Highly sus game Among Us added three new roles with its latest update: Tracker (keep tabs on Crewmates via the minimap), Noisemaker (make noise when you die to alert the crew), and Phantom (turn invisible and make your getaway).
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)!
Metallica is now in Fortnite? For some reason? Listen, we stopped trying to make sense of this game’s worldbuilding a long, long time ago.
Nexon’s new Dungeon & Fighter Mobile is having a great month over in China, where the iOS game has topped the revenue charts for four straight weeks. And over in DNF Duel, the game welcomed “another elite fighter to its roster with Nen Master, a master of the elements who fights with bursts of kinetic energy and martial arts skills.”
Multiplayer treasure-hunting game Hawked is running a “Bjorn’s Secret End of the World Summer Beach Party.”
“World of Tanks proudly announces its co-sponsorship of the FV4005 Restoration Project in partnership with The Tank Museum. With a shared dedication to preserving military history, World of Tanks is co-funding the restoration of the FV4005, a significant piece of the United Kingdom’s armoured warfare heritage.”
Uncharted Waters Origin added Zheng He admiral and four new mates.
Sky: Children of Light hosted this month’s Days of Color event to complete a rainbow puzzle.
DDO pumped out a small patch that rolled back an update to OpenAL to “correct an issue where voice chat was not functioning.”
League of Legends gave some insight into its champion Aurora, saying, “We’re sure you’re wondering, ‘What does a bunny with a floppy hat and equally floppy ears have in common with a primordial demon?’ Well, to answer that, we need to go back to the beginning.”
Elsword Online revealed its newest character, Lithia, “a free-spirited magician and treasure hunter commissioned by the Biological Resources Society to explore the recently restored capital of the Ancient Kingdom, Elyanod:”
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!
