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Despite the backdrop of Frontier Developments setting Elite: Dangerous players on fire with talk about cash shop ship bundles, the studio came together for another Frontier Unlocked livestream to talk more about Powerplay 2.0 and how its various interlocking mechanics will work when it goes live. Players can expand their chosen power's territory by simply doing activities that their chosen...

Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary and World of Warcraft's 20th and there are actually major releases coming from the studio this year. "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in...

ArcheAge isn't the only MMORPG announcing a sunset this week: Kickstarter success Genfanad is apparently closing its doors too. Genfanad is a browser-based nostalgia-driven indie MMO that was first announced back in 2021 and actually pulled in just under $20,000 on Kickstarter. Developer Rose Tinted Games launched the title in 2022, but it never pulled over 2500 players. Last summer,...

After a week-long false start, publisher Gaijin Entertainment and developer Three Whales Studio have brought Age of Water into the roiling and (arguably) crowded seas of multiplayer survival sandbox early access games today. "Civilization as we know it has vanished into the ocean, with everything we know and love laying at the bottom. However, humanity has survived. Brave captains roam...

So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very simply, the meta is just a description of what the game is like beyond the concepts and into the specifics. I didn't even have the time and space to talk about the difference between how...

Just a few weeks ago, the MassivelyOP team gathered round to speculate on what the Classic Guild Wars anniversaries might look like (and what we'd wish them to look like). The game turns 19 this year and 20 next year, meaning that if ArenaNet is going to ramp up into something big to celebrate, now is most definitely the...

All the way back in 1996, Bethesda introduced an interesting feature with its second Elder Scrolls RPG. Daggerfall included "spellcrafting," a system that allowed players to modify and combine spells to make new ones. As it sounds, spellcrafting was a very sandboxy feature prone to exploitation, yet it proved to be popular enough to continue through the sequels. When Gold...

When Daybreak dropped producer letters for EverQuest and EverQuest II earlier this month, the MMORPG fanbase immediately started buzzing about the new progression servers on deck - and this week, the studio is beginning to explain a lot more about what players can expect from them. Let's start with EverQuest II, since it's actually gunning for the Origins server beta...

Yesterday saw Frontier Developments enrage the Elite: Dangerous playerbase when it announced plans to sell pre-built ship bundles in its cash shop, with many players calling the move tantamount to pay-to-win. Shortly after that reveal, Frontier posted a follow-up explainer that gave complete details about two of these upcoming cash shop bundles. The two pre-built ship bundles that were shown...

Believe it or not, this week marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the original City of Heroes - and naturally, the officially licensed Homecoming-branded City of Heroes servers are planning a fitting celebration. Didn't you just love reading the words "officially licensed" just now? Same, my friends. Same. Beginning on April 30th, the game worlds will begin spawning...