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Vague Patch Notes: If people aren’t raiding in an MMO, it’s not because it’s too hard
The start of the year, at least from my perspective, was dominated by Blizzard doing lots of dumb things. So it's kind of nice,...
Cliff Bleszinski now claims LawBreakers failed because it was ‘too woke’
Well, that's it, everyone. Shut it down. The English language had a pretty good run, but it's over now. Cliff Bleszinski, also known as...
Blizzard gives a half-hearted apology for Warcraft III: Reforged
Make no mistake: Warcraft III: Reforged is going down in history as one of the worst-received and most poorly handled Blizzard launches. The incredibly...
Interview: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs just announced a new game called Colossus
Camelot Unchained studio City State Entertainment has been teasing something big for a while now. This morning, CSE's Mark Jacobs told backers to tune...
Torchlight Frontiers launches this summer as Torchlight III – and it’s not an MMO now
So here's one nobody quite got right in the 2020 predictions: Torchlight Frontiers is changing its name to Torchlight III, with a summer launch...
Following studio layoffs, Frostkeep is sunsetting Rend in one week
Earlier this month, we reported on layoffs of unknown size at Rend developer Frostkeep Studios. Now, the studio has admitted that it'll be closing...
WoW Factor: Oh no, Visions of N’zoth is real bad
Based on a wholly informal poll based on what's going around the community right now, I've compiled most of the agreed-upon positives for the...
Daybreak formally announces the new substudios for PlanetSide, EverQuest, and DCUO
Last year was riddled with rumors coming out of Daybreak Games, as last summer the once-glorious MMORPG company registered multiple websites and trademarks for Darkpaw Games, Rogue...
New World just took a hard turn away from a PvP slugfest, and hardcore PvPers are not happy
Even knowing it was slated to arrive, I was still surprised last night when Amazon Game Studios dropped New World's latest dev blog well...
The Elder Scrolls Online announces Greymoor chapter, Harrowstorm DLC, and Dark Heart of Skyrim
As this afternoon's community event in Vegas, ZeniMax Online Studios formally announced the latest year-long theme for The Elder Scrolls Online, The Dark Heart...
Guild Wars 2 previews Shadows in the Ice’s best features in new trailer
Here we go, folks - with the Lunar New Year festival underway in Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet is now turning its promotional attention back...
ArcheAge players score $420,000 in ancient class action suit over consumer law violations
We've been following the saga of the ArcheAge lawsuit for what seems like ages now. Back in 2015, three gamers filed a class action lawsuit...
World of Warcraft launches patch 8.3, Visions of N’Zoth, today
Who's feeling downright crazy today? It's the day for crazy in World of Warcraft with the launch of patch 8.3, Visions of N'Zoth, concluding the Battle for...
MassivelyOP’s complete 2019 awards debrief and annual recap
As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, today I'm going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from the end of...
Cryptic’s Magic: Legends is an isometric RPG and not an MMORPG because of earth elemental butt
Yesterday, we got our first look at the gameplay in Cryptic's upcoming Magic: Legends MMO, and, well, it didn't go over that well. In...
The first gameplay footage of Magic: Legends is available now for your viewing pleasure
So after the surprise reveal of Magic: Legends, we've all been awaiting the first glance at what the game's actual gameplay will be like......
Escape from Tarkov confirms no playable female characters because of ‘game lore’ and workload
Sorry, ladies, but it's just too ding-dong-dang difficult to put y'all in Escape from Tarkov. That's the cited reason why the game's developer, Battlestate Games,...
NCsoft follows up City of Heroes code copyright filing with fresh trademark application
Do you folks remember last summer when we learned that NCsoft had filed copyright documentation for the City of Heroes game code? The June...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup
The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...
