One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth
Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best options for punching stuff?
In pretty much every MMORPG with a fantasy theme, you have people with gigantic swords. You have spellcasters of some variety with arcane arts....
Make My MMO: My Time at Evershine zooms past 1.2 million dollars on Kickstarter
Cozy multiplayer title My Time at Evershine joins our crowdfunding list in this week's edition of Make My MMO - triumphantly, even, as the...
Aion Classic EU announces an official PvP tournament for October 19
Remember when one of the big ticket features for Aion was its two-faction PvP? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so does Gameforge apparently, as...
Pax Dei plans to scale up to 1M building ‘pieces’ while explaining the system’s fiendish complexity
Pax Dei isn't merely an MMO sandbox looking to copy the crowd; it wants to excel in its building program. Mainframe Studios claims that...
LOTRO Legendarium: Five ways to fully fix LOTRO’s virtue system
Newer players to Lord of the Rings Online may not be aware that the game's virtue system used to be very difficult, requiring certain...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a cozy (pumpkin spice) autumn MMO?
Autumn is upon us in the northern hemisphere, and that means comfy clothes, crisp smells, trips to the cider mill, and supermarkets stocked with...
The Stream Team: The pirates vs ninjas war comes to an end in AdventureQuest 3D
AQ3D's war between the pirates and the ninjas is over. And sadly, Massively OP's MJ's team was not the victor. RIP ninjas. And to...
Betawatch: Throne & Liberty is liberated from beta into launch
We are now truly liberated from talking about the Throne & Liberty beta because the game has launched. You might want to point out...
It’s time to blow up houses in Star Wars Galaxies Legends – plus the devs just upgraded PvP and the engine
OK, so you're not really destroying houses with Star Wars Galaxies Legends' housing pack-up event. I mean, yes, you're calling in an airstrike on...
Eternal Tombs ramps up interest for its October pre-alpha test
After a few weeks off, Eternal Tombs' pre-alpha testing is preparing for another run in mid-October. The hardcore MMO with specialized GM-activated events announced...
Tarisland prepares for Blight Dragon Elegy with a rep-boosting event and more dungeon lore
We still don't know when the Blight Dragon Elegy will be sung by Tarisland beyond sometime in October, but we can probably count Saturday,...
Stars Reach talks Unity, AWS, and how it avoids ‘endless bowls of oatmeal’-esque terrain generation
This week's Stars Reach development blog is a bit more granular than previous releases, but gamers who are curious about the tech behind the...
Ship of Heroes says it’s focusing on polish and better VFX for an ‘eventual launch’
Let's get the bad-but-obvious news out of the way first: Despite Ship of Heroes saying at the top of the year that it was...
Jason Schreier’s new book blames Activision – and the Titan MMO’s cancelation – for Blizzard’s degradation
When Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced he was stepping down from his 27-year-run at the company back in 2018, he didn't give much of...
Throne & Liberty saw over 50K concurrent players last night – and it’s only going up from there
Yesterday, we asked our readers whether they were gunning to play Throne and Liberty, and almost two-thirds of those who responded said they were...
The Daily Grind: How long do you stick with a failing MMO PUG?
MOP's Carlo recently brought this question to the MOP team after he suffered through a particularly bad PUG - that he put together himself...
The Stream Team: The best trials are by fire in Dungeons & Dragons Online
If you know anything about Massively OP's MJ, it's that she loves fire. So it should be no surprise that she'd be drawn to...
Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?
Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
New World’s latest Aeternum vids warn you against baddies and get you in decent gear
Amazon has been understandably busy this week, what with the whole Throne & Liberty headstart and the New World Aeternum launch deets. But the...