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The Daily Grind: What do you think about the New World delay?

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Last week's Friday afternoon news was the revelation that Amazon's MMORPG New World has been delayed for at least the third time that we...

Global Chat: Being scared of devs ‘improving’ MMOs

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Do you ever live in fear that the development team behind your favorite MMORPG might screw things up in the name of progress and...

Second Life developer Linden Lab has been acquired by an investment group

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Fun trivia fact: The AOL blog that eventually became Massively actually started life as a Second Life blog back when Second Life was huge....

Massively Overthinking: How much should MMOs cost in 2020?

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MOP reader Castagere recently wrote to us with a nod to the growing sentiment across the gaming industry that might indicate a shift in...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: Dissecting the drips and drabs from the Shadowlands reveal stream

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All right. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands kicks off its beta next week. I would kind of like to be involved in that! I am...
Another postcard, with... yaks.

RuneScape improves its chat filtering, OSRS adds more Poll 71 features and tweaks death mechanics

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Surprise, surprise, some players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have been presumably trying to circumvent the hard-locked chat terms meant to discourage hateful...

Battle Bards Episode 172: Lost Ark

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Although Lost Ark is still making its slow journey to the west, the music arrived ahead — on a songbird, of course! It’s a...

Massively Overthinking: Can Amazon actually save Crucible?

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Earlier this week, Amazon pulled Crucible back into closed beta for some hefty retooling, a move that surprised basically no one. We'd watched the...

Magic Legends reveals the secrets of its jungle illusion

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One of the places that Magic Legends will adventure through is Tazeem, a dense and beautiful jungle. But as Cryptic Studios explained, it's somewhat...

A new crafting and work order feature has come to horse MMO Star Stable

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There's no way I'm letting a chance to talk about online horsies pass me by, especially when crafting's involved. Yep, kid-friendly equestrian-themed MMO Star...

Life sim MMO Identity is ‘still being worked on’ according to forum moderators

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So let's talk about Identity, shall we? This life sim MMO has been silent for the better part of a year now, resurfacing only...
My ideas are so good!

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen preps the Black Rose keep and a new website

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The fifth round of pre-alpha testing is on the way for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and it looks like the game is getting...
Bad plans.

Global Chat: Too many shipwrecks in MMOs

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In the vast annals of MMO tropes, there's one that has been in front of you all along and you've probably never noticed: shipwrecking...

Star Citizen outlines a variety of flight and space combat adjustments coming to alpha 3.10

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Star Citizen is going to involve flying and fighting in spaceships. That's literally it's whole deal. So, naturally, the developers at CIG want to...

Massively Overthinking: Does playing MMORPGs ever stress you out?

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"Anyone ever feel stressed out about playing MMOs?" MOP's Carlo queried our team this week. "This new Black Desert season is stressing me out...

Kickstarted MMO Book of Travels on ‘writing a game like a picture book’

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Book of Travels is seriously the serenity I need right now. The latest dev blog details the mini-MMO's narrative design, which Might and Delight...
Uh-oh.

New World’s latest video says it’s possible to ‘become the best craftsman on the server’

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If Amazon's detailed dev blogs on New World's crafting and progression didn't grab you, maybe the studio's latest video will. The devs lay out...

Warcraft movie director Duncan Jones chats about the sequels we never got

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So this was an interesting little event on Twitter. A film blogger tweeted out a brief notice that he was watching the Warcraft film...

OrbusVR prepares summertime events and an economy update for June 23

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The summer season is coming to OrbusVR in a matter of days, and with it will be a shiny new update full of summery...

Legends of Runeterra will get new modes and its first event during the Season of Fortune

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What's coming next for Riot Games' Legends of Runeterra? A fair number of things according to a recent dev blog which outlines what players...

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