blogger
Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs look like in 2025?
A couple of years ago - yeah, I save weird things in my "ideas bin" folder - MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a...
‘I think we’ve cooked’: MMO sandbox BitCraft prepares for a Steam early access beta
Way back in 2021, we started following an up-and-coming MMORPG sandbox sim called BitCraft that - despite its perhaps inauspicious name - was not...
Once Human unveils big plans for account-wide unlocks and long-term scenario servers
If you hear the name NetEase, you probably think Marvel Rivals these days, but the company has a huge number of other titles still...
Stars Reach teases adorable retro bug people for its newly unlocked species
As we noted yesterday, when Stars Reach crossed the $500,000 crowdfunding threshhold on Kickstarter, players effectively unlocked the pre-launch (rather than post-launch) addition of...
Path of Exile 2 previews March’s update and monster concept art
Path of Exile 2 is gearing up for a significant March update in a couple weeks, with Grinding Gear Games doling out previews of...
Massively Overthinking: The things we wish we didn’t know about the MMO industry
A few weeks ago, the MOP writers were sitting around in Discord avoiding work when the subject of a certain industry website's known pay-for-play...
Lost Ark teases the Wildsoul class, updates booster events, and limits bussing and spam
Amazon's latest dev blog for Lost Ark is a melange of info, starting with news that the studio plans to properly support the upcoming...
Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
Pax Dei outlines its building revamp with an eye toward accessibility and consistency
Mainframe's sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei is back with yet another Discord dev blog today, this one homing in on homes - well, more specifically,...
Marvel Snap finally delivers character mastery progression with February’s update
It seems like forever ago that Second Dinner first teased "character mastery" as an upcoming system, but now after a lot of talk, the...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2024: PA is obscuring EVE Online and Black Desert revenues in its best quarter all year
Pearl Abyss ended its 2024 financial year on a high-ish note - a welcome surprise after a year of muddling-through - but also a...
Temtem continues to defend its final content patch as ‘the completion of a journey that began eight years ago’
A couple of weeks ago, Crema Games marked two million total users for its creature collecting MMO Temtem by spending some of its time...
DECA games finally addresses Star Trek Online playerbase following Cryptic’s forced exit
Ever since Embracer announced that it was moving Cryptic's MMORPG operations from Cryptic to smol bean European studio DECA, the playerbases of Star Trek...
‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars Reach is hoping for ‘a few hundred thousand players’
Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
Raph Koster offers a high-level overview of what Stars Reach is and what you’ll do in it
"Today I’m going to give you a tour of Stars Reach, the game. Like, the whole thing." So begins Raph Koster's latest dev blog...
Blizzard lays out the design pillars for World of Warcraft’s accessible neighborhood housing
The news that World of Warcraft is getting housing with its next expansion, Midnight, shocked the whole MMORPG genre - and us too, as...
Chronicles of Elyria’s dev blogs disappear, and there’s no timeline for when they’ll return
This past December we reported on the continued drawing inward of communication and updates from the kickstarted MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria, as Soulbound Studio's...
RuneScape outlines tweaks to level 110 Runecrafting that include a new rune and new craftable items
With Woodcutting and Fletching having a new high-level mark in RuneScape, the time is soon coming for another crafting profession to hit a max...
MultiVersus will close again in May, and this time it’s not coming back
MultiVersus is shutting down again, and unlike the last time, this one's going to stick.
"Season 5 will serve as the final seasonal content update...
