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Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel
A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
Players rolled nearly 50K characters during Nightingale’s stress test last weekend
When Inflexion announced this week that it's planning to launch Nightingale's early access two days earlier than originally planned, it casually mentioned that it...
Overwatch 2’s Season 9 calls to Champions next week
The ninth season of Overwatch 2 is ticking down to launch next week on February 13th with an array of "eldritch horrors" waiting on...
Monsters & Memories recaps player testing – and teases in-game housing
Niche Worlds Cult is back this week with an update on everything the indie studio accomplished in January on its throwback MMO Monsters &...
Kickstarted solarpunk ‘mediumly multiplayer’ Loftia picks up investor seed funds and support
Loftia was easily one of the biggest MMOs to fund on Kickstarter last year: The self-described "mediumly multiplayer" sandbox pulled in $1.27M US for...
Massively Overthinking: Do you care more about MMO stats or looks?
This week's Massively Overthinking is fully inspired by the unicorn backpack meme, which Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss tweeted out last week with the caption "stats over looks any day." You know we have to talk about this.
Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith is launching a spinoff F2P co-op RPG called Zenith Infinite Realms
Zenith - the Kickstarted VR MMO that has yet to actually produce the PC-centric version promised during that campaign - has been hinting at...
Survival MMO Age of Water previews hostile NPC factions and boat construction
On Monday, we dropped a big interview with Gaijin-funded Three Whales Studio, which is aiming to launch its Waterworldish post-apoc oceanfaring survival MMO Age...
New World’s Year of the Dragon mini event rings in Lunar New Year starting February 7
Amazon's latest New World dev blog and video is going ham on a holiday that is slowly but surely taking over the MMORPG festival...
Skull and Bones previews its endgame takeovers, heists, bosses, and ship combat
If there's a genre of dev blog I like least, it's the one where studio staffers pretend to offer an unbiased blog post or...
Guild Wars 2 divulges its new plan for legendary rune compensation in the next patch
Legendary relics! No, ArenaNet is not calling you old; it's heralding the new craftable coming in its third big chunk of the Secrets of...
Tarisland’s new story trailer takes another cue from World of Warcraft
Tarisland fans have not been wanting for fuel to power the mighty hype engines of this upcoming MMORPG. On top of dev blogs and...
Massively Overthinking: Open world difficulty and puzzles in MMOs
During last week's press event ahead of the Gold Road announcement, Elder Scrolls Online's Rich Lambert said something I thought would turn out to...
Anvil Empires introduces new settlement structures, including windmills, in latest pre-alpha
Siege Camp's upcoming sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires continues flying unobtrusively under the radar as it soars through development, and its latest developer blog is...
Valheim, three years in early access, plods along on development of its Ashlands biome
It's apparently survival sandbox week here at the end of January, as Valheim has resurfaced with a fresh dev blog. The game, which next...
Riot Games laid off over 500 people last night, and no we don’t know what it means for the Riot MMO
Riot Games is joining the seemingly endless list of game studios continuing to dump workers overboard: Last night, the company announced it is shedding...
Global Chat: The EverQuest Fippy Awards
The EverQuest Show is starting the year with a for-fun awards ceremony featuring the two EverQuest MMOs. Who will win? Who will lose? Will this be...
EVE Online tweaks Havoc insurgencies, preps monthly EVE Vanguard tests for subbers
This week's EVE Online patch builds on the Havoc expansion CCP Games dropped before the turn of the new year, with both graphical and...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Palia will reduce its beta release cadence – but not its content quantity – in 2024
Singularity 6 is apparently back from holidays and ready with some downer news for Palia. The studio's dev update essentially begins by admitting to...
