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Battle Bards: The Final Refrain
It’s been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven’t fully abandoned you — at least not without a goodbye! In the grand...
Massively Overthinking: Do you multibox in MMORPGs?
Last week on Twitter, I saw someone refer disparagingly to EVE Online as "the multiboxing game." I want to talk about the concept of...
Stars Reach Kickstarter ends with over $750K raised – plus fresh investment and a new vampire species
Stars Reach, Raph Koster's grand sci-fi MMORPG sandbox adventure, has officially funded on Kickstarter this afternoon, soaring past $739,000 in crowdfunding with over 5,200...
Stars Reach hits $650K in crowdfunding and unlocks a construction overhaul for player builders
As I type this, there's just about a day left to go on the Stars Reach Kickstarter, which obviously will fund as it's pulled...
Massively Overthinking: Are you tired of survival gameplay in MMORPGs?
When we were deep-diving Aloft earlier this year, MOP commenter Jon Wax said something that caught my attention. He thought the game looked neat,...
Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia recaps worldbuilding and MMO-inspired social systems
Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia is back with another development blog this week, this time recapping the last month of effort over at indie studio...
Massively on the Go: Niantic games under Scopely may not be so bad, actually
In case you missed the news, Pokemon GO's Niantic has finally confirmed that it is indeed offloading its games to Scopely. Oddly enough, it...
Diablo Immortal’s 2025 roadmap promises Writhing Wilds next week and a new class this summer
NetEase might be pulling back in other corners of the global market, but it's apparently full-speed ahead on its Blizzard Diablo Immortal collaboration, as...
Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
World of Warcraft teases its housing decoration tools, including 3-axis rotation and dyes
When Blizzard last talked about World of Warcraft's housing, it was a vague overview of the studio's philosophies that left a lot of players...
The Daily Grind: Do you engage in world chat in MMOs?
World chat (or global chat) is laden with a reputation it can't shake. Awful, uncomfortable discussions? Trollish behavior? Dank memes and antique running jokes...
Multiplayer sandbox Aloft launches its first big early access update, Critters & Wonders
When we previewed cozy co-op survivalbox Aloft back in January, we were surprised at how good it was - but already cognizant of the...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs look like in 2025?
A couple of years ago - yeah, I save weird things in my "ideas bin" folder - MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a...
‘I think we’ve cooked’: MMO sandbox BitCraft prepares for a Steam early access beta
Way back in 2021, we started following an up-and-coming MMORPG sandbox sim called BitCraft that - despite its perhaps inauspicious name - was not...
Once Human unveils big plans for account-wide unlocks and long-term scenario servers
If you hear the name NetEase, you probably think Marvel Rivals these days, but the company has a huge number of other titles still...
Stars Reach teases adorable retro bug people for its newly unlocked species
As we noted yesterday, when Stars Reach crossed the $500,000 crowdfunding threshhold on Kickstarter, players effectively unlocked the pre-launch (rather than post-launch) addition of...
Path of Exile 2 previews March’s update and monster concept art
Path of Exile 2 is gearing up for a significant March update in a couple weeks, with Grinding Gear Games doling out previews of...
Massively Overthinking: The things we wish we didn’t know about the MMO industry
A few weeks ago, the MOP writers were sitting around in Discord avoiding work when the subject of a certain industry website's known pay-for-play...
Lost Ark teases the Wildsoul class, updates booster events, and limits bussing and spam
Amazon's latest dev blog for Lost Ark is a melange of info, starting with news that the studio plans to properly support the upcoming...
Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
