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Monster Hunter: World devs discuss Iceborne development as the game’s first beta test draws near
It won't be long now until hunters will be able to get their first taste of Monster Hunter: World's upcoming Iceborne expansion, with the...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: World of Dragon Nest, Echo of Soul RED, and Dawn of Isles
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!).
First up:...
The ArcheAge consumer lawsuit against Trion Worlds is still inching onward
It seems weird to be writing about Trion Worlds again, but here we are. MMO players will recall that back in 2015, three gamers...
Desert Oasis: Comparing Black Desert and Blade & Soul’s design philosophies
One of my favorite MMO stories is how I got into Black Desert in the first place. It was right after I tried out...
The MOP Up: China’s getting Fallout Shelter Online, and that’s not fair
For my money (and time), the best Fallout game of the past five years has been Fallout Shelter, a mobile base builder which has...
The Game Archaeologist: 1998’s Mankind
In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games....
The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two
Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...
Path of Exile’s blast-from-the-past Legion League revamps melee and crushes complexity creep on June 7
It's time once again to learn about the next big update for Grinding Gear Games' popular MMOARPG, which will launch for the PC on June 7th, 2019, and hit both consoles on June 10th. I enjoyed sitting down with Producer Chris Wilson to learn the ins and outs of expansion 3.7.0, titled Legion.
The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs?
With big name survival games getting ignored developmentally, you have to wonder what's been going on with the smaller titles. After all, we've got...
Nexon’s huge first quarter financials made EA and Blizzard look downright shabby
While EA and Activision-Blizzard reported truly meh first quarter 2019 earnings, Nexon was out there making the case for why somebody ought to pay...
Tencent gives up on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds being approved in China
Tencent has been waiting a long time to release PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in China. For more than a year, the game has been in "testing" whilst waiting...
EA sees quarterly and yearly revenue dropoffs, plans to port Apex Legends to mobile
Activision-Blizzard wasn't the only company to see a weak start to 2019: EA also saw a drop off in revenue for Q1 2019, with...
Academics argue WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification could cost South Korea billions
Over the last couple of years, we've been covering the science behind gaming addiction and more specifically the World Health Organization's attempt to insert...
Meta: A heartfelt farewell to MMO Fallout
Anybody who's been watching MMOs long enough knows MMO Fallout: It's been a staple MMO website for the last decade, perhaps known best for...
Tales of Wind is a bizarre and adorable MMORPG sandbox for your phone
Tales of Wind hit our radar back in February thanks chiefly to this image of a giant adorable cat-bunny-thing. I want one. It's a...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Cloak of the Vine in honor of Undermountain’s PC launch!
To celebrate the launch of Undermountain for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 100 cloak keys to give away to our readers! The Cloak of...
PUBG Corp. is suing over the Chinese term for Chicken Dinner as Update 28 goes live
PUBG Corp. is back in court, and this time it's suing not another game company or clone but the Chinese bureaucracy itself.
As MMO Culture...
China reveals new regulatory system for online video games after more than a year of confusion
For the last year and change, we watched in slowly dawning horror during China's big game "freeze," when bureaucrats shut down avenues for game...
CCP Games thinks EVE Online is about to make it big in China and Korea
We've previously covered CCP Games' Hilmar Petersson's comments on not giving up after all EVE Online's unsuccessful spinoffs, including most recently Project Nova. But...
Lost Ark job postings hint at mobile version and upgraded engine
Want to get your hands on Lost Ark? So do we, but all we can do for the time being is sit on our...
