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The MOP Up: Undecember creates one-player raids
Just because you're a social pariah doesn't mean that you can't raid in Undecember! The hack-and-slash multiplayer RPG pumped out a new patch that...
The Daily Grind: Are there any quadruple-A MMOs?
Ubisoft made headlines earlier this week for claiming to investors that the high pricetag for Skull & Bones was justified because it's a vast,...
The Stream Team: Sailing the open beta seas of Skull and Bones
After seven worrisome delays, it's finally time for MOP's Chris to get his hands on the open beta of Skull and Bones! Will this...
Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release
Ubisoft's long, long delayed pirate "co-op pirate open world action RPG" MMO Skull & Bones has finally set sail with a soft launch into...
Actress Michelle Rodriguez demos Skull and Bones’ intro and events in latest video
Earlier Skull and Bones offered up a look at what general gameplay and endgame looks like in its last video preview, but now we're...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Sneak Out, ManaSoul, Rise of Mythos aka Kings Call
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you've probably never heard of (but we'll be impressed if you have).
Sneak Out
Sneak Out is for some...
Skull & Bones’ free open beta begins February 7 – here’s the new trailer and season preview
Ubisoft is hyping up the free open beta for Skull and Bones, and we have to note right up front that while the devs...
Bungie announces genius Destiny 2 collab with BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise
This week in transmedia synergy crosspromos that will break your brain along with the sanctity of whatever canon is left to us in MMOs...
Skull and Bones previews its endgame takeovers, heists, bosses, and ship combat
If there's a genre of dev blog I like least, it's the one where studio staffers pretend to offer an unbiased blog post or...
Ubisoft’s Echoes of History podcast focuses in on the historical figures of Skull and Bones’ setting
Ubisoft's upcoming Skull and Bones is inspired by and set in a time period widely known as the Golden Age of Piracy, specifically the...
Baldur’s Gate 3 boss pushes back against the industry’s renewed ambition over games subscription models
This week offered another example of executive foot-in-mouth disorder when Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay suggested in an interview that games subscription business...
Ubisoft talks up its subscription services and making gamers ‘comfortable’ with not owning titles
Allow us a moment to lean back in our rocking chair, coddle a cup of sarsaparilla, and look up at the sky as we...
Skull and Bones celebrates ‘hundreds of thousands of players’ in closed beta, teases open beta soon
Whether you believe Ubisoft Singapore or not, the studio is more than happy to toot its horn over Skull and Bones' successful December closed...
The MOP Up: Magic Awakened deepens the mystery of Hogsmeade
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened rolled out its January patch with a new seasonal chapter, Luna Lovegood card, and a gauntlet mode to try.
"Continue the...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 450: Sour cream in caves
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, The Crew's sunset, Palia's Switch launch, Black Desert and New World's 2024 plans, Age of Water, and the Year of EverQuest, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, SWTOR, and Project Gorgon.
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
Ubisoft’s 2014 racing game The Crew 1 is sunsetting in March 2024
2023 has one more thing to take away from the greater MMO genre: Ubisoft is sunsetting The Crew, the original game in the driving...
The Division 2 announces overhauls to PvE and PvP with its Project Resolve seasonal update
Ubisoft is full of determination, or at the very least resolve, as the studio has laid out plans for Project Resolve, a seasonal update...
Skull and Bones’ December 14 closed beta will impose a six-hour total playtime limit
Do you have six hours' worth of free time between December 14th and 18th that you can spare to slake your curiosity about Ubisoft's...
