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Whatever happened to Osiris New Dawn, Cinderstone Online, and Magnificent 5?
Welcome back to a fresh edition of Whatever Happened To, the randomly occurring column in which we realize some MMOs have fallen off our...
Not So Massively roundup: Iron Harvest, Second Extinction, Valorant, Paladins, Wolf Team, The Cycle, and New Frontier
Welcome back to a quick roundup of recent news from some not-so-massively online multiplayer titles.
Wolf Team: Gamigo's MMOFPS introduced a new map last week...
Magnificent 5, the battle royale Wild West Online spinoff, is now out on Steam, kinda
Way back in the long long ago, Wild West Online joined the MMO scene, kinda flopped, relaunched, all but sank its studio, was rescued...
New Frontier leaves early access, Magnificent 5 enters early access, and a zombie-based spinoff is revealed
This one is a bit of a wild ride, friends, so bear with me here. One game has broken up into three pieces, each...
New Frontier updates former Wild West Online players on its relationship to Free Reign Entertainment
Ah, those delirious moments when every new set of answers about the state of a game's publisher just leads to a new set of...
New Frontier launches on Steam with the publisher that supposedly was not connected to the game
Oh boy. Oh, boy. So you all remember Wild West Online, right? Survival sandbox that launched in much the same way that having a...
Wild West Online rebrands as New Frontier, now with steampunk and alien monsters
You know what they say: When a horse is beaten to death, that's just a good opportunity to reanimate it as a steampunk monstrosity.
The...
Snail Games’ Outlaws of the Old West rustle up a Steam early access launch
Form a posse with your best friends and ride out of that fantasy game and into the old west, for today Snail Games has...
Red Dead Online’s testers grump over patch issues as Rockstar updates with Fool’s Gold event
During MOP's last podcast recording, Justin and I discussed Snail Games' upcoming Outlaws of the Old West survival sandbox MMO-lite, and naturally we pointed...
Battle Bards Episode 138: Wild wild westerns
Boy howdy, is it time for another highfalutin Battle Bards episode? Shucks, looks like! In this week’s show, the trio saddle up for a...
Heat might be the PC’s answer to Red Dead Online and the flopped Wild West Online, if the dev can actually follow through
If last year's Old West multiplayer titles like Red Dead Online and Wild West Online left you cold, then Heat might warm you up....
Wild West Online’s battle royale spinoff Magnificent 5 hits open beta
Back in October, Wild West Online admitted defeat and renewal: After launching seemingly early and inarguably poorly in May, the 612 Games vowed a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 194: It belongs in a museum!
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's progression server, Trion's travails, the Video Game Museum's big win, Hellgate London, ESO Murkmire, Wild West Online, and Just Survive, with mailbag entries on P2W in emulations and mainstream MMO condescension.
Wild West Online’s studio collapsed, but it’s now soft rebooting with separate battle royale and building modes
Remember back in July, when Wild West Online starting murmuring about a soft relaunch and rework of major game systems? The game had only...
Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
Red Dead Redemption 2’s gameplay video makes the west look like an activity-packed theme park
Considering that Wild West Online is a wild dud these days, players looking for multiplayer western action are turning their eyes to Red Dead...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 178: #womenarecosmetic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Wild West Online, Star Citizen, Defiance 2050, Rend, and Fractured, with a mailbag question on in-game conflict resolution and a special interview on Blaugust Reborn.
Wild West Online plans ‘soft relaunch’ to boost playerbase, says playable women are a ‘cosmetic feature’
The latest Wild West Online patch landed on July 5th, and it brings in some changes like a full Sheriffs vs. Outlaws faction setup...
Wild West Online delays its next patch, but will anyone be around to play it?
A planned June 15th patch for Wild West Online obviously didn't happen, and now we know why: The developers said that when they took...
Wild West Online pivots away from faction system PvP, plans free trial
Another week, another huge plan change for Wild West Online. Newly installed studio (or maybe the old studio with a new name) DJ2 Entertainment...
