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Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs sell exclusive items – in alpha?
MOP reader Randomness recently wrote to us about a Reddit discussion about games with exclusive item shops before the game comes out. The issue...
Magic Legends doubles spell drop rate, gives a week of free battlepass XP
Cryptic Studios is listening to -- and acting upon -- player feedback regarding Magic Legends following its recent soft launch. In the ARPG's second...
No Man’s Sky adds a multiplayer-focused mode and improved multiplayer missions in the Expeditions update
Remember when No Man's Sky woefully underdelivered with regards to its multiplayer offerings? That seems like so long ago and the new Expeditions update...
Ascent The Space Game is back from stasis with a big client update on Steam
Five or six years ago, indie MMO players were enthralled by Ascent: The Space Game, a sci-fi sandbox made by a solo developer. It...
Elite Dangerous launches phase one of its Odyssey alpha test on PC today
Today is the first step of many for PC players of Elite: Dangerous in something of a literal sense, as the Odyssey expansion has...
Cyberpunk 2077’s latest patch features a lengthy list of improvements and fixes
Cyberpunk 2077 has had yet another significant patch applied to the beleaguered RPG, with another wide swath of targeted improvements and bug fixes for...
Lord of the Rings Online publishes post-Wildwood fixes, struggles with customer service slowdown
If every content update for an MMO is the star of the stage, than the inevitable follow-up bundle of fixes is the understudy waiting...
Trove’s Crack the Court update is live with a new delve biome, hovercycles, and UI mod tweaks
If you follow Gamigo's Trove social media, you've been watching the studio chatter about Cracking the Court all week as it was put through...
No, the Burning Crusade Classic beta has not (yet) begun
Last night it looked as though the highly anticipated closed beta test for World of Warcraft Burning Crusade Classic had started -- but that...
OrbusVR plans a beta for its hard mode raid, new quests, and balancing for tanks and healers in next updates
Whether it's taking on harder content, exploring new farms, or tanking and healing, OrbusVR has plans for the game's next couple of patches, all...
The MOP Up: The Day Before’s romantic apocalypse
Massively OP reader Lily tipped us off that The Day Before's devs recently sat down with WCCFTech for an interview about this upcoming survival...
Torchlight III hoists the sails (and upgrades the engine) for its next update
Hope you got everything done with Torchlight III's Snow & Steam contract because Echtra and PWE disabled that content in preparation for the next...
A modder earns $10,000 for finding a loading issue in Grand Theft Auto Online
Normally modding video games, even ones that are all about earning fat stacks, will not produce fat stacks in real life. But a modder...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 sanctions unorthodox raiding
Just because the devs think you're going to play the game one way doesn't mean that players aren't going to pour a whole lot...
Whatever happened to Snail Games’ Outlaws of the Old West?
In the spring of 2019, Snail Games launched Virtual Basement's then-new survival sandbox MMO Outlaws of the Old West into Steam early access under...
Fallout 76’s Locked and Loaded update isn’t landing until April 27
Fallout 76 players already know that the Bethsoft team's been prepping the Locked and Loaded update this past season, and as of today, we...
Perfect Ten: Ten things that killed me in Final Fantasy XI
In many ways, Final Fantasy XI was a designed copy of EverQuest. It did, however, remove a lot of the elements of that game in particular....
World of Warcraft posts full notes for tomorrow’s Patch 9.0.5
Like a murloc bum-rushing the unwary adventurer, World of Warcraft's Patch 9.0.5 is sprinting toward the live servers. Tomorrow's update is a mid-range patch,...
The MOP Up: Champions Online plumbs the Midnight Depths
The game is afoot -- the Champions Online game, that is! Cryptic pushed out the second part of the Midnight Depths story arc this...
LEGO Universe emulator Darkflame Universe outlines its next steps to closed beta
Let's say you were swimming around in the retrospective of LEGO Universe and it got you pining for the brick fjords, so you look...
