battle royale
Pearl Abyss preps standalone Shadow Arena battle royale plucked from Black Desert
Remember Shadow Arena, Black Desert's short-lived PvP battle royale mode? It was announced just before 2019, released a few weeks later, and immediately devolved...
Fortnite throws an informational bone to Save the World fans while not writing patch notes for Battle Royale
Fortnite Save the World (aka Red-Headed Stepchild Mode) has always seemed as if it's behind the curve in terms of attention from Epic, while...
The Daily Grind: What are the odds that Daybreak can turn itself around?
I've had... severe concerns about Daybreak Games over the last several years, and I'm sure that I am not alone in this. The multiple...
Daybreak talks PlanetSide Arena goals and plans for PlanetSide 3
With Daybreak currently in the throes of fresh layoffs and a "company realignment" and PlanetSide Arena failing to really set the world on fire...
Apex Legends will open up the training grounds to let players get used to characters and weapons
Seeing as how Fortnite is all slurped up into a black hole, perhaps it's time to consider other battle royale news stories like this...
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse just rolled out a much smaller PvP map for testing
Ashes of Creation's battle royale-cum-testing ground Apocalypse kicked out an update yesterday that, among other things, offers a new place for players to slay...
Fiesta Online is getting a… battle royale mode? And it’s live right now
Remember in 2018 when adding a battle royale to your MMORPG was all the rage? (Heck, remember when adding a battle royale to your...
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
Apex Legends kicks off its Fight or Fright event on October 15
Who says that you can't have a properly spooky event in a battle royale game? Apex Legends is working hard at making sure you have...
Massively Uplifting: From weddings to memorials, gamers celebrate life in AQ3D, GW2, BDO, LOTRO, WoW, and more
It's an alphabet soup of good (MMO) vibes this month! While many may have returned to the school of hard knocks this fall, plenty...
Fight or Kite: Impressions of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, a solid fantasy battle royale nobody is playing
A mere fortnight ago, the team behind Ashes of Creation took its MMO combat testing ground known as Apocalypse and opened the doors on...
PlanetSide Arena’s next update will dynamically tweak safe zones and pain fields for low population matches
When your battle royale game is designed for 1,000+ player fights but nowhere near enough players show up, you've got to make some adjustments....
Mortal Online revamps the whole newbie experience in next week’s Haven update
It's been a minute since we talked about Mortal Online, which earlier this year began teasing Mortal Online 2 and last year tried its...
The Daily Grind: What would get you to try out a battle royale title?
Battle royale games are both the newest flash-in-the-pan and one of the oldest genres out there; it's not exactly a new idea to put...
Fortnite extends battle royale Season X for a week and adds a speaker-powered hammer to Save the World
Boy, that headline only makes sense in Fortnite, doesn't it? The multiplayer shooter's latest version update has announced another week for Season X and...
Snag an Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Swordbrand Cloak from Intrepid and MOP
In celebration of the launch of Ashes of Creation's Apocalypse battle royale mode into early access, Intrepid Studios has granted Massively OP a stack...
Ashes of Creation explains how Apocalypse battle royale has brought about improvements to the MMO
This past Friday saw a developer livestream from the Ashes of Creation team with the aim of providing a bit more context on just...
Not So Massively: Lessons MMORPGs could learn from Fortnite
Since taking up the mantle of the Not So Massively column here on MOP, I've felt the need to keep better abreast of major...
Interview: ArcheAge Unchained’s Merv Lee Kwai on housing, RMT, and the future of the game
The announcement of ArcheAge Unchained and its buy-to-play, no-pay-to-win ruleset has been one of the big surprises of the season for the five-year-old MMORPG...
Fortnite announces the addition of bots during its next season and promises to tweak matchmaking
Something tells me that having fair and balanced matches in Fortnite isn't really something that's needed, but then I might still be a wee...
