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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...
Fractured Online dresses up its website, consolidates details on races and gameplay systems
Fractured Online has a fresh new fit to its official site, and it's just dying to show it off; if a website could take...
MMO Business Roundup: Blizzard Albany’s union, BioWare Pride, Sony’s antitrust lawsuit, and the P2E ‘hustle’
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Activision-Blizzard: Another group of QA testers within Activision-Blizzard have announced they're...
Blaugust returns for 2022 with achievements and prompts to encourage the MMO blogging community
Blog writers of the internet - gaming related or otherwise - are being invited once again to join in on Blaugust 2022, the annual...
Camelot Unchained checks in with updates to siegecraft, animations, the Heavy Fighter, and the St’rm race
Camelot Unchained has once again returned with its monthly newsletter and development blog - a bit later than usual this time around - offering...
New World says its Medleyfaire event ‘radiates summer fun’
On the New World test server right now is a brand-new event that promises to inject some excitement and joy into the middle of...
Massively Overthinking: Are you a cheater in MMOs or other games?
We recently got a press release about a pair of studies on cheating, and I hesitated to run it as a news article because...
Conan Exiles deep-dives its planned battlepass monetization system
When Age of Sorcery launches for Conan Exiles players later this year, it will completely upend the game's monetization model by switching from a...
Skull and Bones breaks down the different ways players can customize their ship
Since Skull and Bones is all about being a pirate, there's obviously going to be ships in the game. However, the question of what...
Ashes of Creation answers player questions about scope creep, leveling speed, and PvP balance
Whenever Ashes of Creation hosts a monthly developer livestream, it always has a player Q&A session at the end, and the nature of the...
Last Oasis explains design decisions for Season 5 while asking for more player feedback in a poll
Last week saw the woodpunk survival sandbox Last Oasis hold its first beta test for Season 5 - the update that's intended to make...
Conan Exiles’ upcoming creative mode will let players build the castles of their dreams
Building a base in Conan Exiles is something of a long-tail goal for the survival game, but what if you can't deal with all...
World of Warcraft takes players on a tour of Dragonflight’s overhauled crafting system
Perhaps you thought it was curious -- or even exciting -- to see Blizzard flagging World of Warcraft's crafting for a huge update with...
Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...
Global Chat: Changing opinions about WoW’s dungeon finder
With the dungeon finder being left out of Wrath Classic, it's caused more than a few players to re-evaluate the pros and cons of...
