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Wakfu’s next big update features a level cap increase and five new adventure islands
It's not every day when the bizarrest MMORPG in town gets a preview for a major update, but that day arrived this week as...
New World addresses combat changes, mass reports, world transfers, and more
Amazon has made good on its promise to improve its communication with the New World fanbase, as it's made a rash of comments on...
EVE Online’s latest newbie experience revamp is paying off as CCP Games dabbles in NFTs
EVE Online's latest dev blog has a few teases and backpats in store for denizens of the biggest sci-fi sandbox MMORPG in town. CCP...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
New World addresses economic deflation, trade post linking, cross-region transfers in 4400-word post
Late last night, Amazon published a dev blog addressing even more of the major topics facing the New World community - including promises about...
New World addresses exploits, communication lapses, and goals for its PvP systems
New World has stolen headlines for weeks now thanks to its launch problems, which have been compounded by its parade of exploits and communication...
Battle Bards Episode 203: The music of mobile MMOs
For this week’s episode, the Battle Bards turn their attention to an oft-neglected realm of MMO music — that of mobile titles. Will Steff...
Book of Travels fixes dead NPC poets, features the pesky Omin
Newly arrived to early access tiny MMO Book of Travels posted an equally tiny patch this week. Studio Might and Delight says it's added...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons challenge mode strike missions will ‘feel like proper raid bosses’
If strike missions in Guild Wars 2 are your jam, you're going to want to take a peek at the dev blog ArenaNet's Encounters...
Lost Ark plots a course for beta, lays out its monetization and currency plans
Amazon-published Korean MMORPG Lost Ark published two documents for prospective players this week, addressing both how the upcoming closed beta will play out as...
Blizzard has now fully canceled BlizzConline, originally slated for early 2022
Well, today's Blizzard news isn't going to surprise anyone: The company has canceled its upcoming BlizzConline event.
The online event was originally set for early...
Elder Scrolls Online previews the armory system coming in Update 32
We're just a week away from Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands drop on PC, but it's always worth remembering that the DLC isn't the only...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on who really owns all the stuff inside your video games
Who owns the stuff inside video games? That's the subject of Raph Koster's latest blog. Koster, of course, is a long-time MMO developer, and...
The former lead designer of Ultima Online and Meridian 59 is braving a brutal brain tumor
The universe has been hungry the past couple of years, and now it's threatening another member of the extended MMORPG developer community. This morning,...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs have endings – or at least end points?
I suspect most MMO players are going to read that question and immediately balk at it. We think of MMOs as being defined in...
The Daily Grind: Is New World’s economy already in trouble?
A couple of weeks ago on the MassivelyOP New World roundtable podcast, we criticized the game's fledgling economy, wondering aloud whether it would perk...
Massively Uplifting: Warframe fights cancer, Square Enix helps the Red Cross, and Extra Life 2021 looms
Summer has ended, school has started, and now the leaves have begun to fall as the air turns cooler. It's a time of coziness...
Dual Universe focuses in on removing stacked construct elements and shares more Lua changes
Apparently, players of Dual Universe have been stacking construct elements on top of each other - ie a shield generator overlapped by a space...
Indie sandbox MMO Galaxies of Eden talks crafting and economy, shares a pre-alpha housing test
Looking for Star Wars Galaxies without playing Star Wars Galaxies? Then you probably have your eyes on Galaxies of Eden, the ambitious indie sandbox...
