ‘welcome back weekend’ with free play through May 13 for Cataclysm’s pre-patch
These days, it feels as if World of Warcraft is trying to make you choose whether you want to live with WoW Classic or Retail -- or have bedrooms in both houses. This weekend, however, the former gets custody of you former players as WoW Classic hosts a welcome back weekend of free play.
From now through Monday, anyone with...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest you’ve ever spent working on a specific MMO goal?
The other day, I saw a tweet from Wowhead that quoted Blizzard confirming that it's meant to take a long, long time to collect all the birdies from World of Warcraft's Noblegarden... six years, in fact, and that's not an April Fools' day joke. Something about the revelation provoked my contrary side; it's the kind of grind that seems...
The Stream Team: Dungeons & Dragons Online goes on A Witch Hunt
Massively OP's MJ and her party got a bit of a reputation after breaking up the party of satyrs in DDO. Now, the Feywild's Master of the Wild Hunt wants the group to join in the current hunt to prove their worth. The target? The powerful hag Beatrice, who was terrorizing the Gatekeepers in Stormreach with her two sisters...
Massively Overthinking: Why and how we mod our MMORPGs
Last week, the MOP team was sitting around in our virtual offices, talking about modding Elder Scrolls Online, all because some of our readers were encouraging Chris to pick up some mods for his playthrough for Choose My Adventure. Justin and I started musing on how we approach modding very differently - he doesn't mod much, but I always...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server Empire in Flames turns 7, teases Mandalorian content
Among the multiple Star Wars MMOs with reason to celebrate during this most hallowed of weeks is Empire in Flames, a rare roleplay-friendly Star Wars Galaxies rogue server. As the player team noted, the server has just taken its seventh trip around the sun.
"Today officially marks the anniversary of An Empire in Flames server," the team wrote on May...
Dawn of Defiance is a Greek mythology-themed co-op survival game headed for early access this year
Do you like survival titles like Valheim or Enshrouded but you're tired of the whole Nordic and Viking vibe? What do you feel about that sort of setup but in ancient Greek mythology instead? That's the very broad strokes approximation we can reach with Dawn of Defiance, a newly announced co-op survival title from developer Traega that lets up...
Gigantic patches out crashes and bugs, promises ranked mode’s release soon
Ever since Gigantic made its bumpy return, developer Abstraction has been attempting to provide the TLC our PvP columnist Sam feels it seriously needs. It's that focus on fixing bugs and crashes that headlines the MOBA's latest patch, which attempts to run over several problems for all versions of the game.
The hotfix zeroes in on what Abstraction calls "pressing...
DC Universe Online reruns Spring Seasonal event with new items and adds a new ally in latest patch
The spring season is in full bloom across the heroic and villainous sides of DC Universe Online, as today marks the return of the Springtime Seasonal event, which is running between now and Wednesday, May 29th. And this year's event is absolutely full of colorful rewards.
Players can enjoy springtime cosmetics like fairy wings, elf ears, a thematic new chroma...
Tencent and Control developer Remedy cancel co-op Project Kestrel
Steel yourself for great disappointment: A game that you probably had no idea was in the making has been cancelled. Massively OP grief counselors are standing by to take your call.
Remedy Entertainment, which is famous for its past work on the Alan Wake and Control franchises, announced that itis pulling the plug on Project Kestrel. This was a co-op...
Miracle-Gro asks gamers to film gardening in games from Stardew Valley to Minecraft
This is such a weird crosspromo that I literally dropped what I was doing to write it up because I know this is gonna be a contender for the Golden Yachties at the end of the year: A whole bunch of farming games are the subject of a promotional content/event with Micracle-Gro, which is basically a popular gardening brand...
EA wants to try in-game advertising again, but promises a ‘thoughtful’ approach this time
This year has already provided all kinds of CEO-level lunacy, so what's one more to the pile, right? This latest case of C-suite brainworm brilliance comes courtesy of Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, who confirmed in the company's latest earnings call that he's considering another round of real-world ads in video games. Again.
"As we think about the many, many...
