MMO Week in Review: Daybreak’s Magic (The Gathering), PWE’s new owner

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The week before Christmas certainly didn’t slow down in MMO land: PWE and Cryptic got bought out by Embracer and slotted under Gearbox along with all its MMOs, Daybreak picked up publishing rights on Magic: The Gathering Online, Legends of Aria got bought out by an NFT metaverse company, and Book of Travels saw serious layoffs.

Meanwhile, we’ve kicked off our Year in Review posts and our Golden Yachtie awards, as well as continued our serious awards with MMO Studio of the Year, Best MMO Trend, Most Improved MMO, Best Classic MMO, Story of the Year, Best MMO Housing, Not-So-Massively GOTY,

Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES

Massively OP’s 2021 Awards: Best MMO Trend - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Trend of 2021, which was awarded to the MMO console port craze last year. This award…
Massively OP’s 2021 Awards: Best MMO Housing - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Housing of 2021, which was awarded to EverQuest II and Elder Scrolls Online last year. MMORPGs…
Massively OP’s 2021 Awards: Best Classic MMO - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best Classic MMO of 2021, which is another new award for us as traditionally we merely address…
New World merges several servers across the globe - Following the extreme expansion of New World's server count just after launch is the expected contraction. Amazon just concluded a series of server merges for underpopulated realms across North America…
Massively OP’s 2021 Awards: Most Improved MMO - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Most Improved MMO of 2021, which was awarded to Black Desert last year. All live MMOs, regardless of…

THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS

Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
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