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City State Entertainment’s Final Stand: Ragnarok heralds the arrival of ‘first access’
It's been some time since we had heard much about Final Stand: Ragnarok, the second game coming from Camelot Unchained developer City State Entertainment;...
Albion Online studio Sandbox Interactive just got bought out for more than €100M
As it turns out, the MMO industry is going to see one more big buyout move before 2021 is upon us. Last night, Albion...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street confirms that Riot Games is working on a League of Legends MMO
Are you ready for that League of Legends MMO? Because it looks as though it's actually going to be coming your way.
On Thursday evening,...
Winter holiday events around the MMO universe, 2020 edition
Ho ho ho, it's Santa's younger brother Derrick here to do all of the jobs that Nick can't be bothered with this holiday season!...
Chronicles of Elyria is still in development, new video from Soulbound vows
Chronicles of Elyria's 2020 saga is without a doubt of the most concerning MMO stories of the entire year. This past spring, after reaching...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends will launch Bespin as the City in the Clouds expansion in early 2021
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server Star Wars Galaxies Legends has some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that it's put...
Black Desert unveils new Nova class, Pearl Abyss takes over western PC publishing
The digital Calpheon Ball has come and gone for Black Desert, and it's brought with it the reveal of a devastating-looking new class. Say...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert’s big reveal, ARK 2, and Elite Dangerous Odyssey preorders
We're updating the end with the big news and videos as they roll in!
Even as our own awards have begun rolling out, the broader...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards!
Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs going into 2021
It is only natural that, when you are shopping around for a different MMORPG to play, to consider the health of potential play candidates....
Blizzard claims World of Warcraft Shadowlands is the fastest-selling PC game of all time
Blizzard is breathlessly proclaiming this morning that World of Warcraft Shadowlands is the fastest-selling PC game of all time, by virtue of its having...
The Soapbox: Pet battles are one of the best things WoW ever did (which is why I’ve never played one)
Pokemon first burst onto the scene when I was in elementary school. I've always been lukewarm at best toward anime and "cute" things, so...
LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
WoW Factor: The five paths forward for WoW Classic
Throughout its lifespan, WoW Classic has had an interesting relationship with the future. Not just because it is and always was an explicitly back-looking piece...
Vague Patch Notes: You are and are not who you are in MMOs
If you've never been hit in the face, you're not really prepared for when someone does it, much less when it's a fist instead...
Console LOTRO and DCUO’s huge playerbase: Everything we just learned about Daybreak thanks to EG7
MMO twitter has been ablaze since yesterday's announcement that Daybreak is being bought up in its entirety by Swedish games company Enad Global 7,...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2020
Whew. We're finally getting close to the end of 2020, and I think I speak for all of us when I say that it...
Daybreak has been sold – again – this time to EG7 Global for $300M
Who had this on the end-of-the-year bingo card? Apparently, Daybreak has been bought out - again.
The company holding the hot potato this round is...
First Impressions of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, part three: Influences and summation
One of the things that I generally like to avoid doing is comparing World of Warcraft to other MMOs on the market. Even as we've...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, part two: Endgame experience
Once you get to max level in World of Warcraft, the game changes. This should not be a surprise, as it has been the...
