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Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
New World is rolling out new layered instancing tech Amazon is calling ‘shards’
You might think this is just another post about murdering bunnies in New World, but you're only partly correct. New World is in fact...
The Daily Grind: What part of MMO design seems much easier to MMO players than it really is?
A while back, I saw someone make an offhand comment about how to save New World. According to this commenter (no names, not dunking),...
Tarisland counts 3M pre-registrations, opens lore site prior to global launch
We're just a couple weeks away from a major global MMO launch in the form of Tarisland, and it's all hands on deck in...
Twitch eliminates its safety advisory council after just four years of operation
How long does it take for Amazon and Twitch to believe that people will forget about improving safety and security on the streaming platform?...
World of Warships is giving away ships and account time to new players to commemorate D-Day- here’s the code
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the decisive D-Day invasion, World of Warships has dropped a code granting loot bundles specifically aimed at...
MMO Business Roundup: Activision owned cheatmaker EngineOwning
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news! Business business business and all that.
EngineOwning got owned - File this one...
Fallout 76 counts 20 million players as franchise interest continues to spike
It turns out that a whole lot of people are willing to crawl out through the fallout... the Fallout 76, that is. The impact...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Murder corrupted bunnies in exchange for skins in New World’s Rabbit’s Revenge
New World's great big super secret announceroo is next week, so ideally, you'll have forgotten all about the bunny event by the time it...
New World’s latest community events feature XP boosts, hardware giveaways, and free canopic jars
New World is continuing to throw as many smoke bombs as it can in order to pad the time between now and when it...
Throne & Liberty producer resigns as mobile version rumors surface
If you were already harboring doubts about the prospects of Throne & Liberty's western launch, then prepare to possibly hoist another mental red flag:...
Vague Patch Notes: Why I am no longer anticipating Blue Protocol
Last year, I was pretty jazzed about Blue Protocol. I've actually been pretty jazzed about it for a while, but last year it looked...
The Daily Grind: Is there a popular MMORPG you’ve still never played?
I've been playing MMORPGs so long that it's a rare title that I've never tried at all. There are tons of MMOs I've at...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 470: Pandaria re-re-remix!
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Pandaria Remix, Diablo IV Loot Reborn, Wayfinder Echoes, Nightingale, Wagadu Chronicles' sunset, and MMO studio Q1 financials from around the industry, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO intro music.
Amazon Games opens new studio in Romania to support ‘ambitious long-term roadmap’
As large parts of the games industry contract, Amazon Games is buying the dip and expanding with a new game dev studio in Bucharest,...
New World hosts a community-themed event to bide time until June’s big reveal
If you've gotten past your grudge against New World for bleeping its secret plan reveal, the fantasy MMO actually is running a neat little...
Lost Ark outlines plan for merging South American region into US East
Amazon has been talking up a big global merge for Lost Ark for the last few weeks, and now, we're finally getting some hard...
Fallout 76 vs Fallout 4: Which is better to play in 2024?
Growing up as a computer gaming geek, I've been quite the Fallout nerd since 1997 (and, arguably, since Wasteland in 1988). Other than Tactics,...
World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix speed-leveling event is live this afternoon
As we alluded to in this morning's Daily Grind, today is the day for World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria remix hullabaloo, so if...
