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Not So Massively: Eternal Card Game’s gauntlet problem
A little over a year ago, I discovered digital CCG Eternal Card Game and sung the praises of its robust solo content. Since then...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon rebounds, Pantheon regroups
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks!
Pantheon has fully backtracked on its plans to launch the 247 extraction...
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
Throne and Liberty’s new trailer envisions an action-packed boss fight
You know what you need today? A nice injection of trailer hype, courtesy of NCsoft's upcoming Throne and Liberty. While it's not actual gameplay...
Cinderstone Online has apparently sunsetted after just two months as devs plan F2P relaunch
Over the last couple of years, we've kept an eye on Cinderstone Online aka Fioresia Online, a cutesy indie MMO that actually made it...
The Daily Grind: How dedicated are you to wealth generation in MMOs?
There was a span of time a few years back when I heavily engaged with the World of Warcraft economy to make as much...
RuneScape improves dungeon visuals, refreshes premier rewards, and applies Zamorak improvements
It's a new week of stuff for players of RuneScape, with the MMORPG adding a new lick of visual paint to some dungeons, making...
Order of the Elements is a new old-school MMO hoping to launch on Steam in 2025
Howasabout another upcoming MMO to watch on Steam? Order of the Elements is stepping up to be just that MMO. Developer TigerRoll has the...
Vague Patch Notes: BlizzCon 2023 wasn’t a disaster, but it needed to be better
The last live BlizzCon in 2019 was not a great show, but it was fundamentally a hype festival for Blizzard just like they've all...
PSA: Star Trek Online is slashing the price of its lifetime subscription deal through December 14
If you just can't get enough of that Star Trek Online and want to get all of the exclusive perks available to lifetime subscriptions...
Massively Overthinking: Did BlizzCon do what it needed to do?
Given the last couple of years, which have been inarguably rocky for both the company and its games, Blizzard needed a big win at...
PSA: Embers Adrift is adding temporary subscription perks to all current owners of the game
Do you own a copy of Embers Adrift but still aren't sure about whether the subscription benefits added over this past summer are for...
Blizzard president confirms a focus on mobile and live service games, briefly discusses studio’s ‘new era’
The tide of change is continuing to slip its way across the shores of Blizzard, which is the general tone of a BlizzCon interview...
The 12-server ArcheAge Unchained/ArcheAge merge is still on track for November 30
Back in August, Kakao and XLGAMES announced that it would be merging ArcheAge Unchained into the regular ArcheAge production servers. The move followed Korean...
The Game Archaeologist: Firefall, an MMO tragedy about more than just a bus
Back when I first started writing for Massively and was energetic enough to go on trips to trade shows, I hit up a PAX...
Mortal Online 2 sells three-month packs as it gets ready to launch on Epic Game Store
Mortal Online 2 is preparing to take its next big step forward, as the PvP MMO has plans to launch on Epic Game Store...
Disney Dreamlight Valley gets multiplayer next month to go with its not-F2P launch
The reason that we at Massively OP have been following Disney Dreamlight Valley isn't because we're secret members of the Stitch Fan Club (well,...
Indie MMORPG Monsters & Memories says its proof of concept is 70% complete
The crew at Niche Worlds Cult took to Reddit this week to make a case for Monsters & Memories, the charming throwback MMORPG that...
Throne and Liberty ditches gacha business model for subs and passes
Does even the mere mention of a gacha system in an online game make you break out in hives? Then breathe a sigh of...
Disney Dreamlight Valley ditches free-to-play plan as it heads for a December 5 launch
If you were holding out on Disney Dreamlight Valley's early access period to wait for the promised free-to-play launch edition, then we're sorry to...
