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Choose My Adventure: The quest for big punchy gloves in Albion Online
I don’t know whether I was just hungry for a positive experience after last month’s series, I came to this game with a newfound...
Embers Adrift recaps updates made to the beta over the course of March
There are a few things one tends to expect out of an open development MMORPG, and one of those things is a monthly report...
The Daily Grind: How important is an MMO’s crafting to you?
Crafting is in an interesting place with MMOs, because it tends to be something people have opinions on regardless on how invested they really...
Osiris New Dawn adds multiplayer vehicles and improved travel in the Voyager update
Exploring the survival sandbox worlds of Osiris: New Dawn is inevitably going to involve travel, but as of the newly released Voyager update, that...
Interview: Scoping out Fractured Online’s closed beta content and update plans
By the time you're reading this, Fractured Online has already begun its closed beta phase, but before then I was granted the opportunity to...
EverQuest II’s GU 119 Coffers and Coffins launches April 12, with a new TLE server coming in May
In its roadmap update for EverQuest II today, Daybreak substudio Darkpaw Games announced the game's next patch: Coffers and Coffins, launching into beta today...
Crowfall’s latest patch adds significant dev config for next week’s Wolfe campaign
Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall has been through kind of a lot in its short life. Having launched last summer, the RvR game suffered from a...
The Wagadu Chronicles highlights the various features of its alpha build in a new trailer
While words and images can help create a vision of what an MMO's alpha build looks like, video showing of the game can very...
Closers makes adjustments to Cubes and the Chip system in latest update
While Cubes and Chips might sound like an excellent retro-style new wave band name, what they are in the context of the action MMO...
GDC 2022: How ‘game stressors’ mix and match for repeatable content development in MMOs
Continuing our GDC 2022Â coverage of Bungie Principal Technical Game Designer Alan Blaine's talk on building challenges and reusable content in Destiny 2, we're going...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s open world is not the place for hardcore content
If you're paying any attention to Guild Wars 2, you have, by now, no doubt heard the debate over the Battle for the Jade...
GDC 2022: Learning from the seven game stressors in Destiny 2
GDC 2022 coverage has a bit slow this year thanks to virtual tickets being kind of a misnomer (if the panel isn't live and...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 33 and Ascending Tide launch for console today
Console players are girding themselves for battle with the release of Elder Scrolls Online Update 33 and Ascending Tide DLC today, though we're not...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s slow march to redemption
In the rushes of excitement over Lost Ark and End of Dragons, New World seems to have fallen off the radar a bit. As...
Massively Overthinking: How long should MMO expansions be?
Star Wars The Old Republic's Legacy of the Sith struggled for many reasons, but the one I've seen echoed over and over is that...
Crowfall promises shorter and more intense Dregs campaigns and a long-term roadmap in the future
There are still things being done in Crowfall. We examined where the PvP MMO sits this past February after developer ArtCraft sold the game...
Perfect Ten: Obnoxious MMO buzzwords found in press releases
So say that you write for MassivelyOP. Or say that you work for another news site while wistfully refreshing MassivelyOP's front page hoping to...
Ultima Online gets Spring Fever while New Legacy shard work continues
Anticipation is building for Ultima Online's newest initiative, a throwback shard (of a sort) called New Legacy. While New Legacy isn't here yet, Broadsword...
PlanetSide 2 begins public testing of its massive Arsenal Update
PlanetSide 2 is getting a huge Arsenal Update, and it's so big the devs at Daybreak's Rogue Planet Games are eager to show it...
The Daily Grind: What are the best MMOs for weird schedules?
I have a lot of reasons for playing SWG Legends: its crafting is unbeatable and its housing is still good, and also it's the...
