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CCP Games walks back EVE Online’s bargegate fiasco, plans ship packs ‘made for new players, by veterans’
The past few days have seen many EVE Online players up in arms over the sale of a mining barge bundle that CCP Games...
LOTRO is making tons of expansion content permanently free, adding a new Hobbit zone
Hey, do you like free stuff? Lord of the Rings Online's March 2022 producer letter has arrived, and it's promising tons of free stuff...
NCsoft is reimagining Lineage Eternal as Throne and Liberty with a new IP and look
Don't look now, but NCsoft is pivoting hard away from the Lineage brand: It's just reintroduced Lineage III aka Lineage Eternal aka Project The...
WoW Factor: No one is attacking you for liking World of Warcraft
Let's just go ahead and give away the conclusion of this article right in the first line: There is no grand conspiracy of people...
Perfect Ten: World of Warcraft’s array of bear-based threats
Hey, if you've never played World of Warcraft, there's something you should know: This is a game with a lot of bears. You might not...
Interview: Mortal Online 2’s CEO on launch, the playerbase, tech, and the future of the sandbox
Mortal Online 2 was one of multiple MMOs to launch in the first few months of 2022, and it began life with the best...
The Soapbox: SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith is bad, but not for the reasons you’ve heard
I've never been a big Star Wars fan, but I am a big BioWare fan, and after many failed attempts to get into the...
Vague Patch Notes: Bro, do you even play your MMO?
So Guild Wars 2 had some problems with the process to unlock its siege turtle mount. As launched, it required players to take part in...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s next expansion needs to restore faith in the game
It's the next World of Warcraft expansion! Except it isn't. But it's the announcement of the date on which that will be announced! In a...
Elite Dangerous has fully canceled console development to prioritize PC
We're sorry to report this morning that Frontier has just announced that it will be canceling console development of Elite Dangerous, essentially sending the...
EVE Online player reps to CCP on the mining barge fiasco: ‘Please stop this sale and don’t do it again’
Yesterday, we covered CCP Games' controversial implementation of a pay-to-win Prospector Pack in EVE Online. The $24.99 bundle includes a "ready-to-fly" mining barge that...
Interview: Talking Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ soundtrack with lead composer Maclaine Diemer
Maclaine Diemer is the long-time lead composer for Guild Wars 2, with soundtrack credits going as far back as the very first Living World...
First Impressions: Babylon’s Fall is an unpolished and underwhelming collection of almost good ideas
I'll be perfectly honest: Babylon's Fall was almost never on my radar. A packed few weeks of MMO and multiplayer releases pretty much saw...
Choose My Adventure: The Secret World proves to be a familiar yet lonesome place
It has been a very long time, old friend. Yet still, here you are, simply existing. Nesting in silence. Disassociated, forgotten, but still just...
World of Warcraft promises to reveal its next expansion on April 19
Fans of World of Warcraft have likely been more than a little anxious for news about what the game's next expansion will be, as well...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why people bounce off Lord of the Rings Online
Any time that you are deeply invested in an MMORPG, it's perhaps one of the most disheartening and frustrating experiences to watch your friends...
Wisdom of Nym: Everything we know (so far) about Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.1
Here we are with our first live letter for the start of a new patch cycle in the bag! Are you excited? I'm excited....
Fight or Kite: Lost Ark’s PvP is a well-designed experience for Lost Ark players
Lost Ark was a game that may as well have been vaporware for so many years. It plays basically like a Diablo game, although...
Vague Patch Notes: So why do MMO developers gender lock?
Last week's Vague Patch Notes on MMO lore and its impact on design decisions produced a lot of good comments along with a smattering...
Aliens, events, and The Pitt: MassivelyOP interview with Fallout 76’s Mark Tucker
Four years into the wasteland, and Fallout 76 isn't slowing down one bit. With Bethesda committing to several updates over the course of 2022,...