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Global Chat: Dispatches from Blaugust 2022
By now, you may have caught wind of Blaugust 2022 -- the latest season of a community effort to encourage, promote, and educate new...
Whatever happened to The Repopulation? (2022 Edition)
A few weeks back, I was working on a column that includes a reference to The Repopulation, and I realized I hadn't heard anything...
Massively Overthinking: What’s so bad about comfort zones in MMOs?
If you've been following the MMORPG meta for a long time, particularly in World of Warcraft, you know there's corner of the industry convinced...
Temtem releases a trailer detailing endgame activities ahead of its September 6 launch
The so-called "Golden Week" of dev blogs from creature collecting MMO Temtem already shared details about the Tamer's Paradise archipelago, an endgame-focused location for...
Massively on the Go: How to make the most of the Pokemon Go Fest Finale
We've known that the August 27th Pokemon Go Go Fest Finale was going to occur since prior to Go Fest proper, but we didn't...
Blade and Soul outlines the solo dungeon arriving with its Dawn of Darkness update
The party piece of Blade & Soul's upcoming Dawn of Darkness patch is the Shrouded Ajanara, a solo dungeon challenge for players to take...
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...
