MMORPG

MMORPGs are massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, our core focus here on Massively OP. MMORPGs are traditionally differentiated from mere multiplayer games by their persistent worlds, massive playerbases and/or servers, customizable character development, and always-online status. [Follow the MMORPG category’s RSS feed]

Flameseeker Chronicles: Everything you need to know about Guild Wars 2’s April 2016 update

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Today is the day, people: I'm hoping you're all willing and able to log in and follow along with the Q2 update patch notes...
Perhaps like this, but with pants for ladies?

TERA brings back the Abscess for a limited-time event

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Do you want to venture into a dungeon called "The Abscess?" Of course you do not. That sounds disgusting. Your life would be objectively...

Children of Ur adds skills and buffs to its alpha

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What's a Glitch remake without a hearty dose of skills and buffs? A poor remake, that's what! Fortunately for Children of Ur, the TinySpeck-sanctioned...
So you're accelerating.

Star Citizen on power, insurance, and minimum viable products

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Do you have a problem in your life with an increasingly skeptical car insurance provider? The first time you bring in your car covered...
No need for the fire, the spear hurt enough on its own.

Black Desert’s Korean version previews the Musa’s awakening

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The Musa isn't yet here for North American Black Desert players, but you can still look forward to the awakening for the class. Korean...

Aeria Games to publish Bless Online in the west

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It's happening, people, it's really happening. Bless Online is heading to the west, for real, after months of speculation. Aeria Games has signed on to...
Who's dark now?

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG class type you can’t stand playing?

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For me, it's rogues. Ug. It's bizarre because I adore rogues, thieves, and especially stealth archers in single-player roleplaying games. There's never been an Elder...

Exclusive: Origins of Malu suspends development, seeks investors

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These are the days when your job isn't much fun: When you report sad news in the MMOverse. Today's unhappy announcement is that the...

Star Citizen is free to play and test this week for PAX East

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If you've been waiting patiently on the sidelines for a chance to jump into Star Citizen, this week might be the right time. Cloud...
Of course, then you get reminded about the setting.

Neverwinter arrives on the Windows Store for Windows 10

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Those who have already upgraded to Windows 10 have been dealing with the usual issues of a new operating system and associated irritations, including...

RuneScape releases greatly improved NXT game client

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RuneScape has come a long, long way from its days of being a crude assembly of jagged polygons. While the title got a nice visual...
Snipe!

Nexon’s Riders of Icarus plans another round of closed beta

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Announced back in January, Nexon's Riders of Icarus was promoted as a free-to-play action adventure MMORPG with "exhilarating aerial combat." The first beta took...

Beta blossoms on Tree of Life’s branches

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After a year of preparation, Tree of Life's beta test is finally here. The test marks the debut of an almost brand-new look and feel...
The future is dragons, as is the present.

Wisdom of Nym: What we should (and shouldn’t) expect from Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion

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We all know that this year's Fanfest is going to include an announcement of a new Final Fantasy XIV expansion. "Know" might be too...

World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion launches August 30

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Blizzard has just announced that World of Warcraft's Legion expansion is launching August 30th. The standard edition (physical and digital) will run $49.99, while a...

Free Black Desert character slots for all!

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True agony is having to choose which character to delete in Black Desert when the new Musa and Maehwa classes come out because you've...

PWE’s wuxia MMORPG Swordsman is getting a new expansion called Lone Wanderer

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Perfect World Entertainment has just announced a brand-new expansion for Swordsman, its 2014 MMORPG based on the wuxia novels of Louis Cha. Called Lone...

EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Fanfest 2016

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Ask the average gamer what he knows about EVE Online and after the word "boring" and a spreadsheet joke or two, he'll probably talk about stories...

Mabinogi launches first major story update since 2014

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Mabinogi is surely one of the most elaborate MMORPG sandboxes that you're likely to have never played, and it almost slipped under our radar...

Villagers & Heroes is coming to Android tablets

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Villagers & Heroes is one of those underappreciated MMO gems that's been flying under the radar for a while. It might look an awful...