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Star Anvil opens $50K Kickstarter for its third Secret World tabletop RPG
No, Funcom hasn't made any big moves on The Secret World MMORPG franchise lately and didn't even rouse itself to celebrate the game's 12th...
Jonathan Del Arco helms Star Trek Online’s 33rd season, Unveiled, launching February 11
Everyone's worried about the future of Cryptic's MMOs post-Cryptic, including us, but Star Trek Online is forging onward into 2025 with the promise of...
Star Trek Online kicks off the 2025 event campaign with its No-Win Scenario
Despite the name of the event being No-Win Scenario, there is actually a win condition for Star Trek Online players participating in its event...
The MOP Up: RIFT gets some surprising API improvements
Already we're checking off the "something positive happens for RIFT" square in our 2025 bingo card, as Gamigo's team invested some time improving the...
Star Trek Online reactivates its Feast event for consoles, gives a T6 ship to PC players
Getting invited to a feast is almost always welcome -- unless you yourself are the main dish and aren't even getting tipped for delivery...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025
I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
Star Trek Online artist Taco officially departs Cryptic Studios after nearly 20 years
It's going to be really, really hard to fill the void that 20 years' worth of knowledge developing Star Trek Online creates, but that's...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online surprises fans with Spacedock revamp
Star Trek Online delivered a small surprise this past week with visual improvements to its iconic Spacedock: "In essence, we’re replacing the exterior System...
The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?
So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...
Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024
This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...
Star Trek Online will engage every single Red Alert event at once on December 31
Generally, a ship entering red alert in Star Trek is a semi-rare occurrence, signaling that things are getting a bit more tense and dangerous....
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Victory is Life and wrapping my head around a new ship in Star Trek Online
Well, this final Choose My Adventure for this year has certainly been a journey. For a couple of reasons. First, I've gotten through the...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO with the Stormiest Future
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the MMO with the Stormiest Future, which was awarded to Pantheon: Rise of...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Neverwinter’s seasonal Simril’s Winter Festival returns with old and new rewards
While it might be hard to get into a festive mood given the studio-ending layoffs at Cryptic Studios and financial woes for megacorp owner...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
