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Corepunk proposes its 500,000 test hopefuls comment for a chance at 10,000 alpha 2 invites
If you thought you were signed up for the Corepunk beta, you might have a little more legwork to do to ensure you actually...
Amazon Games opens new studio in Romania to support ‘ambitious long-term roadmap’
As large parts of the games industry contract, Amazon Games is buying the dip and expanding with a new game dev studio in Bucharest,...
New World hosts a community-themed event to bide time until June’s big reveal
If you've gotten past your grudge against New World for bleeping its secret plan reveal, the fantasy MMO actually is running a neat little...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are more about PvE than PvM?
We don't talk about PvM vs. PvE all that much in the MMORPG genre, but we should. Maybe we like a PvE vs. PvP...
Embers Adrift discusses quest design, player feedback on trade systems
Embers Adrift is talking questing and player trading this week, as the MMORPG's recent developer stream brings in one of its quest makers to...
Victorian survivalbox Nightingale adds its offline mode this week
From our perspective here at MOP, generally we like to see online RPGs evolve toward becoming expansive MMOs over time. However, once promising Victorian...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best desert biome in MMOs?
Until I lived in one for a few years in real life, I was not a big fan of the desert - anywhere. Cue...
One Shots: Hell’s welcoming committee
One Shot announcement time, everybody! Gather around, shush up, listen.
I am not a mind reader. I do not have one of those NCIS computers...
LOTRO Legendarium: Moria, Gundabad, and LOTRO’s lessons on underground design
In late 2008, Lord of the Rings Online released its first and highly touted expansion, Mines of Moria, featuring the iconic Dwarven underground kingdom...
WRUP: Rejected lyrics to Salt-N-Pepa’s hit 1993 song ‘What a Man’ edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about binge-watching TV.
The Daily Grind: Are you excited for Tarisland to release?
Our recent story about Tarisland having its release date currently sitting somewhere in the nebulous Shadow Zone reminded me that the game existed, which...
Lost Skies checks in with progress on island assets, a healing drone, and an autumnal region
It's time once again for Bossa Studios' Lost Skies to put forth its usual monthly progress report -- its 20th so far -- that...
Beloved Dungeons and Dragons Online dev Quentin Cantor leaves SSG
The word is starting to get around that Dungeons and Dragons Online recently saw one of its beloved developers depart Standing Stone Games. Quentin...
The Daily Grind: What is the ‘gold standard’ example of MMORPGs?
Earlier this year, a poster on the MMORPG subreddit posted a controversial take: While admitting that he hadn't actually played EVE Online in a...
Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix speed-leveling event is live this afternoon
As we alluded to in this morning's Daily Grind, today is the day for World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria remix hullabaloo, so if...
Palia studio Singularity 6 has been slammed with yet another layoff round
Singularity 6, the studio behind beta cozy MMO Palia, is dealing with yet another round of layoffs this week, following a round back in...
The Daily Grind: What are your plans for World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix?
I confess that I've gone from being a little taken aback at the idea of World of Warcraft's Pandaria Remix to a huge fan...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs as fast food joints
Sometimes you go out to eat because you want something that's difficult to make on your own or just involves techniques you are unfamiliar...
The Daily Grind: Do you still have any launch day characters in your MMOs?
One of the reasons that I always like going back to Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's the only MMO that I...
