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Tarisland makes major PvE and PvP changes to its beta build
Back from the winter break, Tarisland's dev team is cranking out a slew of changes to the beta build. In a recent Discord discussion,...
Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Festival: Pictomancer, lady Hrothgar, and release ambiguity
If you had been paying attention and looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV's third and final fan festival ahead of Dawntrail, you probably had...
Betawatch: The Quinfall wants you to pay money for its beta
The Quinfall - so named to apparently distinguish itself from the other, lesser quinfalls - made news during a slow beta cycle by deciding...
‘Open betas will be paid,’ The Quinfall declares amid fraud allegations
In the wake of a persistent hum of skepticism about The Quinfall, Turkish MMO studio Vawraek has posted more confusing information about its upcoming...
Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap
With another year debuting this week, Blizzard was more on the ball than some MMO studios by already publishing its roadmap for 2024. Two...
NCsoft has officially granted a City of Heroes server license to the Homecoming crew
City of Heroes fans are in for a treat today - or a shocking surprise they were convinced was never coming, depending on their...
Players cast doubts about The Quinfall’s claims as studio reaffirms January 30 closed beta date
Following the absolute oil fire that was The Day Before, gamers are becoming more and more skeptical of large promises being made by The...
Progress Bar: Another go-round with cozy ‘MMO’ Palia, this time on the Switch
I'm not much of a console player in general. The controller has always felt limiting to me, especially when compared with the precision of...
Exercise-inspiring WalkScape heads to closed beta in January
If your big resolution for 2024 is to get moving and get healthy, then there's one game that could be your best friend on...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained promises good news in 2024
Look, Camelot Unchained, I see you promising good things for 2024. I am glad that January will mark a new push of the game...
Path of Exile 2 talks movement, microtransactions, builds, and more in new interview
The Path of Exile 2 playerbase got themselves a little treat earlier this week when game director Johnathan Rogers sat down for an interview...
Arena shooter The Finals closes out 2023 with 10 million players
Even with controversy surrounding its use of AI voice acting, arena shooter The Finals is ending 2023 on a high note. Embark Studios announced...
Camelot Unchained heralds the start of its next beta and hints at ‘good news’ in 2024
A short holiday address from Camelot Unchained pretty much continues the trend of vaguely promising forward momentum on the PvP MMORPG, which hints at...
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...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation and Age of Water target next year for more testing
Turns out that this week you were obligated to have some testing plans ready for 2024 if your game title is structured as X...
World of Warcraft 2024 roadmaps herald summer War Within beta and Cataclysm Classic
We're just about at the end of 2023, and that means World of Warcraft's various server sets are looking forward to what will be...
A fresh first impressions: Checking out Palia for the first time on Switch
Outside of MMORPGs, life sims are probably the most-played genre in my household. I originally bought Stardew Valley for my wife a few years...
EVE Online deepens partnership with community content sharing platform Just About
It's been proven multiple times that EVE Online studio CCP Games chases shiny trends more readily than an easily distracted puppy, so perhaps the...
Funcom’s Dune Awakening is readying another closed beta test for early 2024
Funcom is continuing to inch along with playtests for the Dune Awakening survival MMO - in fact, the one it opened sign-ups for a...
