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If you had asked me a year ago what game my whole family would be playing together this summer, I probably would not have guessed Astroneer, but it's happened, which means my kids are going to be thrilled about the game's latest update, which rolled out yesterday to Steam as of yesterday. This patch is basically the second leg of...

The best way to get someone into an MMO is via word of mouth. We accept this fact. And the best way to generate word of mouth? Having it come directly from a friend, naturally. This would be the logic behind the recruit-a-friend program arriving for Dual Universe when it kicks off beta testing on August 27th, with players...

I know we joke that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online, we have been keeping a closer eye on the game lately thanks to the extended technical issues earlier this summer that took the game more or less offline for more than a week. And unfortunately, it looks...

It wasn't until I had been working in this field for a while - and as a result playing a lot of different MMOs - that it really clicked for me how weird it was that Final Fantasy XI didn't have any sort of hotbars. I'd played that game for years, of course. Sorting my lists of spells and...

Once you've reached the level cap in Astellia Online, there's only one option to keep getting stronger, and that's through ever more impressive outfits. Gear is a little weird when you think about it like that, but the important thing is not thinking about it that much but focusing instead on the game adding the ability to fuse gear...

Mandalorians. Who doesn't love them? Certainly not designers; since they're half-defined by an iconic look, you can just put all sorts of people behind the helmet and still evoke fond memories. Shae Vizla hasn't done a whole heck of a lot in Star Wars: The Old Republic, but she's being offered as a free companion to players who subscribe...

Despite what your game's general chat might argue, World of Warcraft wasn't the first MMO and online games didn't magically become a thing with Ultima Online. The real history goes back much further and is more complex than that. If you only have a few spare minutes to get a handle on the vast history of MMOs over the last...

So it became a bit of a running gag in the Massively OP office this week that we became obsessed with August's EverQuest patch. A few days ago, Daybreak put out a notice that the patch was coming, so we started waiting for it, and soon enough it became an internal meme to burst into the office and yell...

While you tread water at Battle for Azeroth's current endgame, World of Warcraft is testing the endgame you'll be experiencing when you arrive there in 2021. Or 2022 - we won't judge your pokey leveling. Over on the public test realm, Blizzard opened up testing for Shadowlands' endgame. Primarily, this test is for the repeatable roguelike dungeon of Torghast, but...

Last night, Amazon announced that it's signed on to an exclusive publishing agreement in North America and Europe with Smilegate, specifically to publish a game from the Korean MMO developer next year. The game isn't actually named; in fact, the only game specifically mentioned in the whole press release is Crossfire, which already has a western publisher. Instead, it's likely...