Pantheon’s CEO takes responsibility for problematically chummy staff-community relationship
Last week, we covered Visionary Realms' investigation into one of its own developers after Pantheon players accused said developer of guild favoritism. According to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish ran on a potato? (Not a literal potato)
Not quite a year ago, I asked the MOP readers about the best MMOs for playing on a potato - you know, a crap...
The Stream Team: Hunting with a full complement of friends in Monster Hunter Wilds’ open beta
The second open beta test for Monster Hunter Wilds is on, and MOP's resident critter fighter Chris is definitely ready for more! In fact,...
One Shots: A happy birthday for a death idol
You never stop to think about it -- because seriously, why would you? -- but even lonely cave idols celebrate their special birthdays. Their...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the worst RNG?
Before you get deep in the weeds talking about whether or not random numbers generated on computers are truly random or not, let's just...
World of Warcraft’s charity fox raises over $2 million for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research
Last December, we reported on how Blizzard started selling a special fox-and-backpack bundle in World of Warcraft to raise funds to help cure Duchenne...
Warframe’s TennoCon 2025 tickets sold out almost immediately, leading fans to assume bot shenanigans
If you're a Warframe fan who was hoping to attend Digital Extremes' in-person TennoCon event this year, it would appear that you missed out,...
WRUP: The names I have given all of the forks in my apartment edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about media we thought we'd hate but actually turned out to love.
The Daily Grind: What’s something you simply love about your MMO?
There are many types of love, and so while we don't think that you're romantically involved with your MMORPG -- but hey, no judgments...
Betawatch: Pantheon finally made it to Unity 6
It's been delayed and pushed off many a time, but Pantheon finally launched its big patch upgrading to Unity 6 this week, so we...
The beta for early access tiny MMO Book of Travels preps a patch with a handful of bug fixes
Around MOP, we're still a bit sad that Book of Travels didn't really take off. It was a unique low-combat "tiny MMO" from Might...
The Stream Team: Taking on the challenge of survival RPG IfSunSets
It's an odd mouthful of a game, sure, but it's also an intriguing-looking bit of multiplayer survival RPG gaming. It's IfSunSets and MOP's Chris...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Legendary Flight lands with a thud
Niantic's problem isn't that players are over or have forgiven Pokemon Go's Dynamax/Gigantimax raids - it's that the company keeps pushing them in the...
Pantheon’s Visionary Realms is investigating after players accuse a dev of enriching his guild
We've updated the end of this story with Visionary Realm's investigatory conclusion; in short, it does not believe the dev was guilty but has...
Following layoffs and an exec purge, Star Citizen is slowing down its content and comms cadence
Star Citizen is continuing to beat the drum of its focus on playability and stability in its promised Star Citizen Live broadcast, which brought...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst-managed MMO sunset of all time?
A few weeks back, I asked you about the most painful sunset of 2024. That's not what I mean today! I mean the worst-managed...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
Elite Dangerous fans can enter FDev’s new contest to design a space station for cash rewards
Elite: Dangerous fans are certainly creative when it comes to finding ways to refine combat, ship builds, or in-game grinds, but how creative are...
Steam will finally start warning players when early access games have seemingly been abandoned
It sucks pretty bad to buy an early access game on Steam only to find, belatedly, that the game has been abandoned by the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most nostalgic login music for you?
Look, there are a lot of MMOs I have loved, but I'm not even sorry to say that a part of me is always...
