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The Daily Grind: Is the MMO genre thriving in scarcity?
I want to talk about the MMO genre in the meta sense for a sec this morning. Every time I see another game pivot...
Richard Garriott’s NFT MMO has a website and a name: Iron and Magic
You may remember that space tourist Richard Garriott, fresh off the utter collapse of Shroud of the Avatar, had threatened us all with another...
Crime life sim MMO Identity finally breaks radio silence with funding and development updates
You'd be forgiven for having completely forgotten about Identity, the ambitious life of crime simulation MMO that's made some big promises but ultimately saw...
Kritika Global’s latest update grants players one free character slot and adds a new character
Kritika Global, the action MMO that came back as a P2E zombie version of its former self and then shambled back to Steam without...
NCsoft Q2 2022: Throne and Liberty delayed to 2023, Aion 2 in dev, Guild Wars 2 booming
If you were skeptical about NCsoft's Q1 financial report and its confidence about still managing to get Throne and Liberty out the door in...
Bless Unleashed celebrates its one-year anniversary while ignoring its play-to-earn announcement
It's been a year since Bless Unleashed returned to PC players, and developer Valofe has been celebrating through the month of August with a...
Vague Patch Notes: No, Little Orbit has not solved the MMO blockchain problem
It looks like we have indeed lived long enough to see the heroes become the villains: Little Orbit, which we once lionized for saving...
Little Orbit talks APB Reloaded’s 64-bit update and new blockchain online shooter STFU
Little Orbit is getting quite chatty these days, which certainly benefits All Points Bulletin: Reloaded desperate to hear about the future of their title....
Legends of Aria’s new blockchain owners are trying to sell $70 random P2W characters
The hits keep coming for Legends of Aria, and we don't mean the greatest hits compilation kind.
We regret to remind you that Aria, which...
Axie Infinity CEO caught shuffling $3M in the game’s crypto tokens before announcing its $620M hack
No matter how decentralized cryptocurrencies claim to be, there's always going to be a paper trail to follow, and one such trail was left...
Voxelbox MMO Elteria Adventures goes pay-to-earn while promising a ‘true synergetic experience’
If the name Elteria Adventures isn't quite striking familiar to you, allow us a brief moment to recap: This sandbox MMO, which brought to...
Kritika Global returns to Steam without P2E but with cash shop awfulness
Before we get to that headline, this story needs a bit of a refresher course: Kritika Online was an anime-styled action MMO that first...
Riders of Icarus’ play-to-earn crypto token is down to about ten cents of value
So, how is play-to-earn going for Riders of Icarus? Well, about as well as play-to-earn usually goes, which is to say very badly. MMO...
The MOP Up: Astroneer’s trains chug-a-choo-choo onto the Switch
Trains in space? Hey, why not! Astroneer brought the fun of high-tech rail transport to the Nintendo Switch this past week: "Enjoy building rail...
Square-Enix finally makes good on its threat of selling NFTs with NFT-linked action figures
You may have thought that after seeing NFT prices crash along with cryptocurrency prices crashing, Square-Enix would have backed down from its inane blather...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO gamers just frogs in a boiling cookpot?
Longtime MOP reader Miol recently wrote us a long email inspired by a non-MMO stream he'd been watching during which the streamer went off...
Raph Koster talks about the ‘mission’ of Playable Worlds, his vision of the metaverse, and player ownership
Raph Koster is no stranger to talking about the concept of the metaverse - he's done it a couple of times already, trying to...
Microsoft-owned Minecraft bans NFT and blockchain implementations over exclusivity, unreliability, and fraud
If you can't see the writing on the wall when it comes to blockchain shenanigans, you should probably get your eyesight checked out because...
MMO Business Roundup: Blizzard Albany’s union, BioWare Pride, Sony’s antitrust lawsuit, and the P2E ‘hustle’
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Activision-Blizzard: Another group of QA testers within Activision-Blizzard have announced they're...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 381: The Soulframe of the game
Justin and Bree discuss Warframe's new sibling Soulframe, Guild Wars 2's summer roadmap, LOTRO's producer's departure, SWTOR's creative director's departure, and WoW's Dragonflight alpha, with adventures in City of Heroes, RIFT, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on truly non-instanced open world design.
