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The MOP Up: Anvil hitches up its combat pants as it looks at 2022
Coop shooter Anvil pushed out its first update since the game's December early access launch. The patch brings in balance adjustments, a new relic,...
GDC’s State of the Game Industry: NFTs, the metaverse, and more than half of game devs want to unionize
Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...
Neverwinter’s 22nd module, Dragonbone Vale, is live today on PC
Neverwinter fans are riding high off the recent confirmation that their MMORPG is the biggest in Cryptic and Perfect World's stable, and now they're...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year's MMORPG predictions didn't exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren't really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did....
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 pulls back the curtain on narrative design
Guild Wars 2 Associate Narrative Director Bobby Stein has an interesting essay up about "shepherding stories" for the MMO with a focus on diverse...
The Game Archaeologist: The Wonderful World of Eamon
As we've long since established, 1980's MUD1 was the official kick-off of the MMORPG genre, bringing online players together to adventure through persistent worlds...
Apple was denied its request to postpone third-party payment options
Welcome to the continued aftermath of the Epic/Apple lawsuit. When we last left off, Apple was trying to postpone its acceptance of third-party payment...
Choose My Adventure: LOTRO’s fall festival rekindled my love for all things Tolkien
All right, that was a nice detour. It was going to be a long run in Lord of the Rings Online, so it was...
Epic asks the court to deny Apple the right to postpone its anti-steering measures
So let's recap a little bit. The one major victory that Epic won in its lawsuit against Apple was about steering people to only...
Mythic Quest, the TV series about an MMO studio, is greenlit for another two seasons
One of the few bright spots of 2020 was the announcement of Apple TV+ show Mythic Quest, the Rob McElhenney-run comedy about a game...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Unite mobile is a good port but better update
So Pokemon Unite is now mobile and cross-platform. Who'd have thought a traditionally Nintendo-only IP would do this? The update and dev team letter we mentioned is...
Fortnite might not be back on Apple’s app store for five years – or longer
You know how kids' soccer teams line up after a match to give each other high-fives and "good games" in a show of sportsmanship?...
Sprite Fantasia is a mobile remake of the MMORPG Grand Fantasia now available for pre-registration
Grand Fantasia isn't a game that crosses our news room very often, but it very much is still a thing. We've covered it as...
The Epic v. Apple ruling permanently stops Apple from blockading third-party purchasing
Happy Friday, and happy one more entry in the longrunning Epic-Apple feud, as today, the judge in the Epic v. Apple lawsuit, Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers,...
Project X is a mobile ‘social sandbox MMO’ full of resource gathering and house building in closed beta
This one will need a little bit of context because the name Project X carries a tiny bit of history here. Back in 2018...
NCsoft says Lineage W will launch this year for PC, mobile, PS5, and the Switch
Last week, we covered NCsoft's initial reveal of Lineage W, yet another entry in the long-running Lineage franchise. Lineage W, however, was initially pitched...
Pokemon Unite gets mobile release date, Sword and Shield to remain competitive center
Today's Pokemon Presents wasn't the most exciting for fans of multiplayer online gaming, but there were a few kernels of information for us nonetheless....
Unsealed court documents outline Google’s consideration to buy ‘some or all’ of Epic
Most of the headlines regarding the Epic vs. Apple vs. Google antitrust lawsuits have been focused on the spat between Epic and Apple owing...
Massively on the Go: Niantic ditching Pokemon Go’s COVID benefits was a dangerous mistake
Recently I was forced into isolation since an untrustworthy family member hid COVID symptoms from the household and our vaccinated guests who were going...
Competitive MMO Lands of Kehliel posts slow but sure progress on its first match
Do you remember Lands of Kehliel? It first crossed our desk in November of last year, promising a competition-focused open world MMORPG experience where...
