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Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
Camelot Unchained updates progress on crafting, combat, and character creation
Camelot Unchained's latest monthly newsletter has arrived, and the highlight -- aside from the fact that City State hired Andrew Jackson to work on...
Battle Bards Episode 99: Tropical resort
The Battle Bards are on vacation at a tropical beach paradise! In the team’s 99th episode, they examine beach, resort, and island music cues...
Guild Wars 2’s June feature pack is all about PvP and WvW
So here's a new one for Guild Wars 2: The game's getting a "competitive" feature pack patch in June. The blog post was tweeted out...
Global Chat: Freaking out over Destiny 2
Ever since the Destiny 2 reveal, everyone seems to be freaking out about this follow-up MMO shooter. Will it be the new hotness or...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 119: Finalest Fantasy
Justin and Eliot discuss FFXIV, FFXI, Black Desert, Neverwinter, World of Warcraft, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, EverQuest, Allods, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on MMO role homogenization, PvP pay-to-win, and the Marvel Heroes uproar.
Destiny 2: ‘The life of a cheater will be nasty, brutish, and short’
Bungie's weekly dev blog is still riding high off the big Destiny 2 reveal, but that doesn't mean the text doesn't share anything in...
Massively Overthinking: Disentangling MMO classes and races
Last week, a guildie of mine mentioned that he'd been interested in Crowfall until he realized he couldn't be a gerbil (Guineacean) of the...
How Overwatch was born in the ashes of Blizzard’s Project Titan MMO
A new piece out on the PlayStation blog is picking at MMO players' Project Titan scar.
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan explains that after the seven-year Project...
EVE Online scam highlights the value of friendships over ISK
If you've ever studied the psychology of con men and abusers, you know that one of the ways they get people to trust them...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...
Marvel Heroes Omega soft launches on PlayStation 4 today
Console geeks assemble! It's time to throw off the shackles of responsibility, hygiene, and relationships to devote yourself to a straight week or two of...
Allods Online’s Creation update lands May 23
Next week is shaping up to be a big one for the MMO industry, unsurprisingly, as Memorial Day approaches and schools begin leaking out...
Dark and Light lets you kill, harvest, and stitch together magic pets
Imagine you're a hunter. Imagine that for every deer you kill, you take a part of it home with you and keep it in...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Chronicles of Elyria’s online tech is coming together
Chronicles of Elyria is continuing its... interesting method of disseminating development information by posting blogs about its "adventure teams" and their work on the...
Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?
With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...
Battle Bards Episode 98: Perfect World International
Perfect World — it’s not just a massive games publisher, it’s also an MMORPG! The team at Battle Bards timidly tiptoe into this unknown...
Identity announces SpatialOS integration, delays town square module
It's time to play catch-up on another interesting indie MMORPG, Identity. You may remember this as the contemporary life simulator sandbox that has raised...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
