The Division 2’s update 9.1 makes NPCs just worse all around
Gosh, if the NPCs in The Division 2 were players... well, they wouldn't be NPCs at that point by definition, but they'd also be pretty...
Population Zero’s patch today makes your sprained ankles much less annoying
We're going to take a bold stance here on Massively Overpowered and say that sprained ankles are not fun. They're not fun in Population Zero, either,...
PSA: But seriously, don’t buy vampirism cures in the Elder Scrolls Online cash shop
The Elder Scrolls Online Reddit community has been ablaze this week over a recent in-game promotion in the cash shop that appeared to encourage...
Build your own text MMO with Fableverse’s robust game engine
Have you ever yearned to build your own MMORPG, yet nobody's throwing millions of dollars and big-name developers your way to make that happen?...
Working as Intended: The big list of City of Heroes rogue servers, 2020 edition
It's been a weird and wonderful year for City of Heroes fans. In April of 2019, the expose of a secret City of Heroes...
World of Warcraft’s infamous Leeroy Jenkins raid gaffe is 15 years old
The date was May 11th, 2005. The guild was known as Pals for Life. The location was the Rookery. And the plan was meticulous,...
Something secret is coming to Lord of the Rings Online tomorrow
Lord of the Rings Online has had its fair share of secrets over the years, but rarely is the playerbase given a heads-up that...
Guild Wars 2 has restored the EU servers to Monday morning after multiday rollback
Yesterday, we covered the Guild Wars 2 community's many reports across Reddit and the official forums that the game had suffered a major rollback...
Riot addresses diversity, Valorant toxicity, and Vanguard anti-cheat (again)
It's been a year and a half since a Kotaku expose blew the lid off of flagrantly sexist and abusive behavior at Riot Games,...
CIG’s Articles of Association reveal a partnership that might mean VR for Star Citizen or console launch for Squadron 42
A poster on the Star Citizen subreddit has played an intriguing game of connect the dots that might mean some interesting things for the...
Guild Wars 2’s EU server cluster suffered a multiday rollback this weekend
Back when I first started in MMOs, rollbacks were a daily occurrence, quite literally. Not only was the server likely to crash at least...
Multiplayer shooter Crucible starts stirring the hype with several character reveals
Well, it seems like Amazon Game Studios is all done staying quiet about Crucible. Hot off the heels of a summary video that outlined...
RuneScape talks about what’s next after Archaeology, Old School kicks off the Deadman Mode Tournament
Now that the Arcaheology skill is out in the wilds of RuneScape (as well as the subject of several weekly tune-ups), Jagex has decided...
Xbox X developers include Blizzard, Bungie, Pearl Abyss, and Square Enix
With the console still on track to release sometime during the holiday season later this year, the Xbox Series X is preparing a huge...
Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...
An Old School RuneScape fan has started making an audio drama based on the MMORPG
What do people who love theater do when they can't partake in the theater due to the pandemic? They turn to audio dramas, apparently,...
Working as Intended: Sparking joy in MMOs
On this week's podcast, I mentioned that I'd just finished off Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, something that superficially seems unrelated...
Star Trek Online previews environments for a year of Klingons with the promise of more missions to come
Playing a Klingon in Star Trek Online still feels a bit like being the unloved faction. The faction was originally just there for PvP,...
MusicBattle is a text-based MMORPG about making music and doing crimes
When people say that the music industry is pretty cutthroat, we assume that actual throats aren't getting cut. In the text-based MMORPG world of...
MMO fan creates an infographic to help you choose a game
With such a wide field of MMORPGs out there, it may be pretty daunting to figure out where to start -- or where to...
