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Wizard 101 announces the arrival of a test realm and new pet features that will be up for testing

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The arrival of a test realm very often seems to be a development that's met with a lot of praise from players, so fans...

COVID-19 roundup: Game platforms, pandemic sales, and the potential for a digital Gamescom

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I think it's high time I took over one of these coronavirus roundup stories, wouldn't you agree? So allow me to offer yet another...

Battle Bards Episode 165: LOTRO Composer Bill Champagne

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On this Very Special Edition of the Battle Bards, Lord of the Rings Online’s Bill Champagne sat down for an interview to talk about...

Final Fantasy XIV temporarily suspends automatic housing demolition because of COVID-19

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While one would assume that self-isolation or quarantine due to the novel coronavirus would mean more time in your in-game house in Final Fantasy...

Massively Overthinking: What do you hoard in MMORPGs?

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Last week, online gamers made headlines for hoarding toilet paper. No, not in real life - in Fallout 76. Way to embrace the apocalypse,...
Pshoo.

Torchlight III shows off the Sharpshooter class in new alpha video

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Multiplayer not-an-MMO-anymore Torchlight III has a new dev blog and video out today on the Sharpshooter, its very last new class before launch. MMO...
WHO'S A KITTY?!

Guild Wars 2 explores player variety and choices in Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire

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Not gonna lie, my kids have been begging me for Super Adventure Box all week, and everytime ArenaNet tweets something on the Guild Wars...

SEED elaborates on how and when it will moderate its community

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If you're in a sandbox MMO where people are generally meant to work together and your community draws in a pretty varied number of...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 264: Don’t feel blue, MapleStory 2

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Justin, Bree, Eliot, and Chris discuss the pandemic's positive impact on gaming, MapleStory 2, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, and Warhammer Online, with adventures in Animal Crossing, Star Trek Online, GW2, SWG Legends, Dauntless, and FFXIV, and an epic lightning round mailbag.

The Star Wars Galaxies rogue server community is collaborating on a multi-emu support project

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Feeling a little disconnected from the world right now? You're not alone, and multiple MMO communities are coming together to try to fix that....

MMO blogging community fights quarantine boredom with ‘Blapril 2020’ project

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With so many MMO gamers and bloggers stuck at home this month, any distraction from real-world doldrums is both welcome and needed. To address...

Massively Overthinking: What MMO topics have you changed your mind on over the years?

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On last week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering a fun question from MOP reader and listener Pieter about...
Red, red... everything, it seems.

New World details how players will battle the PvE baddies known as The Corrupted

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So, you can't just gank everyone you see in New World anymore. That means there's no sense of danger, right? Yeah, not so much....

Desert Oasis: How Pearl Abyss can guarantee Shadow Arena succeeds

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Hands down, Shadow Arena is my favorite battle royale. But just because I've written so many glowing words of accolades for the game does...
This will probably be on the list.

Battle Bards Episode 164: Away with the fairies

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If you ever walked into a forest glade at the light of the first full moon of the year, you may spy an impish...

Global Chat: Don’t mess with my GeForce Now

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The titanic struggle going on right now between cloud-based game streaming platform GeForce Now and studios who are pulling their titles from it is...

Survival sandbox Population Zero outlines its new 168-hour cycle and account progression

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You arrive to the wilds of Population Zero. You have seven days to live. Go. That's, in an extremely unrefined nutshell, the basic gameplay...

Coronavirus roundup: EGX Rezzed, Pokemon Go, and using MMOs to learn from home

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We're capping off an odd week of coverage here in our little corner of the online gaming world, as even those of us who've...

Daybreak’s new EverQuest and EverQuest II boss Jennifer Chan addresses players in new dev blog

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Last week, Daybreak's Holly Longdale stunned players of EverQuest and EverQuest II when she announced she'd be leaving the Daybreak team she's headed up...

PlanetSide 2’s big Escalation update is live as EU server migration is underway

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It's finally happening: Escalation is about to go live for eager PlanetSide 2 players. We've been covering this update since February, when Daybreak and Rogue...

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