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Neverwinter’s jungle dungeon will trap you forever
Are you ready for Neverwinter's Tomb of Annihilation module? You best bring your A-game and top-notch gear because this jungle is fully prepared to...
Wizard101 tests chat channels while Pirate101 has fun with a rooster sheriff
Here's something interesting we learned this week by perusing the Wizard101 newsletter: The game apparently has a stronger following than you'd think among YouTubers, bloggers,...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ragequitting
Ragequitting. Most of us have probably done it once or twice from groups or single-player games or even MMO sessions in our time. My...
The Daily Grind: How would you define an MMO gankbox?
A couple of weeks ago, our own Justin wrote a Daily Grind wherein he suggested that EVE Online was a gankbox, earning him some argument...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Terra Mango, Royal Blood, and The Tomorrow Children
Welcome back to another edition of MMOs You've Never Heard Of, where we pull together a few interesting little games we don't want to...
Here’s how Crowfall is overhauling its skill system
Crowfall's ramping up the dev blogs this week with a fresh one on the skills system. "Skills are one of the main methods of...
Here’s everything coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Horns of the Reach DLC
Back at E3, we got a sneak peek into The Elder Scrolls Online's post-Morrowind plans -- how could ZeniMax follow something like Morrowind up?...
Crowfall says its biggest parcels are crazy expensive because they’re meant for guilds
Last month, we included Crowfall among the games discussed in a Massively Overthinking roundtable that focused on MMO monetization running amok. Why? Because Crowfall...
Global Chat: Want to see a Magic trick?
So what does the blogging community think of the first IP-related new MMORPG to be announced in years in Magic: The Gathering? It's a little...
Camelot Unchained: Explosions, music, and death to getting one-shotted
Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs helms this week's studio update, with a peek into the team's progress on shadows, archery and combat animations, siege engines,...
Crowfall’s ads and disads system is the best part of character creation
Ah, character creation: the best part of so many MMORPGs. So how's it working for Crowfall? A new dev blog out this week from...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
Chronicles of Elyria has 12 tribes planned, could include cross-breeding
While progress on Chronicles of Elyria has slowed a little this summer due to illnesses and vacations, the team has a lot to report...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 123: Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif
Justin sits down with Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif to talk about the game’s successful Kickstarter, handling a wild community, and the next steps for this up-and-coming sandbox MMORPG.
Global Chat: Secret World Legends edition
Over the past week, many MMO bloggers returned to the conspiracy-laden regions of Secret World Legends to see if they could answer the million-dollar...
Cloud Imperium rejects wild claim that Star Citizen is ‘owned by a bank’
The Star Citizen subreddit is aflame this weekend after bloggers on multiple sites and social media platforms, seemingly spurred on by a certain self-proclaimed...
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
Trove’s Megalithic update lands on PS4 and Xbox One June 27
Way back in April, Trion teased a "mega" 2017 update for Trove intended to bring the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game...
Black Death is building out some nasty PvP hotspot content
What's indie survival sandbox The Black Death been up to since it began taking "drastic action" to reorient its early access state this spring?
Pillaging....
Here’s how Albion Online’s open-world raid bosses work
In anticipation of the upcoming launch of Albion Online, Sandbox Interactive has posted a fresh dev blog on the big bads of the game,...
