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Lineage II launches limited-time stat-buffing spellbooks to its store and a new free-to-play game

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At this point, there are so many varieties of the Lineage series that my eyes are about to cross themselves. Between mobile versions, the...
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Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online will finally hit PC on November 5th

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Oh, thank goodness. At long last, Red Dead Redemption 2 has been announced to be arriving on PC November 5th, with pre-purchase available on the Rockstar...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Raph Koster is making a new MMO and just raised $2.7M in seed funding to do it

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So, who wants a new and well-funded MMORPG from the guy who literally wrote the book on virtual worlds? I knew you would. Raph...

Angeldust offers a large-scale sandbox MMO world with a selectable visual style

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The world of early access gaming still has a few surprises out there for us MMO players. One of these is the game Angeldust,...

Dot Big Bang is a voxel sandbox that lets you create your own objects and worlds for multiplayer shenanigans

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I miss the ever-loving heck out of Landmark. Way more than I expected to, actually. Or, perhaps more specifically, I miss the potential that...

Multiplayer monster sandbox Day of Dragons just funded for over half a million dollars

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Day of Dragons has gotten just a sliver of coverage here on Massively OP as it headlined a crowdfunding column, but today it's getting...
oh dear

Forsaken World is a new mobile version of Forsaken World (the non-mobile version)

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All right, hands up for everyone who remembers Forsaken World Mobile back in 2015. It launched back then, really, and it promptly got zero traction...

Ember Sword is an upcoming MMORPG with a blockchain-based monetization scheme

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By Ember Sword's reckoning, the MMORPG genre is in decline thanks to insidious monetization practices like lootboxes and pay-to-win items. So what do you...
Whoops.

Astellia Online formally launches tomorrow night – here’s what to expect

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Astellia Online's big day is almost here: After a week of staggered headstart access for pre-order players, Barunson's MMORPG will officially launch Saturday the...

Black Desert Mobile opens pre-registration on iOS and Android as downloads swell to 10M

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Pearl Abyss has been teasing Black Desert Mobile's global launch for the better part of 2019, promising at E3 that it'll hit global devices...

Dauntless 1.0 has officially launched with today’s Aether Unbound update

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It's a new dawn for Dauntless and its over 15 million players. Today marks the official launch of the multiplayer action RPG, bringing a...

Cyberpunk MMO Zenith just raised more than a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter

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For the last many weeks, we've been covering the Kickstarter drive of Zenith, a cyberpunk MMO courting both PC and VR players. As of...

First impressions of Caravan Stories: More a gacha game than an MMORPG

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When I was in college, my algebra professor once told me to curb my enthusiasm because inevitably, some thing or other will disappoint me....
Oh, oh, oh, it's Magic.

Cryptic is hiring (again?) for its Magic: the Gathering MMO

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The Cryptic-developed MMO based on Magic: the Gathering has entered several periods of long silence from the studio, but the latest post about hiring...

PWE’s mobile sandbox MMO ReEvolve resurfaces with new pics and promises

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Back in 2018, Perfect World brought a couple of new games to E3, one of them being ReEvolve. At the time, it was described...

ArcheAge Walk is a location-based mobile game coming to Korea (and not a prank)

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If you needed any additional evidence that we are living in the weirdest timeline, look no further than ArcheAge Walk, the newly revealed mobile...

Astellia Online is launching into its first headstart tonight – are you playing?

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If you picked up the Legendary Pack for Astellia Online, then launch day is tonight for you, as the headstart begins at 8 p.m....

Maelstrom’s naval style of battle royale goes free-to-play

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Okay, so what if there's a battle royale game, except the land is water, the collapsing ring is an ocean infested with giant sea...

PlanetSide Arena has officially launched into early access – here’s the new trailer

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Delays are in the past: "Massive" battle royale PlanetSide Arena is officially hitting early access today, rolling into what Daybreak is calling the "first...

Antares Open World is an outrageously ambitious new MMO sandbox being built with SpatialOS

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Let's take a quick break for what's fast becoming MMO Anniversary Week around here for a peek at a brand-new MMO still on the...