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The Stream Team: Friday the 13th fun in AdventureQuest 3D
Peanut better and chocolate. Mo and his shield. Chocolate milkshakes and fries. These are all great things that go great together. But you know what pairing is even better? AQ3D and Friday the 13th! Massively OP's MJ has been waiting a long time to be able to celebrate her favorite day in game again, especially since she missed the...
Betawatch: Wrath of the Lich King Classic’s beta approaches this summer
Picture this: The World of Warcraft team is crouched together in a dark room. Somewhere in the distance, you hear wolves howling. There is only moonlight illuminating the room through a narrow, slatted window. "Wrath of the Lich King Classic is coming," whispers Holly Longdale in an effort to raise the team's spirits. "It's coming, and everyone will validate...
Darkfall Rise of Agon explains upcoming changes to PvP alignments and stances
Since Darkfall: Rise of Agon is effectively trying to hit the reset button with a new Steam version launch, reason would stand that some of the game's systems would get an overhaul. Once such system headed for an overhaul is the alignment and stance system that determines how open PvP is handled in the sandbox, the details of which...
Diablo III makes the Echoing Nightmare permanent, Overwatch 2 discusses support hero adjustments
Whether you're a fan of hacking up demons in Diablo III or testing out the new PvP meta in Overwatch 2, there's some news to be had for your very specific interests. We start with D3 and its 10 year anniversary, which is making Season 23's Echoing Nightmare content a permanent fixture to the game, offering up double bounty...
Albion Online begins testing Into the Fray’s magic staff and portal town overhauls
Live on Albion Online's test server as of this morning is the Into the Fray update, which includes an overhaul of multiple mechanics - most especially for casters and PvPers.
Outlands players will notice right away that the old Outlands portal zones are now gone and have been replaced with Portal Towns that share some services with their linked Royal...
Fractured’s latest beta update adds crafting fees and city taxes – sorry
Fractured Online is still in the midst of its no-end-date always-on closed beta test, and yesterday, it paused that beta event briefly in the service of rolling out a new patch.
The update makes no attempt to soothe player complaints about gold-grinding in the game; in fact, it's just the opposite, as it introduces new crafting fees and taxes with...
Arrrrrrr you ready to get murdered by pirates in Elder Scrolls Online High Isles
We're just a bare few weeks away from the launch's of this year's defining Elder Scrolls Online chapter, High Isle, and ZeniMax Online Studios has a warning for would-be endgame players: These waters are infested with pirates.
Indeed, the Dreadsail pirates are the group that raiders will be taking on if they venture into the 12-person trail known as the...
ArcheAge rescinds some exploit permabans and holds a Michael Jackson-inspired dance event
The latest event for ArcheAge clearly Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'. Players of all stripes - whether they're Black or White, a Liberian Girl, or any other nationality - can now be a Slave to the Rhythm and take on King of Dance Jackson for various cosmetics based on a certain performer. Can't imagine who, though.
Between now and May 26th,...
Dual Universe struggles to ship physical Kickstarter rewards to backers
Let this be a lesson to future crowdfunding campaigns: Be very careful about promising physical rewards because they're a whole lot more difficult to deliver than virtual ones.
This lesson is being learned and communicated by Dual Universe's Novaquark, which is apparently struggling to fulfill Kickstarter promises to ship out statues, flash drives, t-shirts, tote bags, and art books to...
You can begin patching for Path of Exile’s Sentinel launch… now [Update: It’s live!]
Happy Sentinel day! Grinding Gear Games is rolling out Path of Exile's Sentinel expansion and league today as planned, so we hope you've got your weekend squared away! If not, you'll want to at least pop over and begin the download.
The servers are expected to go down today at 1 p.m. EDT (that's right as this article goes live)...
Massively on the GO: Talking MMOARGs with Orna’s lead dev
We've talked a bit about Orna: The GPS RPG a few times here in the Massively on the Go column, as this indie game helps define what a location-based MMO can be when compared to the far more simple mainstream success of Pokemon GO. While the latter's broader appeal and focus on getting people at least outdoors gives it a larger...
Storyboard: The fatal flaw of overreaching villain plans in MMOs plotlines
So the other day, a friend and I were talking about villainous schemes in MMO storylines. Specifically, we were talking about why World of Warcraft's whole thing with the Jailer as the Big Bad didn't work out properly but the long-standing Ascian plot in Final Fantasy XIV worked out just fine. And before you say that it's because the...
Inside Star Citizen showcases more AI behavior, river weeds, and a new vehicle physics model
It's time once more for Star Citizen to put out its weekly video series, and in this week's episode followers of the game get to see a wide variety of feature updates and development progress vignettes in another all Sprint Report edition.
As the type of video suggests, this episode moves through a number of previews, leading off with another...
Incoming Pokemon HOME Update will let you bring more ‘mon to multiplayer
While it's still disappointing that Pokemon Legends: Arceus was an open world but almost strictly single-player game, we have some good news for multiplayer fans: Pokemon HOME is getting an update that will allow some of the newer Pokemon games to interact with each other. No, we're not getting multiplayer in Arceus still, but the pokemon you captured there can be moved not only to Sword and...
Lost Ark KR’s director is reportedly stepping down because of health concerns
According to myriad unofficial reports from fans across Lost Ark's official forums and subreddit, the director for the Korean version of the game, Keum Kang Seong Hyung aka Gold River, announced that he will be stepping down as director because of ongoing health issues.
The reveal was reportedly made during a Korean developer breadcast earlier today, when Gold River confirmed...
World of Warcraft is testing a ‘social contract’ for its players in 9.2.5
"For the love of the Titans, please be a decent person to your fellow players."
That is not what the new social contract in World of Warcraft says verbatim on the 9.2.5 PTR, but it's a pretty quick summary of this new feature that's been added to the game. Upon logging in players are expected to scroll through the whole...
Final Fantasy XIV is finishing its housing bug corrections on May 16
As promised, so it has come to pass; a new letter from Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida has confirmed that the housing issues which caused the first housing lottery to turn into a bug-ridden disaster have been fixed. That means that as of May 16th, the correct winners will be listed, and players can go out...
The Division 2 trots out Season 9 with a new Countdown mode, more story
After over three years of live operation, The Division 2 is still delivering the goods for players: This week, Ubisoft pushed out Update 15: Hidden Alliance, which adds a chunk of new content to the cover shooter game.
The update kicks off Season 9, which involves a running storyline and various assorted targets, leagues, and global events. The patch also...
The Daily Grind: Are you sick of crypto and NFT crap in MMOs?
Yesterday, our genre's core subreddit floated a poll to subbers about whether or not crypto and NFT game threads should be characterized as scammy spam and booted to the far ends of the earth. As I type this on Thursday afternoon, there are over 1000 votes, with around a 70-30 split in favor of banning "advertising of MMORPGs that...
The Stream Team: Rolling through Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Red Fens arc
Last time, Massively OP's MJ started DDO's Red Fens quest arc by protecting a drow village from sahuagin invaders. Unfortunately, those fishy pests enslaved some of the Raveneye drow and are forcing them to dig for a powerful artifact within the towering, partially flooded ziggurat at the center of the swamp. Tune in live at 9:15 p.m. as the...
