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The Stream Team: Checking in on the now free-to-play Will to Live Online
Although development has been steady (and the game is now free-to-play), it has been a very long time since Massively OP's MJ has been...
Nine Chronicles is a ‘decentralized’ peer-to-peer blockchain MMO with open source modification features
Admittedly, that headline has a lot of techbro buzzword nonsense in it, so let's try to break down what Nine Chronicles is. At the...
Fallout 76’s next update will finally allow players to build and store multiple C.A.M.P.s
Fallout 76 just pumped out an update - and Bethesda is already looking ahead to the next one. Most notably, the studio is working...
Cubox is a blocky open-world MMORPG mixture of building, crafting, and fighting
What do you get when a game smashes together elements from Minecraft, Diablo, Tibia, and Don't Starve? You apparently get something like Cubox, at...
Final Fantasy XIV previews Delubrum Reginae, Blue Mage updates, and Skysteel Tool improvements
Patch 5.45 arrives in Final Fantasy XIV on February 2nd, and that means the game's special site for patch content has been updated with previews...
Final Fantasy XIV updates Blue Mage and Bozja in patch 5.45 on February 2
Hey, rebuilding Ishgard is all well and good, but you know what's even better? Killing stuff in Final Fantasy XIV. And the next patch for the...
Star Citizen shows off some new planet modification tools and lays out general plans for space combat
Star Citizen's weekly video series has come back online once again, and this week's episode moves from showing off yet another tool to discussing...
Massively Overthinking: Retaking Quantic’s survey to determine our ‘gamer type’
Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...
Black Desert’s PC, console, and mobile editions get a raft of Nova changes and winter events
It's Wednesday, so you know what that means! I mean, yes, it's New President day in the US. But it's also Black Desert blitz...
Craftopia promises its next major update on February 10 with a new map and new skills
Crafting things takes time in Craftopia, and that's as true of updates as it is of items within the game. But the next major...
PSA: The Elder Scrolls Online is offering a free trial of its ESO Plus subscription
If you've already bought The Elder Scrolls Online and are curious about the benefits of subscribing to the game but aren't too keen on...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 305: Restoring faith
Justin and Bree discuss Elite Dangerous' Odyssey delay, LOTRO's latest mishaps, Guild Wars 2 Power, Pirate101 and the KingsIsle sale, and FFXIV's Ishgard restoration, with a Daily Grind blitz and mailbag topics on WoW Shadowlands, seeing how the sausage is made, and lifeskill-centric MMOs.
New World’s latest alpha update touches on rapiers, food, and crafting
New World alpha testers are in for some fun this month as Amazon Games Studio is rolling out its test patch for January, and...
Mortal Online 2 updates its engine, adds bow crafting, and stops AI from screaming at people
How do you craft a bow? It's probably not as simple as bending a flexible piece of wood and linking either end of it...
Final Fantasy XIV launches the last piece of Ishgard Restoration with patch 5.41
If you've been waiting for new battle content in Final Fantasy XIV, you're going to have to keep waiting past patch 5.41. That has launched...
Starbase notes progress on new visual effects, safety measures for flimsy ships, and more
It's time for our semi-regular-but-not-really checkup on the progress of Starbase, the building-centered spaceship sandbox MMO. At the end of 2020, the devs posted...
Wandering Wraeclast: Everything you need to know about Path of Exile’s Echoes of the Atlas, launching January 15
Yesterday, Grinding Gear Games held a mini remote ExileCon of sorts to share the reveal of this month's big new Path of Exile expansion...
Final Fantasy XIV outlines plans for the final session of Ishgard Restoration ranking
Soon it will be time for Final Fantasy XIV to help rebuild Ishgard once again. In fact, the newest preview from the team implies...
Not So Massively: Drake Hollow is the wholesome survival game we need right now
I've talked in the past about liking survival mechanics in games, but not so much survival games themselves. There are a couple of reasons...
‘I saw a City in the Clouds!’: Previewing Star Wars Galaxies Legends’ Bespin expansion
There are very few MMORPGs that can plausibly compel me to sit down and log in the weekend of a big real-life move, seeing...
