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Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta
Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...
Betawatch: SWTOR’s Mac test, Stars Reach’s preview, Steel Hunter’s beta weekend
Some weeks, everyone is going whole-hog on beta developments. And some weeks you have two back-to-back holidays coming up so everyone decides "eh, let's...
Dune Awakening shares closed beta stats and answers questions about PvP death and Landsraad benefits
The final Dune: Awakening newsletter for this year is online, and as one might expect, it's mostly a retrospective of the year that was...
Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends
There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
Palia introduces snowball fights, in-game board games, and curtains in the Holiday Homestead update
Cozy multiplayer life sim Palia is arguably getting more cozy and more multiplayer with its Holiday Homestead patch, which adds a couple of wintertime...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Sandbox MMORPG The Quinfall announces early access release date of January 25
Over the past several months we've been covering The Quinfall, Vawraek Technology's open world sandbox MMORPG, which made its arrival to gamers' notice in...
The Soapbox: The Dauntless Awakening update is just as bad as advertised for veteran players
I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to write that headline.
I've been a Dauntless fan and player for many years now, getting...
Betawatch: Pantheon enters early access at long last
If you were worried that Pantheon would ever reach any form of release, before or after the untimely passing of Brad McQuaid, we're happy...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...
Not So Massively: Deep-diving ZeroSpace’s factions and final thoughts on the beta
We've reached the third and final piece of Not So Massivey's extensive impressions from the recent open beta of multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace. In my...
Warcraft Rumble kicks off its PC beta along with its Winter Veil festivities
If you've found yourself wishing to have Warcraft Rumble playable on your PC before now (or perhaps you've wished for something Warcraft-adjacent that's a...
Serbian post-apoc MMOFPS Pioner is set to launch in 2025
OK, let me stop you right there. You were about to come yell at me in the comments that I spelled "Pioneer" wrong. But...
China’s mobile Blue Protocol ARPG rebrands as Star Resonance with a new test for December
We're all being reminded that Blue Protocol is technically not dead all over again. Readers will remember that a mobile version of the anime...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Update 7.6 arrives December 10 with name releasing, improved visuals
Star Wars: The Old Republic's last big patch of 2024 now has a release date: Tuesday, December 10th.
Broadsword confirmed that Update 7.6 will be...
Betawatch: Path of Exile 2’s early access has begun
All right, let's not front, the only thing we're really worrying about in the MMO-ish (it's flagged MMO on Steam) beta space right now...
Multiplayer gacha game Neverness to Everness shares gameplay details from its recent Chinese CBT
Let's assume the mobile and PC gacha RPG Neverness to Everness caught your attention when it was announced and detailed earlier this year and...
Not So Massively: ZeroSpace’s MMO-inspired Galactic War and other PvE modes
Welcome to part two of Not So Massively's in-depth impressions of the recent open beta of multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace. In my first piece, I...
