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Old School RuneScape roadmap details new areas, revamped classic quests, and Sailing’s future
This past weekend saw Jagex host its 2024 Winter Summit event for Old School RuneScape, which dropped a ton of reveals for fans of...
Betawatch: Fractured Online is rolling with its latest round of rollbacks
It's just hard out here for Fractured Online, sadly. We all know about the struggles that the game had when it was being published...
Pax Dei promises new items, prettier skies, and shinier player tombstones in next alpha build
When your character dies in an MMORPG and leaves nothing but a tombstone on the ground and sour feelings in your mind, it's usually...
Ashes of Creation officially makes good on its plan to stop selling Alpha Two backer packs
August of last year saw Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios announce its plans that it would stop selling pre-order packs of the gankbox MMORPG...
Star Citizen’s CIG was hit with a measly $190 fine for… not filing its 2022 financial report on time
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class," so sayeth the meme, and that...
Betawatch: SMITE 2 encourages you to smite what has already been smitten
So, who had SMITE 2 on their watchlists for this year? Probably not many people, but Hi-Rez Studios has announced that the game is...
Hi-Rez just officially announced SMITE 2, soft-launching into beta this year – but SMITE will stay online
Have you ever wanted to play SMITE but with better graphics, improved matchmaking, and more modes and special events? Well, soon you can! Except...
Massively Overthinking: The 2023 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
This might be one of the most important Massively Overthinkings we do all year, and it's a pretty salty one. We always come away...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Trimurti Online, Karos Classic, Quest Master’s Realm
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! First off, we'll point out that this...
Anvil Empires discusses seasons, weather, points of interest, and its next two months of pre-alpha
Siege Camp is continuing to keep interested players informed of where things are going with its persistent war MMO Anvil Empires, as its eighth...
Sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei aims for an early access launch this spring
This year is already shaping up to be thrilling for fans of MMORPGs as we look hopefully at many notable releases coming our way...
Betawatch: The Quinfall wants you to pay money for its beta
The Quinfall - so named to apparently distinguish itself from the other, lesser quinfalls - made news during a slow beta cycle by deciding...
Lost Skies developer Bossa Studios sheds 19 employees owing to a ‘perfect storm of events’
We're sad to report that layoffs in gaming and tech appear to be continuing even among the smaller studios out there. The most recent...
VR MMO Zenith’s next patch is a literal do-or-die moment: ‘We’ve been operating at a loss’
Kickstarted virtual reality MMO Zenith has a major update on the horizon. How big is it? It's so big that it's getting a "2.0"...
Star Citizen studio CIG claims increases in revenue, salaries, headcount, and costs in 2022 financial year report
The 2022 fiscal year for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 developer Cloud Imperium Games can best be described as "all the numbers were bigger":...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
Digital Extremes boss shares an hour of Soulframe pre-alpha gameplay in a livestream
We can likely count on one hand the number of times a game development studio's CEO has decided to livestream gameplay footage, but that...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained promises good news in 2024
Look, Camelot Unchained, I see you promising good things for 2024. I am glad that January will mark a new push of the game...
BitCraft talks about terraforming, player buildings, and the goals of its next closed alpha
The close of December is bringing more technical and granular gifts from the developers of sandbox MMO BitCraft, with a new blog that's all...
Pax Dei promises ‘several milestones’ and shares new screenshots in an end-of-year message to fans
Pax Dei has had a pretty productive year by all accounts, with a first-ever alpha test that drew in over 12,000 players and plenty...
