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City of Titans is releasing a big avatar builder patch next week
It's been a while since we've heard a whole lot from the City of Titans team, but Missing Worlds Media is back with a...
Massively Overthinking: Has the pandemic changed your gaming habits?
There was a popular Medium piece floating around last week about how some people are finding refuge in gaming during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic....
Last Oasis maps out 2020 content, plans another year of early access
Remember at the end of June, when Last Oasis rolled out the first part of its Volcanic update? The second part is live today,...
Battle Bards Episode 173: Down on the farm
Seeking a simpler and more quaint life? Then come on down to the farm with the Battle Bards, as the video game music crew...
EVE Online’s Zenith update begins the apex to the Triglavian invasion, adds new items and features
Today marks the rising crescendo of the Triglavian invasion in EVE Online. The Zenith update kicks off the beginning of the sandbox's third quadrant...
Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif talks servers, housing, and moderating the playerbase
In an interview with the Paradox Gaming Network, Intrepid Studios' Steven Sharif answered a whole slew of questions regarding Ashes of Creation, whether it's...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about the New World delay?
Last week's Friday afternoon news was the revelation that Amazon's MMORPG New World has been delayed for at least the third time that we...
Global Chat: Being scared of devs ‘improving’ MMOs
Do you ever live in fear that the development team behind your favorite MMORPG might screw things up in the name of progress and...
Second Life developer Linden Lab has been acquired by an investment group
Fun trivia fact: The AOL blog that eventually became Massively actually started life as a Second Life blog back when Second Life was huge....
Massively Overthinking: How much should MMOs cost in 2020?
MOP reader Castagere recently wrote to us with a nod to the growing sentiment across the gaming industry that might indicate a shift in...
WoW Factor: Dissecting the drips and drabs from the Shadowlands reveal stream
All right. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands kicks off its beta next week. I would kind of like to be involved in that! I am...
RuneScape improves its chat filtering, OSRS adds more Poll 71 features and tweaks death mechanics
Surprise, surprise, some players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have been presumably trying to circumvent the hard-locked chat terms meant to discourage hateful...
Battle Bards Episode 172: Lost Ark
Although Lost Ark is still making its slow journey to the west, the music arrived ahead — on a songbird, of course! It’s a...
Magic Legends reveals the secrets of its jungle illusion
One of the places that Magic Legends will adventure through is Tazeem, a dense and beautiful jungle. But as Cryptic Studios explained, it's somewhat...
A new crafting and work order feature has come to horse MMO Star Stable
There's no way I'm letting a chance to talk about online horsies pass me by, especially when crafting's involved. Yep, kid-friendly equestrian-themed MMO Star...
Life sim MMO Identity is ‘still being worked on’ according to forum moderators
So let's talk about Identity, shall we? This life sim MMO has been silent for the better part of a year now, resurfacing only...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen preps the Black Rose keep and a new website
The fifth round of pre-alpha testing is on the way for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and it looks like the game is getting...
Global Chat: Too many shipwrecks in MMOs
In the vast annals of MMO tropes, there's one that has been in front of you all along and you've probably never noticed: shipwrecking...
Star Citizen outlines a variety of flight and space combat adjustments coming to alpha 3.10
Star Citizen is going to involve flying and fighting in spaceships. That's literally it's whole deal. So, naturally, the developers at CIG want to...
Massively Overthinking: Does playing MMORPGs ever stress you out?
"Anyone ever feel stressed out about playing MMOs?" MOP's Carlo queried our team this week. "This new Black Desert season is stressing me out...
