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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.
Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is slowly working its charms on me
Perhaps this is just time away from the game or the full mental and literal reset talking, but I have to say that right...
The Daily Grind: How much do you think the whales of your top MMO spend in a year?
A few weeks back, following Korea's Fair Trade Commission ordering Nexon to pay nearly $9M in fines over its deceptive gamble-upgrade mechanics, players went...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Wakfu and Waven release 2024 roadmaps, including a new expansion for Wakfu
Ankama has dropped dueling roadmaps for its turn-based MMORPG Wakfu and card-based MMO Waven this week.
Let's start with Waven, which actually just launched what...
The MOP Up: Wakfu’s server headache
Wakfu said that its Ogrest server stopped working properly for a day, causing all sorts of data management headaches and a two-hour rollback.
"At 0:39...
The MOP Up: Warhammer Online’s Return of Reckoning ‘chickens out’
Return of Reckoning's rogue server changed how combat buffs worked and added a new level 40 quest that pays out in, er, a "Chicken...
Mabinogi adds new arcana classes and updates its arcana system in the Arcana Dark Arts patch
Players of Mabinogi who are pushing their characters to new heights have a few things to be excited about, as the anime MMO's Arcana:...
Kritika Online is coming back for the fourth time, this time under the stewardship of Valofe
Kritika Online seems to keep coming back like a bad penny. The anime action combat MMO:
First landed on western shores in 2017 until...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Indie Afrofantasy MMO Wagadu Chronicles has opened its early access doors today
"Today is a big day. The Wagadu Chronicles is finally accessible to the world." So begins Twin Drums' announcement that its Afrofantasy MMORPG has...
One Shots: Soft and squishy, yet fierce and determined
If MMORPGs, anime, and children's cartoons have taught me anything -- and really, it's where I get most of my learning these days --...
NosTale brings a new zone, new story, and stronger fairies in upcoming Secrets of the Undercity update
Gameforge has decided that the anime MMO NosTale should get some time in the update spotlight, as a treat. The publisher has announced Act...
Mabinogi’s big Beyond quality-of-life update is live as Nexon promises more for December 14
This week brought yet another bout of quality-of-life improvements to the anime MMO Mabinogi in the form of the Beyond update, which brings some...
