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Massively Overthinking: Reconsidering the all-in-one MMO
One of the forever-arguments MMORPG players seem to enjoy having is the one about niche MMOs. There are quite a lot of gamers out...
Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis
Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...
Check out the brand-new look for Camelot Unchained’s ability system UI
Camelot Unchained's latest dev blog runs down everything going on in the game's open beta this week, but it's the new ability builder UI...
Here’s how players will do science in sandbox Population Zero
Still keeping an eye on survival MMO Population Zero? There's yet another dev blog out this week, this one on science and technology in...
Battle Bards Episode 138: Wild wild westerns
Boy howdy, is it time for another highfalutin Battle Bards episode? Shucks, looks like! In this week’s show, the trio saddle up for a...
The Daily Grind: How much does nostalgia drive your MMO play?
Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains that...
Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...
Elder Scrolls Online’s upcoming zone guide will ensure you’re never clueless in Tamriel again
We still don't know exactly which day in February the Wrathstone DLC will launch in The Elder Scrolls Online, but at this point, we...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO or other online title you won’t let your kids play?
So it happened last week: My kid told me I was mean because I wouldn't let him play Fortnite when all his friends got...
Global Chat: Anthem makes first contact with gamers
The game on everyone's mind this month definitely has to be BioWare's Anthem. The studio's first new IP in a long time is a...
Interview: Legends of Aria’s dungeon expansion, early access, ganking, housing, and cash shop philosophy
Indie old-school sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria has become a household name among MMO players over the last few months, first rolling into early...
MMO designer Raph Koster runs down the key mechanics that drive retention in online games
If last week's "games as a service" conversation piqued your interest, hop on over to Raph Koster's blog. The veteran MMORPG designer has a...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: The Warhorn, Hammers End, Auteria, and Antaria Online
On the prowl for an indie RPG gem or two in the rough? We'll start this edition of obscure MMOs with The Warhorn, which sounds...
Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype
If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring.
I started thinking a bit about this last week...
Battle Bards Episode 137: League of Legends’ hero themes
What’s your hero’s theme? If you play League of Legends, you know the answer to that already, because every hero in that game has...
Anthem outlines future plans and preps more server capacity ahead of tomorrow’s public demo
So who's ready for round two of Anthem? BioWare is! The studio's Chad Robertson has penned a new dev blog prepping the playerbase for...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone dives back into Oblivion for dungeon inspiration
One of the dungeons launching in next month's Elder Scrolls Online Wrathstone DLC is Depths of Malatar, a four-man romp featured in ZeniMax's latest...
Exclusive: Survival MMO Population Zero deep-dives its unique perk system
Population Zero caught out attention at the tail end of last year when developer Enplex announced the survival MMO was hitting pre-alpha and opening...
Conan Exiles is replacing its messy old VOIP with Vivox
Players have been asking Funcom to fix voice chat in Conan Exiles pretty much since the day that it went in as a feature....
Global Chat: When MMOs fail to communicate
Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril addresses a point that I've been saying for years now: Many MMOs skew to information overload when it...
