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]

Fortnite returns to service with Season 11 as Save the World players grumble

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This past weekend, Epic Games ended Fortnite's season 10 not with a big bang but with a big crunch when it welcomed players to...
Please come back.

World of Warcraft: Classic is getting Dire Maul today ahead of the rest of Phase 2

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Sorry, guy; you might know Mordenkainen's Magical Watchdog, but you never actually said you were casting it, so now there's ogres. Among other things, anyhow. Yes, World...

Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King has returned once again through November 5

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It's Halloween time in Guild Wars 2 as of today, as Shadows of the Mad King has returned as promised. The gameworld will be...

Choose My Adventure: The Torchlight Frontiers Railmaster suddenly makes perfect sense

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You know that moment when you’re playing a new MMORPG class and there’s this kind of epiphany? That feeling like a switch has been...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Is it time for Guild Wars 3?

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Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, was leaving...

Buy-to-play ArcheAge Unchained is officially live today with the Shadows Revealed update

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Back in August, Gamigo stunned the MMORPG genre by announcing a do-over for 2014 Korean MMORPG ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained: It's a buy-to-play, sub-free...
Style.

The Daily Grind: Where do you go to get your World of Warcraft fix?

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Following last week's nasty Blizzard Hong Kong mess, many players publicly stepped away from the studio and its games, in some cases deleting accounts...

Dark Age of Camelot celebrates its 18th anniversary

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Eighteen years is a long and impressive span for any MMORPG to be kicking around, so naturally an in-game celebration is due for Dark...

Skyforge announces its move to the My.Games store

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This past August, we reported on the global launch of the My.Games store, a digital storefront that first started life in Russia as Mail.Games.ru...

Champions Online and DC Universe Online bring back their Halloween events

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How, exactly, does a superhero -- a person who has to wear a costume -- celebrate a holiday when people wear costumes? By wearing...

Camelot Unchained has solved the problem of animating a cow corpse being thrown by a siege weapon

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Only in the games industry will you consider how to animate a cow corpse thrown from a catapult as a problem and not, say,...

RuneScape opens up dino egg collecting, fixes seagull sounds, and touches on Hardcore Ironman races

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Yep, it's another RuneScape news bundle. Hope you like bulleted lists, friends. Players who are eager to get themselves some baby dinos can now...
Zorp? Phasers don't go zorp.

Star Trek Online’s former lead producer departs Cryptic

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With several series finales and touching moments in history, fans of Star Trek have many ways to say goodbye. Now that former lead producer Maria...

EVE Evolved: Chatting up EVE Online world record holder Ethan ‘Katia Sae’ Richards

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EVE Online player Ethan Richards is best known by the name of his in-game character Katia Sae, who earlier this year completed an incredible...

Neverwinter discusses changes made to random queues and announces a new Tales of Old event

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A pair of posts on the Neverwinter website have touched on a couple of points of interest to players that don't necessarily have much...
FAREWELL!

Wisdom of Nym: Picking apart Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.1 teaser site

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The past week was sure a trip, and a good chunk of it for me was taken up by stuff I didn't want to deal...

SWG Legends teases new dances, flourishes, guild halls, houses, and Halloween

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The SWG Legends rogue server of Star Wars Galaxies is ramping up for its October update, and what better way to show off the...

Black Desert PC sets sail for the Great Expedition update on October 23

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Arguably, the landmass of Black Desert on PC has seen way more updates and attention than the oceans have. On Wednesday, October 23rd, that's...

ArcheAge Unchained’s test server goes dark in prep for launch

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Certain quarters of the MMO community are positively jittering with barely repressed excitement over the imminent launch of ArcheAge's buy-to-play, non-pay-to-win server this week. With...
Gotta go back in time.

BlizzCon protests begin to officially organize in response to the Hong Kong controversy

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In news that will come as no surprise to anyone, word has surfaced of an organized protest scheduled for the first day of BlizzCon....

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