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CCP Games’ VR multiplayer game aspirations expire as EVE Valkyrie, Sparc, and EVE Gunjack go dark
This past weekend saw CCP Games' run at VR games development die on the vine, as the shooter EVE Gunjack, the sports title Sparc,...
Global Chat: Is Phantasy Star Online 2 a shallow MMO?
In a recent post on trying out Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, blogger Virtual Bastion made the observation that the MMO offered "slick...
Book of Travels elaborates on its prologue and other proposed roadmap changes
While Book of Travels may not want to hold players' hands and explain things directly to them in-game, its recent roadmap update was perhaps...
Blue Protocol’s release slips to sometime past 2022 as a result of Bandai Namco online games restructuring
There has been a long and worrying silence out of Blue Protocol, the anime MMORPG being developed by Bandai Namco; it's been so long,...
World of Warcraft previews Dragonflight’s mountainous Thaldraszus
Come later this year, there will be one word on everyone's lips: "Thaldraszus." (It's pronounced like you were taking a sip of particularly hot...
Massively Overthinking: What endgame content keeps you in an MMORPG long-term?
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to sort through why New World's endgame hasn't had staying power with...
EVE Online shares deeper details on planned factional warfare improvements
During EVE Online's Fanfest, CCP Games shared some early details on updates that were in the pipeline for factional warfare. The devs have since...
Conan Exiles’ Age of Sorcery update arrives to the PC public test server
Are you tired of reading about all of the features arriving to Conan Exiles when its Age of Sorcery update goes live? Are you...
Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones teaches you the basics of ship-to-ship combat
With just a few months before its launch, Skull and Bones really needs to get players on board -- no pun intended -- with...
Craftopia’s upcoming Seamless World update will feature weather, NPC settlements, and refined combat
The name of Craftopia's next major content injection is Seamless World, so naturally most people would expect that creating the titular seamless world is...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2022: More revenue dips for WoW, ABK, and Blizzard in spite of Diablo Immortal
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q2's results, comprising April, May, and June 2022; let's...
Last Oasis previews this week’s Season 5 ‘LOverhaul’ launch
Last Oasis is on the cusp of its Season 5 "LOverhaul," which is set to arrive at some point this week, bringing with it...
Lost Ark’s August and September roadmap promises a pet ranch, Machinist class, and a new legion raid
The months of August and September will bring pet stuff, a guy in sentai armor, and a fight against a creepy clown to Lost...
Massively Overthinking: Is old-school MMO dungeon-camping ever coming back?
A while ago on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I randomly wound up on the topic of camping in MMOs - not pitching a...
Halo Infinite’s co-op campaign won’t have online matchmaking, defers to third-party tools as a solution
The long-awaited campaign co-op feature for Halo Infinite is on its way, but when it releases it's going to be missing a feature that...
Tinkertown is a 2-D multiplayer sandbox ARPG that’s all about building, exploring, and dungeon diving
You may have played a game like Tinkertown before, with its 16-bit 2-D style, sandbox elements like open building and exploration, and lots of...
Global Chat: The virtue of smaller shared worlds
With the rise of online sandboxes and other mini-MMOs (if that oxymoron can exist), several long-time MMO bloggers are praising the virtues and benefits...
Roblox adds higher quality material textures to its player creator toolkit
If we're all honest with ourselves, the visuals of Roblox are... serviceable, but then the games players build can be pretty simplistic. That said,...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO gamers just frogs in a boiling cookpot?
Longtime MOP reader Miol recently wrote us a long email inspired by a non-MMO stream he'd been watching during which the streamer went off...
Conan Exiles summarizes Age of Sorcery’s cash shop and battle pass in a minute-long video
For those who missed the earlier deep-dive from Conan Exiles about the new cash shop and battle pass monetization features coming with the Age...
