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...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming watches a galactic war from the ZeroSpace beta
MOP's MJ and Chris are kicking back, relaxing, and watching a galactic war go down. That sounds dire on paper, but it's fine because...
World of Warcraft’s state of the game vows an improved new player experience and social initiatives
World of Warcraft is surprisingly chatty this Wednesday, with an article on Patch 11.1's cartels earlier today and a housing preview (!) in a...
The Stream Team: Shooting galleries and minigolf in Tower Unite
MOP's Chris is once again hopping into the multiplayer "game of games" that is Tower Unite! Why? Because there have been some more games...
Pokemon Go isn’t canceling its LA tour after the wildfires, but it’s offering refunds
If you were planning on attending Pokemon Go's Unova - Los Angeles tour later this month, there are two things you need to know:...
Players start a #SaveMultiVersus campaign, but is it too little, too late?
It's a testament to the love for MultiVersus that the community has come out in droves in an effort to save the game from...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best-designed MMO raid you’ve ever experienced?
I'll admit that today's topic is taking me into an area in which I'm out of my depth. I've done precious little raiding in...
Classic MMO-inspired web series The Guild is getting the musical treatment with a live reading February 23
Gamers of a certain vintage are probably going to be familiar with a classic comedy web series known as The Guild, but even then...
UK rebuffs game preservationists’ petition to make retroactively breaking old games unlawful
One of the big industry-wide narratives that emerged from the wreckage of 2024 was player-initiated efforts to center game preservation - indeed, even to...
