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Justin and Bree discuss Anthem Next's demise, Defiance and Gamigo's MMO purge, DDO's big news, Black Desert's free-play, Riot's MMO, and mobile Warcraft, with adventures in LOTRO, City of Heroes, WoW Classic, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on post subs, Valheim, and MMOs as they used to be.

It’s only been a little bit of time, but I am already mightily impressed with Wizard101. The game has a pretty rich and involved following,...

When we use the shorthand "MMO" for online games, it's always assumed that we're talking about swords-and-sorcery or sci-fi RPGs. However, the massively multiplayer...

This week in MMORPG crowdfunding was all about roadmaps for Kickstarted MMORPGs. Camelot Unchained posted its latest 90-day plan with work on RvR zones,...

It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're...

While most of the writers at MOP support online games preservation through responsible methods, the ideal situation would be the ability to visit shutdown...

ArcheAge's misery just compounds lately: Gamigo has announced that it's merging many of the gamers servers servers under the "server evolution" catchphrase. Across both...

Why wait for an update to arrive when you can pre-order a collector's edition of an update before it even lands? This is the...

Is your Xbox Game Pass subscription missing some internet spaceship sandbox gaming? Not for long, friend, because the next batch of games coming to...

I was chit-chatting with longtime MOP reader Bruno the other day when we starting yawing about RIFT and EverQuest II and which one was...

Whenever you're stuck for an MMO topic to talk about on a blog, you can never go wrong with chewing on the concept of...

Gonna be honest, ArcheAge Unchained's business model has flipped and scooched so many times now that I can't even keep track of it -...

It's been some time since Ingress, the MMOARG from the same company that brought us Pokemon Go, has been in the news, but this...

This week in MMORPG crowdfunding, the backers of Chronicles of Elyria have officially lodged their class-action lawsuit against Soulbound Studios and Xsolla in a...

I played Skyforge briefly when it first launched on PC in 2015, but only put a few hours into it. My short stay there...

Blizzard is no slouch when it comes to Lunar New Year celebrations: Its largest online titles have all gotten updates for the season. In World...

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to participate in an experiment. I want you to write up a nice long...

If given the option, I would probably get a lifetime subscription to Final Fantasy XIV. But the key word there is probably, and this is a...

What exactly is value, especially when it comes to MMOs? We all know what the word means, but the thing about "best value" is that...

We're off to a good 2021 for MMO crowdfunding: Pantheon got a nice infusion of investment, Chronicles of Elyria posted a second video on its...