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Singularity 6 interview: Palia is the cozy cottagecore sandbox to beat as it begins closed beta

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The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...

Some Assembly Required: Building and fighting to the Industrial Age in Craftopia

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As I've written before, I'm pretty much stuck in on Craftopia. The seamless world update has done a lot of good for the sandbox...

Roblox aims to be ‘one of the biggest virtual economies on Earth’ through additional creator monetization tools

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Roblox has some immense aspirations for its so-called economy. A blog post from the studio's VP of Economy Enrico D'Angelo offers a broad strokes...

Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we wanted a decade ago

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Back in May, MOP's Justin penned a fun blog piece on his Bio Break blog about the games he wanted all the way back...

The Realm Online’s corporate buyer surfaces with a bizarre website and studio partner

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Over the course of June, we learned the sad news that player-led developer Realm Worlds would be shutting down the current version of The...
Never mind, I'm not real!

Battle Bards Episode 226: Echoes of MMOs that never were

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It’s always highly bittersweet when MMO fans sit back and consider the games that never were — the projects that got far along in...

Roblox unveils a new categorization for games designed for players age 17 and up

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It appears that Roblox is attempting yet another small amount of effort to filter its "experiences," as the player-built games platform unveiled a new...

Whatever happened to Legends of Aria aka Britaria? (2023 edition)

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We turn our gaze away for just a little bit and suddenly a tire fire has sprung forth, and that tire fire is named...

Some Assembly Required: Red Dead roleplay servers succeed where Red Dead Online failed

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One of my all-time favorite single-player game experiences was Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. The underserved Western genre is beautifully realized in this open-world...

Fall Guys Season 4 arrives May 10 with tools that let players build their own obstacle courses

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It sure did feel like Season 3 of Fall Guys went on forever, didn't it? Well we can now all venture a guess as...
Infinite Crisis

The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA

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Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...

Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best

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When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...

Some Assembly Required: My journey through the housing system of Final Fantasy XIV

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It took me years - literal years - but I landed a personal house in Final Fantasy XIV. Not an apartment, not a room...

Perfect Ten: 10 dead MMOs that should be revived for a second chance

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I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...

The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022

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2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...

CODEX moves from being a standalone game to an MMO building and hosting tool

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In August of 2021 we learned about CODEX, a game that sprung from the original engine that powered Shards Online before it shifted to...

Legends of Aria’s blockchain mess gets a new name – BRITARIA – as its token sinks

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The crypto shenanigans around Legends of Aria just keep getting weirder. Readers will recall that Legends of Aria, Kickstarted by MMO players as Shards Online,...

Lord of the Rings Online tours through Before the Shadow’s Cardolan

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Now that Lord of the Rings Online has properly introduced its upcoming Swanfleet zone, the studio's shifting its focus to promoting the other member...

Some Assembly Required: What to expect from Dual Universe’s September 27 wipe and launch

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Having trouble logging into Dual Universe? That's because Novaquark shut down its servers on the 22nd. But don't worry, the space sandbox did not...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO Kickstarters that let us down

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MOP's Chris penned a solid piece earlier this week about the fate that has apparently befallen Destiny's Sword, and as I was editing it,...

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