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Lost Ark preps a rubber duck-bopping event for its first birthday tomorrow
Lost Ark is gearing up for its first birthday tomorrow with a hefty update, the patch notes for which have just gone live. As...
New World discusses the mechanics and timing of leaderboards
Who doesn't like a leaderboard? It's like a high score table for an arcade game, except it's online and you can't claim that the...
Global Chat: The seductive appeal of New World
Over a year since its launch, New World remains as rocky and controversial as ever. And while it has its critics, Amazon's MMO also...
Zenith tees up player housing test, picks up former New World creative director and WoW designer
Ramen VR CEO Andy Tsen dropped a letter to the Zenith community late last night with both industry and game news. For starters, the...
Old School RuneScape player cashes in eight years of grind rewards to max out a despised skill
Have you ever sat in awe of an MMORPG player's enviable levels of pettiness and commitment? Then you might be among those Old School...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 407: Roadmaps, roadmaps, roadmaps
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Necrom, DDO's mini-expansion, Diablo Immortal, Villagers & Heroes housing, Star Trek Online's 13th anniversary, and Gloria Victis' impending launch, with adventures in LOTRO and ESO, plus a mailbag topic on optional content.
Lost Ark previews February 8 update, bumps the Artist up to March (instead of April)
Amazon has just updated Lost Ark's roadmap, and it leads off with some extremely good news: The Artist class, which wasn't expected to launch...
New World’s devs deep dive the creation of the game’s lore
Lore! Huh! Good God, y'all, what is it good for? Exploring the reasons behind New World's quests and setting (say it again)! Yes, it's...
Vitae Aeternum: Obsessing over New World’s population numbers is a waste of time
New World is a bit unique in that it is the only major Western MMORPG that is playable only through Steam. The others are...
‘WELP’: New World leaderboard test event ends with a bellyflop thanks to war mercenary mechanics
Testing is meant to break things and not go to plan, but the devs of New World had a pretty big stumble as the...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most-played MMOs in 2023?
Last week in Massively Overthinking, we discussed our three most-played MMOs of 2022 - and whether we'd guessed right at the top of that...
Lost Ark drops new live-action trailer ahead of its first anniversary
We're still a few weeks away from Lost Ark's first birthday here in the west, but Amazon and Smilegate are clearly already cranking up...
The Stream Team: Enjoying a spot of New World just for the fun of it
MOP's Chris is once again firing up a game for the simple reason of just enjoying it! This time around, he'll be making a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 406: Ulduar and Umbar
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard vs. NetEase and the demise of WoW China, Wrath Classic, FFXIV 6.3, and LOTRO's 2023 roadmap, with adventures in LOTRO and ESO, plus a mailbag topic on the future of Blizzard.
New World offers up a new video explaining how deceptively hard an MMO actually is to make
Video games are hard. You know that, but it isn't ever really clear how hard from the other side of the screen, and that's...
New World prepares for yet another round of server merges today as population declines
Happy merge day, New World fans! OK, so maybe the thrill has worn off a bit, given how many merge days New World has...
Riot Games lays off 46 workers, adding to this month’s tech toll
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...
Massively Overthinking: What were your three most-played MMOs in 2022?
Last year, we did a piece on what we expected our top three MMOs of 2022 to be. We'll do that again next week,...
New World promises ‘more programmatic content’ as leaderboards hit the PTS
As the broader Amazon layoff of 18,000 people across the company's global workforce begins to reverberate across the tech industry, Amazon Games Studio's MMOs...
Halo Infinite and Elder Scrolls Online teams were hit by Microsoft’s 10,000-person layoff
Yesterday's Microsoft layoffs were just as bad as anticipated - 10,000 jobs slashed in one day - and it gets worse for gamers, as...
