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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024

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For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...

Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023

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Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2024

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Stop right there. I know you're about to object and say that you don't do resolutions, let alone MMO resolutions. That's fine. A lot...

Guild Wars 2’s ArenaNet is working on expansions for both 2024 and 2025 already

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Guild Wars 2 is ending 2023 with a traditional dev blog recapping the year and looking ahead to what will be the game's fifth...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP articles of 2023

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Every year, we pick out a bunch of narrative arcs and stories that dominated the headlines and emotions of the MMORPG genre, and it...

PlanetSide 2 is considering everything from class reworks to server merges in 2024

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PlanetSide 2 has had a bit of a rocky year, swinging from the heights of a 20th anniversary of the franchise to the lows...

Corepunk’s latest NDA-free test round sees mixed reviews, early game complaints, and survival annoyances

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The latest NDA-free alpha test for OARPG Corepunk is almost wrapped up (it ends this Wednesday, December 20th), but already player impressions are a...

Nightingale’s team ‘flexes’ its creative muscles by adding fishies and grumpy critters

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In its final dev blog of 2023, Victorian realm-hopping sandbox Nightingale hopes to end the year by "flexing" its creative projects and giving all...

Battle Bards Episode 230: The music of Palia

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Ready to get your cozy on? Syp and Syl take you into the relatively new life sim Palia to explore its down-home-on-the-player-farm tunes. Is...

Tarisland addresses genderlocking and pay-to-win, boosts raiding over crafting

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Following Tarisland's second closed beta, Tencent has resurfaced with another dev blog exploring player feedback - and what the company aims to do about...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024

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It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...
I'm sure it's fine.

Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith is plotting a 2.0 overhaul guided by six core design pillars

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VR MMO Zenith has a new blog post out from developer Ramen VR, promising to shake up the game with "fundamental changes" in a...
Yeah, that makes sense.

Daybreak announces Year of Darkpaw to celebrate EverQuest and EverQuest II in 2024

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With both of its EverQuest franchise expansions for 2023 out the door, Daybreak's Darkpaw Games is already queueing up the teases for EverQuest 1's...

‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue

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We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...

Massively Overthinking: Best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2023

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I have to thank all the MMO developers and industry veterans out there for talking long past the time when they should stop talking....

New World announces holiday event kickoff December 12, talks performance and bugs in latest video

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Christmas returns to New World next week - or rather I should say, the Winter Convergence Festival: "Holiday cheer spreads across Aeternum once more...

Diablo Immortal’s Splintered Souls update promises new maps, quests, and familiars

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Oh hey, remember Diablo Immortal? Blizzard definitely hasn't forgotten all about its last extant project with NetEase, and in fact, its next big patch...
You only remember these people when someone dies.

Global Chat: Why does CCP keep trying to make EVE shooters?

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We're not the only ones who keep wondering why CCP continues to push for an FPS game set in the EVE Online universe. Long-time...

Star Citizen breaks a crowdfunding record for November with over $28M in sales

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In case it wasn't clear what Star Citizen was hoping for when it launched last month's IAE event, the sales numbers for the month...

Eternal Tombs demos low-level melee and magic combat ahead of next test

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Eternal Tombs - the MMO originally known as War of Dragnorox - has another dev blog out this week, this time demoing the cutest...

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