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Monsters & Memories dates its next open playtest for April 11, firms up its early access launch plans
Monsters & Memories has had open test weekends a few times along its development track, so hearing about a new one isn't necessarily a...
Stars Reach’s Kickstarter broke half a million dollars already, deep-dives the fishy princess Hansian species
Less than a week into its whirlwind Kickstarter - remember, we didn't even know there'd be a Kickstarter two months ago! - Stars Reach...
RuneFest 2025: RuneScape gets Leagues and new profession level caps in 2025, new vampiric region in 2026
Are you ready to deal with vampires in RuneScape? You'd better be because the major reveal from this year's returning RuneFest event is the...
The Stream Team: The great crashed ship salvaging operation in Planet Crafter
Last time Massively OP's MJ was in Planet Crafter, she discovered a very large crashed ship while zooming about enjoying her new vehicle. That...
Techrot Encore rocks Warframe 1999 with new music, protoframes, a pub, and a sentient guitar on March 19
Do Warframe players need more reasons to head back to Warframe 1999? Not necessarily (although where else can you hang out at a '90s...
WoW Factor: Six player-created challenges to spice up your World of Warcraft leveling
It seems almost impossible to play video games for extended periods of time and not fall into some sort of rut or routine. We...
Stars Reach Kickstarter hits $450K, unlocks crafting appearance customization as devs say headstart isn’t P2W
As the Stars Reach Kickstarter nears half a million dollars, the Playable Worlds team is using Kickstarter memos to further explain how the game's...
Life is Feudal Arden, the F2P second resurrection of the medieval MMO, enters open beta on Steam
If you get a second chance to make a first impression but that second chance makes the exact same impression as the first, did...
Elder Scrolls Online showcases the ‘cosmetic facelift’ for starting zones coming in update 45
Yes, we know that the Fallen Banners DLC and update 45 have been on the Elder Scrolls Online servers for over a month already,...
Grimrain is an indie MMORPG focused on co-op and alt friendliness headed for early access in late 2025
The wilds of Steam early access are seeing yet another indie MMORPG emerge. Today we're focusing on Grimrain, an indie effort from BecauseMonsters that...
MMO You’ve Never Heard Of: Cloudheim, Key to Heaven, Outlawed
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles that you have probably never heard of. Well, some of you have heard...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Luckcatchers 2, Storebound, Might of Spells
Welcome back to a roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've (very likely) never heard of. If you have, then pat yourself on the...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen continues crushing bugs in latest patch and updates its bug reporting methods
This week has introduced another fix and adjustment-focused patch for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen as the sandbox MMORPG continues to iron out its...
Pax Dei outlines its building revamp with an eye toward accessibility and consistency
Mainframe's sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei is back with yet another Discord dev blog today, this one homing in on homes - well, more specifically,...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s housing design is exactly what we need
I haven't weighed in on this tiny little insignificant World of Warcraft housing news since it dropped last November, mostly because I've been waiting to...
Legacy Steel & Sorcery, an extraction-focused ‘mini MMORPG’ from former WoW devs, just hit early access
As promised, extraction RPG Legacy Steel & Sorcery is officially hitting early access today, and it's one we've paid a bit more attention to...
Working As Intended: Playing house – er, apartment – in SWG Legends
This week, I'm starting up a new miniseries called Playing House here in the Working As Intended column, and it's entirely the fault of...
Quinfall’s roadmap promises party finder, combat and crafting revamps, and more PvP
What's next for sandbox MMORPG The Quinfall in 2025? That question has been given a general answer in a Discord message from Vawraek Technologies,...
‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars Reach is hoping for ‘a few hundred thousand players’
Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
