Justin Olivetti
Warcraft Rumble touches grass with the Cenarion Family, which you can earn in this week’s event
This summer's all about the Druids in Warcraft Rumble. Blizzard's mobile RTS released Season 7 this week, and with it, the first members of...
RuneScape is getting its own comic book miniseries this fall
Sure, your MMO is cool, but does it have its own comic book? Oh pipe down, City of Heroes players. We hear you. Anyway,...
Homestead Online is an indie MMO that embraces character persistence, permadeath, and base building
An indie MMORPG developer is asking for help to test out a brand-new title that's still in its early days. This would be Homestead...
Global Chat: Looking back at 15 years of World of Warcraft blogging
Fifteen years is a huge chunk of time to devote to both a video game and an ongoing blog covering it, but that's exactly...
LOTRO invites everyone to play Hide-and-Seek on the new Mordor server today
If you're awake and have had your second breakfast already, you might be in time to check out an afternoon stress test for Lord...
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds blows into town next week
Guild Wars 2's Festival of the Four Winds -- or as I call it, "Festival of the Falling Off Stuff" -- is breezing back...
Diablo IV deep dives Spiritborn guardians, Diablo Immortal runs a dungeon event
Which version of Diablo are you playing these days? If it's Diablo Immortal, then you have the opportunity to take part of a "Risk...
The Soapbox: Why MMOs are the ultimate creature comforts
As long as I can remember, I've been an avid fan of re-consuming my favorite forms of media. I used to read the same...
Perfect Ten: 10 times MMOs appeared in TV and movies
It's always surreal when real MMOs cross the divide between niche and mainstream to be referenced in television and films. Depending on how you...
The Olympics now have an official esports event starting next year
Here's some encouraging news for almost all of our readers today: You too can become a genuine Olympic athlete if you're really good at...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are the most and least like their launched versions?
I'm sure we're all familiar with the Ship of Theseus metaphor for online games -- that of a product that has all of its...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 477: The lineage of Lineage
Justin and Bree discuss Throne and Liberty's beta, Ultima Online's New Legacy, New World, Spellfarers, TennoCon, and Soulforge, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, No Man's Sky, and T&L, plus a mailbag topic on the usefulness of MMO mobile apps.
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen posts an early access FAQ, says periodic wipes may happen
Have you wrapped your head fully around the fact that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is coming to early access by the end of...
MultiVersus developer Player First Games has been snapped up by Warner Bros. Games
If there was any doubt that MultiVersus is a hot property after its relaunch this past spring, the fact that its studio just was...
VR MMO Ilysia performs a top-down overhaul of its core systems
It's been a good stretch since we last checked in with Ilysia, a Kickstarted virtual reality MMO that went into early access last fall....
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster argues that a persistent virtual world is ‘too powerful an idea’ to dismiss
Those watching the online gaming genre with a growing sense of dismay at everything drifting away from large, persistent MMO worlds may find solace...
Lord of the Rings Online tentatively eyes July 31st for Update 41 and legendary servers
With a few big things coming in the near future for Lord of the Rings Online, the question is when players might expect to...
Halo’s TV series is canned by Paramount+ but may live on elsewhere
The current adage that there's no TV series on streaming that a platform won't can after two seasons -- even if it's been successful...
The MOP Up: Grim Dawn spices up the endgame with a new mode
OARPG Grim Dawn's third expansion is on the way with a brand-new game mode that should inject some extended life for its playerbase:
"Ascendant Mode...
One Shots: Hey World of Warcraft has housing after all…
This just in, World of Warcraft beat Guild Wars 2 to the punch by instituting the most robust, flexible, and creative housing system ever...