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Tower of Fantasy teams up with Evangelion for its newest simulacrum
Chances that at least a few of our readers are fans of the popular Evangelion anime franchise. If so, it might surprise you to...
The MOP Up: Myth of Empires pumps out even more servers
The freshly released Myth of Empires rolled out yet another batch of New Era servers this past weekend with realms in Oceania, Asia, Europe,...
Blue Protocol’s Chapter 5 update brings more main story questing, level cap raise, and new features
We're once again stuck staring wistfully at the Japanese version of Blue Protocol for update details since Bandai Namco and Amazon continue to be...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Season of Wonder is evasive, but March scores critical hits
Pokemon Go's Sinnoh Tours and Season of Timeless Travels are both behind us, and we're left with... World of Wonders? Based on the latest announcements...
Mabinogi opens a new microsite that details the MMO’s upgrade to Unreal Engine 5
Unreal Engine 5 seems to be the bees knees among game devs, especially those who are looking to upgrade their existing games to the...
ASTRA Knights of Veda finally opens pre-registration March 5 – here’s the new trailer
We've been keeping half an eyeball on ASTRA Knights of Veda since last year, when publisher HYBE and studio FLINT introduced their 2-D "MORPG"...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of Dreams, launching today
Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard's Tower in...
The MOP Up: Aion, Lineage 2, and Blade and Soul get ready for a new launcher
Blade and Soul, Lineage II, and Aion are all preparing to migrate everyone from the old launcher to the new PLAYNC platform. NCsoft posted...
Bandai Namco reports YoY sales drop, admitting Blue Protocol JP ‘significantly fell short’
Bandai Namco has disclosed its fiscal-year third quarter financial reports, and it looks like things are not going well for the developer and publisher,...
Four Winds: Phantasy Star Online 2 offers some of the best social features in MMORPGs
I don't know about everyone else, but a huge part of MMOs for me is the fashion. My characters need to absolutely slay the runway...
Tower of Fantasy showcases its frosty spear-swinging new character arriving February 20
She'll swing a spear around, cast several explosive icy spells, and smile right into your eyes as she does it. She's Yanuo, the latest...
Closers celebrates its sixth anniversary by handing out character level jumps and login rewards
Against all presumed odds, Closers has been online for six years, and that merits a whole lot of celebration from the anime MMO, as...
Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two
Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...
Tencent buys up majority stake of Swords of Legends developer and gains access to the IP
Tencent has walked over to another games studio and smacked it with its wallet, only this time it's a bit of a surprise purchase...
Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is a perfectly lovely single-player RPG
Before I begin, I want to point out that I promise I didn't write that headline just to get anger clicks. I don't want...
The Game Archaeologist: Dragon Ball Online, the MMO that never made it to the west
It was back in 1986 that Toei Animation, a Japanese company, brought a new series called Dragon Ball into the world. The initial run...
Valofe’s Kritika Zero heralds launch on its own platform with ‘opening ceremony’ events
This week has officially seen the fourth attempt at making Kritika Online stick the landing, as Valofe's version of the anime action MMO has...
Tower of Fantasy dates ‘1.5th anniversary’ events and discusses plans to open a classic server
It hasn't even been two years yet, but that isn't going to stop Tower of Fantasy from whipping out the party favors. The shared-world...
Perfect Ten: The 10 most utterly bizarre Final Fantasy XIV NPC names
A lot of times when I write these columns, I have either a point to make or a higher concept that I am touching...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 454: MMO roadmap roundup
Justin and Bree discuss the 2024 roadmaps for Lord of the Rings Online, Lost Ark, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Elder Scrolls Online, New World, EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, and City of Heroes.