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The Stream Team: A magical 12th birthday for Wizard101, complete with gifts
Being 12 years old is magical, especially if you're Wizard101! This cheery game filled with fun pets and mounts is celebrating its 12th anniversary...
Japanese survivalbox Craftopia is set to launch early access on Friday
All summer, we've been keeping watch over Craftopia, a Japanese multiplayer "open world survival crafting game," and I think it would be fair to...
First impressions: New World has the foundation of what could be a great game
Like a lot of people, I've been hotly anticipating Amazon's New World, one of the first truly big name new MMOs we've seen in...
One Shots: Chilla with my gorilla
It's always a parade of fluffy, furry, and feathery friends when One Shots asks readers to share their favorite pets, and today is no...
Global Chat: Is MMO crafting obsolete?
Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we intentionally avoid
A few weeks back, I read a Twitter thread about people who avoid specific games and types of games, and the folks chiming in...
Monster Hunter World is coming to a tabletop near you with an in-development board game
Tabletop game developer Steamforged Games is seeking to condense the sensation of playing Monster Hunter World into board game form with the perfectly named...
RuneScape introduces a traveling artisan and begins taking nominations for the Golden Gnomes awards
This week in RuneScape we have traveling artisans, some Golden Gnomes, and a couple of little fixes to share. It's just another Monday for...
Fight or Kite: Early thoughts on Crowfall’s lively beta, necromancy, and alts
Anyone who’s been following Crowfall over the years since its original Kickstarter has likely at one point or another felt like the game’s development...
Jukebox Heroes: Great tunes from Destiny’s first soundtrack
Is there any MMO soundtrack that arrived with such incredible expectations and baggage as Destiny? If so, I can't recall it. We have not...
The Stream Team: Vanquishing the Voidrakar assaulting AQ3D’s DragonWatch Village
So much has happened in AQ3D in the short time Massively OP's MJ has been away from her computer. And while she's not about...
Massively Overthinking: Mixing and matching the best crafting systems in the MMO ‘verse
Longtime MOP reader Ken from Chicago recently asked us to talk about crafting - but he didn't want us to just list off the...
Astroneer’s second big automation update is live – here’s the new trailer
If you had asked me a year ago what game my whole family would be playing together this summer, I probably would not have...
Starbase previews fleet PvP tourney video, works on player progression and exploration design
It's been months since we checked in on Starbase directly rather in our weekly roundup, so we're going to do just that today and...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s Reflections in Crystal content
All right, this format worked well last time; let's go for it again and talk about Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch. But to start...
The Daily Grind: What borky system in your favorite MMO needs some love?
A few weeks back, a new SWG Legends chef was chatting me up on Discord, asking what were frankly very reasonable questions about some...
Atlas adds Warehouses to store all of your Farmhouse resources
Picture this: A pirate in full piratical garb is marching across a sandy beach with armfuls of wheat, slipping along the sand as he...
Into the Super-verse: Early impressions of Valiance Online
When I heard that Valiance Online was going to be running an open beta this week to coincide with the PlayNYC convention, I knew...
Path of Exile confirms that Harvest mechanics will not be coming to the base game… at least not yet
The current limited-time challenge league in Path of Exile seems to be rather popular with its more deterministic approach to crafting, so it definitely...
Albion Online’s Rise of Avalon is live with its unique new (and deadly!) roads network
Albion Online's long-awaited Rise of Avalon update is live for all players today, and I promise I won't make the joke about not needing...
