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Nightingale’s team ‘flexes’ its creative muscles by adding fishies and grumpy critters
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
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
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
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...
Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith is plotting a 2.0 overhaul guided by six core design pillars
VR MMO Zenith has a new blog post out from developer Ramen VR, promising to shake up the game with "fundamental changes" in a...
Daybreak announces Year of Darkpaw to celebrate EverQuest and EverQuest II in 2024
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
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
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
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
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...
Global Chat: Why does CCP keep trying to make EVE shooters?
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
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
Eternal Tombs - the MMO originally known as War of Dragnorox - has another dev blog out this week, this time demoing the cutest...
What’s the most cost-effective inventory option in Lord of the Rings Online? One blogger’s done the math
Lord of the Rings Online blogger and guide-maker extraordinaire FibroJedi has pubbed a super useful post this week we just have to highlight because...
Ship of Heroes buffs up its travel powers in the service of this weird thing called ‘fun’
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I derailed into talking about superhero powers and travel powers, so it's perfect timing that Heroic Games'...
Massively Overthinking: Penalties for failure in MMORPGs (beyond death)
MMOs generally have one big obvious penalty for failure, right? You die. Oh, usually not forever, not unless it's some niche hardcore realm, and...
Nightingale opens Steam stress test signups ahead of 2024 launch
Like many of you, we were sad to learn back in August that steampunk sandbox Nightingale was being delayed yet again - its third...
Bossa Games’ post-Worlds Adrift co-op game, Lost Skies, heads into pre-alpha
We've had an eye on Bossa Games - again - ever since May of this year, when the company best known to MMORPG players...
BitCraft delicately balances social interactions and private ownership with its player housing
The fact that BitCraft, Clockwork Labs' upcoming investor-funded sandbox MMO, will feature player housing is something that one might take for granted. But what...
New World completes server merges, teases PUG finder, and addresses roadmap delays
New World's planned server merge went off yesterday without much of a hitch. Readers will recall that Amazon originally announced the merge of nine...
