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MMO Hype Train: Into the Echo and the wish for a time travel MMO
Are there any MMO projects that you suspect only you remember and care about -- but everyone else has forgotten? I feel that way...
Stars Reach says it ‘heard you loud and clear on graphics improvements’
Last week's Stars Reach trailer captured a lot of attention - so much that studio Playable Worlds decided to focus this week's dev blog...
Massively Overthinking: What are the great ‘popcorn games’ in the MMORPG genre?
MOP reader Elenie recently put the concept of "popcorn MMOs" back on my radar thanks to a comment about Neverwinter being an MMO many...
Guild Wars 2 unveils Mount Balrior, its first proper raid in five years
So if you're looped into the Guild Wars 2 scene, you already know that the second big chunk of the four-part Janthir Wilds expansion...
Fractured hashes out its upcoming seasonal rewards format and announces alliance mechanics
As we've been covering, indie MMORPG sandbox Fractured is heading down the free-to-play path come November 20th, and alongside that relaunch will be the...
Stars Reach’s new trailer shows significant visual improvement – and a partial list of professions
Late last night, Playable Worlds dropped a new trailer for Raph Koster's incoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, along with an update for its NDA.
As...
Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?
Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...
V Rising teases a new region, multiple PvP modes, and the Fusion Forge gear feature
Vampire survivalbox V Rising has been fairly quiet since its official launch last spring (which we loved); Stunlock Studios even told players in June...
The MOP Up: Torchlight Infinite invites you to step into a painting
Torchlight Infinite's sixth season, The Frozen Canvas, arrived with a new character and a mechanic centered around painting and canvases: "As these paintings are...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Wizard’s Wrath and A Wizard’s World
When I first saw mention of A Wizard's World on Reddit this morning, I immediately confused it with another wizardy Kickstarter MMO, Wizard's Wrath....
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever been booted from an MMORPG group because your class wasn’t the meta?
Earlier this month, when some World of Warcraft players were protesting massive nerfs to specific classes, MOP reader Sloth explained the problem superbly: The...
Guild Wars 2’s new dev blog on the warclaw’s inspiration just makes me want another cat IRL
I wasn't entirely convinced that the warclaw mount re-introduced for Janthir Wilds would actually be a mount I used on the daily in Guild...
Massively Overthinking: How much does gross monetization really affect your MMO play decisions?
Over the last couple of weeks, we've had several MMORPG tiffs over pay-to-win claims in our games. DC Universe Online just straight up added...
Classic Guild Wars baddies and bog mummies inspired Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds boss design
If you, as a Guild Wars 2 player, have had your fill of candy corn and the Mad King wrecking your face in jumping...
Stars Reach is dropping ‘a sense of pride and accomplishment’ trophies in tester inventories
Stars Reach isn't just teasing players who want to test it but haven't been invited yet; it's also trolling the people in its test.
"We...
The MOP Up: Lost Ark readies a two-gate raid and server transfers
Lost Ark is pumping out two updates in October, with one already live and a new raid, transfers, and cosmetics coming on October 23rd:...
Massively Overthinking: Are we over early access MMOs and the ‘early access trap’ yet?
A few weeks back, Shadow's Kiss, a Kickstarted vampire MMORPG that probably most of our readers never even knew about, threw in the towel,...
World of Warcraft expands dracthyr classes for its 20th birthday, plus Blizzard patches Hearthstone and Diablo IV
Blizzard is busy this time of year, in just about every one of its online games. Let's start with World of Warcraft, as Blizzard...
Here’s how Elder Scrolls Online’s U44 is rescuing PvP battlegrounds for casuals and hardcores
If you were thinking that Elder Scrolls Online's update 44 isn't packing quite the same sparkling DLC punch as past Q4 updates from the...
Stars Reach is testing its very Star Wars Galaxies-esque ranger skill tree and combat in this weekend’s playtest
Whether or not - and it's probably not - you're in Stars Reach's upcoming playtest, this week's blog post will be of interest to...
