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Project Ghost’s Greg Street defends building an MMO: ‘When they work, it’s magic’
It's slightly sad that in this day and age, a game studio feels that it needs to defend why it's pouring efforts into crafting...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street shares frustrations with the pace and priorities of ‘big American game studios’
It's no secret that Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has some Opinions™ about the gaming industry, especially since his years of experience has led him to...
Massively on the Go: The good, the bad, and the ugly of Pokemon GO’s transition to Scopely
As I mentioned in the June event round-up, Pokemon GO's been sold off to Scopely, and it's a done deal now. In the lead up,...
Massively Overthinking: Is Dune Awakening an MMO, MMORPG, survivalbox, or something else?
In this week's Massively Overthinking, we have a very simple question on deck in honor of Dune Awakening's headstart: What the heck is it?...
Kickstarted superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off its animation and FX overhaul
Ship of Heroes is still zooming along toward a release this season, and ahead of what we assume will be a hard date announcement...
RuneScape explains loot table rebalancing while Old School RuneScape polls Sailing content
With an MMO that's been operating for a quarter-century and has plans for at least that long to go, you might well expect that...
Amazon is experimenting with adding ‘rough edges’ to the New World PvP experience
As part of its preview of New World's upcoming hardcore seasonal world, Amazon has sent along a new Q&A-style dev blog explaining the studio's...
Massively Overthinking: Who really buys MMORPG lockboxes – and why?
For this week's Massively Overthinking, we're going full Inception because we're talking about last week's Massively Overthinking and some of the spillover our team...
BitCraft has opened up its beta for free for the next three weeks ahead of launch
If you're already feeling that spring/summer overwhelm with all the content drops and new MMOs coming in the next month, this article will... not...
New World previews its upcoming hardcore seasonal world with its accessible permadeath-ish mechanics
While New World's eighth season - Season of the Divide - has already been live for a couple of weeks, but as we pointed...
Stars Reach adds sliding mechanics, XP refunds, and a plant harvesting overhaul
Playable Worlds' Stars Reach is continuing its march through pre-alpha, and its latest patch has quite a bit in it for testers, starting with...
Massively Overthinking: The spectrum of lockboxes in the MMO genre
A while back, I came across a Lord of the Rings Online discussion that leaped out at me because of its unusual turn. The...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Solstice Isle promises a tropical paradise and a ‘wild carnival’
It's hard to believe we're already a week and change away from the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online's Seasons of the Worm Cult...
Fractured Online’s new owners are tinkering with everything from crafting to housing in their revamp
As Fractured Online prepares to go offline for the rest of the year and then some under its new ownership with big plans for...
BitCraft Online readies a game preview test for next week prior to June’s early access
Pay attention, you squares: Your last chance to check out BitCraft Online before it launches is coming up next week. Clockwork Laboratories announced that...
Pantheon explains its impending itemization overhaul for resists, stats, and progression
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen has been talking up an itemization revamp for a while now, and as of this afternoon, developer Visionary Realms...
Elder Scrolls Online says Seasons of the Worm Cult is a ‘true sequel’ for the basegame narrative
Elder Scrolls Online is about to embark on its next big thing in just a couple more weeks: Seasons of the Worm Cult, or...
Massively Overthinking: What will the MMORPG genre look like in 2030?
If you had asked me in 2020 what the MMO genre would look like in 2025, I'm not sure how I would've answered. It...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2025: Black Desert Mobile’s Chinese endeavor is over
Last weekend, we ran the numbers on Black Desert and EVE Online, thanks to some gap-filling on Q4 2024 made possible by Pearl Abyss's...
Elder Scrolls Online prepares players for June’s Seasons of the Worm Cult content drop
Don't call it an "expansion" or a "chapter," but Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming June Seasons of the Worm Cult Part 1 hopes to make...
