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Fractured is on track for a March return after hasty backtrack from early access and Gamigo mess

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At the tail end of 2022, following Gamigo's layoff-and-game-yeeting round, Kickstarted Fractured was counted among the victims. Fractured is the Kickstarted sandbox MMO from...

Meta: MassivelyOP is now on Mastodon

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Hallo, MOP readers! By popular request, we've been working on our Mastodon implementation as an alternative to existing social media networks, and thanks to...
well then

Gamer lawsuit over Activision-Blizzard buyout proceeds as Microsoft puts billions into OpenAI

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Last month we reported on a lawsuit filed by self-described gamers who were trying to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard; the filing used several...

The MOP Up: Meet Starfall, a new indie Minecraft MMO

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So many amazing projects have been birthed from Minecraft over the past decade-plus, including fully formed games. One of the newer of these is...
But what awaits...

Vague Patch Notes: Floaty, samey, and janky – a treasury of MMO terms for bad combat

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Any time you bring up The Secret World or Secret World Legends's bland, floaty combat, at least one person is going to chime in...

The Daily Grind: What crap is in your MMO inventory right now that you can’t bring yourself to delete?

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I'm not big on hoarding useless things, but I fully admit that in Lord of the Rings Online, I can't bring myself to get...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet celebrates Valentine’s Day, releases frog

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We've got a slew of new, upcoming Tera Raid events approaching in multiplayer Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, though from the header, you can probably...
Gosh, what a toolbox.

Riot Games lays off 46 workers, adding to this month’s tech toll

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Riot Games is the latest games industry megacorp to issue layoffs this week, though they're smaller in number than the thousands of workers shed...

Perfect Ten: Why it’s better than ever to be an MMO fan in 2023

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Welcome to 2023! You probably didn't need that heads-up, but you're getting it even still. I'm quite excited about the year to come in...

Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio

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Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...

Microsoft buyout faces pushback from the UK as Google and Nvidia express concerns about the deal to the FTC

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The billion-dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard from Microsoft was likely never going to be a smooth transaction, but we suspect all parties involved weren't expecting...

Bullet-hell battle royale game Dominance launches into Steam early access open beta

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Does the world need another battle royale? How about a self-proclaimed "first bullet-hell battle royale"? We're about to find out, as Cyprus-based studio Stage23...

Lawful Neutral: Recapping 2022’s MMO and gaming law dramas

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Fam, it's been a year. I know we've been saying that pretty much every year since 2016, but we'll stop saying it when it...
Strike a pose and all that.

Wayfinder’s second PC test and first PlayStation test kick off next week

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Earlier this week, we reported that the newly introduced Wayfinder was already in the middle of its first wave of testing with another one...
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Workers at Blizzard-owned Proletariat say management refused its union and is ‘forcing’ them to go through NLRB voting

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At the tail end of December, we reported that Blizzard-owned studio Proletariat was forming a union known as the Proletariat Workers Alliance. The announcement...

MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2022: LOTRO’s new mascot

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Today we're concluding our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year! Coming in at #1 on our list is… LOTRO'S PET ROCK With the...

MassivelyOP’s complete 2022 awards debrief and annual recap

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As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, today we're going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from...
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Vague Patch Notes: Embracing limited-time content modes in MMOs

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Today's column was inspired by a discussion in work chat about limited-time game modes - specifically, the idea of something like that in World...

Not So Massively: Why I’m not playing Lost Ark

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Back at launch, I played Lost Ark quite heavily for some time, eventually racking up over 100 hours in the game and generally enjoying...

Fight or Kite: The many ways today’s MMOs are failing PvPers

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Last week, the MassivelyOP writing crew released its award for the best PvP MMO of the year - yet I couldn’t bring myself to...

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