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MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: Best worst way to die in an MMORPG
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards kick off today with our award for the Worst way to die in an MMORPG. Yes, it's time once again...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
New World’s PvP seasonal worlds and season 7 launch January 21
At the end of November, Amazon finally released a roadmap for New World, revealing its plan to launch the PvP-themed season 7 early in...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
Co-op skyship survivalbox Echoes of Elysium will be published by Snail Games
Remember Echoes of Elysium, the multiplayer survivalbox coming from Loric Games? It's one of multiple co-op skyship-themed sandboxes we've been watching for the last few...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2024
You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn't be a thing. We've been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on...
Chronicles of Elyria dev claims development is ‘progressing steadily,’ but no, you can’t see it
When last we heard from Chronicles of Elyria, Soulbound Studio's Jeromy Walsh explained that the company was once again struggling financially and that he...
Star Wars Galaxies Restoration teases new species, a housing deco upgrade, and a combat tree overhaul
Star Wars Galaxies fans always get a little sad every December as it marks the original MMORPG's deathiversary. But we're blessed to have multiple...
Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
MMO Hype Train: My growing obsession with Stars Reach
As much as I respect Raph Koster for all of his passion and pioneering of MMORPGs, I've rarely crossed paths with his games, notably...
DC Universe Online’s new leadership teases new content format and event system in 2025
We don't know whether anyone but us has noticed this, but Daybreak is having one hell of a week with content or announcements for...
Final Fantasy XIV community institutes new world first rules after players use add-ons to cheat (again)
For players who claim to have the highest levels of skill in Final Fantasy XIV, it's extremely fascinating that members of this facet of...
Ubisoft is shuttering XDefiant already, along with multiple studios – around 277 workers affected
Dreadful news for XDefiant fans and Ubisoft workers tonight: The game is closing down permanently, and several hundred Ubisoft employees are being laid off.
Ubisoft...
Path of Exile 2 confirms pre-download of its early access PC client is coming December 5
If you're the kind of Path of Exile 2 fan who is staring at the clock, fruitlessly willing it to tick down faster in...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP stories of 2024
As you're reading this, it's Thanksgiving night, and the end-of-the-year insanity is about to begin. You're going to be treated to a whole ton...
Ship of Heroes spent its fall working on everything from difficulty sliders to an auction hall
Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes is still trucking along in development, I'm happy to report today, and the latest bits are recapped in...
Wurm Online is patching in buildable ceilings this week and teasing the goblin camp revamp
Wurm Online doesn't get enough attention in the MMORPG industry, in our opinion anyway, so we're going to rectify that today as the developers...
Star Citizen teases the Polaris capital ship release and plans for capital ship combat
In internet spaceship naval warfare, sometimes bigger is better, and it doesn't get too much bigger than the Polaris, the upcoming corvette-class capital ship...