Star Trek Online delivered a small surprise this past week with visual improvements to its iconic Spacedock: “In essence, we’re replacing the exterior System Space model of ESD. The current model has grown long in the tooth, and beyond that, we’ve seen a canon update to the Sol system via Star Trek: Picard.”
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
A couple of Cyberpunk 2077’s characters have joined the fun over in Fortnite.
“One of the best lessons we learned from Creator Season is that our community likes events that are easy to qualify for and have good prizes. So we are running back our series concept [this] week starring the recently-refreshed (and re-popularized) Modern format,” shared Magic Online.
Getting sued by Nintendo for Pokemon likeness? Eh, go ahead and release Palworld on Nintendo’s Switch anyway! That’ll work out well!
Xbox Game Pass may be getting the O.G. Diablo very soon.
EVE Online handed out its December economic report to everyone.
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore talked about its Update 3.5.2 with unbreakable Spirit Tools, melee range tweaks, and the upcoming Scholar path.
Undecember kicked off its Trials of Power season with new stories and dungeon events.
Ultima Online players may be seeing better performance thanks to a move to upgrade the system hardware: “We are migrating all shards to newer hardware with our cloud service provider.”
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis showed some work-in-progress of Frieren cosmetics.
Elsword is starting the year with a slew of events, including the Hyper Punch Master event, +11 Vestige of Soul Provision event, and the Carefree Collection event.
Overwatch dished out a few small hero balance adjustments with a hotfix.
“Three new New Year Packs are being added to the in-game store! These can be found in the Bonus Room, and will be available until January 22nd,” Lost Ark said.
Torchlight Infinity talked about its new Arcana season with features such as the Wheel of Destiny, Tarot Trials, the playable hero Iris, and a new growth system called Destiny.
Valorant showed off gameplay footage from Tejo:
Apex Legends is thrilling its constituents with an Astral Anomaly event, now running through January 20th:
Get pumped up for 2025 in League of Legends with this cinematic:
The MMO industry pumps out more and more news every year – no site could possibly cover everything. That’s why we gather together all the extras every week in The MOP Up, our a weekly compilation of MMO info we don’t want lost in the cracks of time. Send us your news bits through our tips line!
