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Massively Overthinking: Are there any ‘blue oceans’ left in the MMO market?
Level Up Labs' Lars Doucet recently penned a blog post practically begging people not to try to compete with ROBLOX by remaking it as...
Destiny 2 on PvP: ‘The ultimate goal here is consistency’
Writing what probably should have been a full dev blog in its own right, Destiny 2 Assistant Game Director Joe Blackburn put out a...
Player-run Open Perpetuum goes fully free-to-play on Steam
Care for a little free-to-play sandbox gaming? How about one where you are a robot in an open world? If you've been curious about...
Lineage II’s casual friendly version includes an action-packed solo dungeon
Hopefully you didn't miss the word that Lineage II is about to launch a brand-new version of the game that's far more casual-friendly than...
Playable Worlds’ lead designer: ‘Our industry does not thrive on ideas’
Raph Koster's startup Playable Worlds is working on an MMORPG. A big one. A big one we don't know much about yet, in spite...
Star Sonata 2 adjusts support classes, adds a new zone, and introduces base upgrading features
Let's check in on Star Sonata 2, shall we? After all, the last time we had a peek in on this one it had...
Competitive MMO Lands of Kehliel posts slow but sure progress on its first match
Do you remember Lands of Kehliel? It first crossed our desk in November of last year, promising a competition-focused open world MMORPG experience where...
SEED dev blogs discuss city building, player testing reactions, and the first version of an economy
If you were worried that the somewhat sort list suggested by this story's headline meant that there weren't a lot of developer blogs roaring...
Battle Bards Episode 198: Final Fantasy XI expansions
Return with us to the lands of Vana’diel, as the Battle Bards dip into the ocean of Final Fantasy XI expansion music. While Syl...
An Activision-Blizzard worker was arrested for bathroom peeping in 2018
We're on day 10 of the Activision-Blizzard scandal - 10 days since we first learned California had filed a massive sexual discrimination and sexual...
Massively Overthinking: Has Blizzard’s sexism lawsuit changed your gaming plans?
Following last week's disturbing revelation that Blizzard has been covering up more than a decade of abuse and that the state of California is...
Lost Ark previews the Assassin and its Shadowhunter and Deathblade elite versions
So you want to be a stabby rogue in Lost Ark? You're gonna have to roll an Assassin. That's the class under the spotlight...
Crowfall begins testing The Shadow update, plans capacity testing tonight
Can you believe Crowfall's been live for three weeks now? It has, and ArtCraft is back with another weekly blog - and a tease...
New World beta player snags the name AmazonOfficial, uses game’s chat to troll Amazon
As anticipated as the game New World may be, we do have to bear in mind that Amazon, the company that's funding Amazon Games'...
Lost Ark reveals all of its ‘normalized’ founder packs and perks
Amazon and Smilegate have released a detailed blog post this afternoon focused on the upcoming Lost Ark's founder packs. And cats. The cats are...
Whatever happened to the Age of Wushu franchise?
This story has something of an interesting progression to it. It began with a dive into whatever happened to Age of Wushu, which then...
EVE Online’s Grand Heist update goes live as players raise concerns about ISK login rewards for subscribers
Yesterday saw the bank robbing profession come to EVE Online as the Grand Heist update officially went live. Readers will recall that this update...
Book of Travels explains how players will communicate without text chat
One of the many, many factors that will set the upcoming Book of Travels apart from your boiler-plate online RPGs is that the game...
Blaugust blog writing initiative returns to challenge bloggers to write for a whole month
Regular readers of MOP doubtlessly know that we're all about highlighting and supporting MMO gaming blogs. Regulars also know that we like to signal...
Old School RuneScape talks about combat achievements, RuneScape announces the Nodon Front
Chasing achievements is a thing that many gamers seem to love, so players of Old School RuneScape who are cut from the same cloth...
