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Overwatch 2 talks balance tweaks including nerfs to Freja and a slightly ensmallened Bastion
Balancing in a competitive shooter like Overwatch 2 can often feel like less of a tightrope walk and more like attempting to tap dance...
Nightingale dev studio resurfaces with word of dedicated servers and ‘finding the right path forward’
Just yesterday morning, we wondered aloud whatever happened to Nightingale, finding that there had been complete radio silence from developer Inflexion Games across social...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street defends building an MMO: ‘When they work, it’s magic’
It's slightly sad that in this day and age, a game studio feels that it needs to defend why it's pouring efforts into crafting...
Overwatch 2 promises ‘groundskeeper’ updates to existing content in Seasons 17 and 18
A game like Overwatch 2 having lots of new things added on can frequently cause players to worry that existing features will be ignored...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s perception system expands with the Ashbreather zone this week
Apparently, characters in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will not be very perceptive until they're at around level 35 or so. That's the conclusion...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street shares frustrations with the pace and priorities of ‘big American game studios’
It's no secret that Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has some Opinions™ about the gaming industry, especially since his years of experience has led him to...
Star Citizen recounts efforts on AI and gameplay as alpha 4.2 looms and players grumble over PvP
It's time for yet another look back at the month that was in Star Citizen's development. That's right, it's monthly report time for the...
Kickstarted superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off its animation and FX overhaul
Ship of Heroes is still zooming along toward a release this season, and ahead of what we assume will be a hard date announcement...
Mortal Online 2 delays adding ‘new AI technology’ to Reckoning update over hardware delivery issues
Apparently some sorta newfangled tek-naw-lo-gee requiring some highfalutin' hardware isn't going to happen for Mortal Online 2's upcoming Reckoning update. That's basically the explanation...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Previewing Guild Wars 2 Absolution’s Bava Nisos map and Kinfall fractal
It still seems strange that we are already coming to the end of another Guild Wars 2 expansion cycle, and yet here we are....
Amazon is experimenting with adding ‘rough edges’ to the New World PvP experience
As part of its preview of New World's upcoming hardcore seasonal world, Amazon has sent along a new Q&A-style dev blog explaining the studio's...
Pax Dei elaborates on recently showcased stat and item additions coming in Verse 3
Apparently players of Pax Dei had some thoughts and questions after Mainframe Industries dished about new gear and related stat updates coming in the...
New World previews its upcoming hardcore seasonal world with its accessible permadeath-ish mechanics
While New World's eighth season - Season of the Divide - has already been live for a couple of weeks, but as we pointed...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen highlights the creation of its upcoming Ashbreathers content
We appreciate a good portmanteau here at MOP, so when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen summoned the word "dreamare" to describe its upcoming new...
MMO Hype Train: Is it time to light a fire under Light No Fire?
What earns an MMO a spot in your own Top 5 Most Anticipated Games list? There's a lot of factors to consider: personal preferences,...
Cozy multiplayer farming sim Lightyear Frontier promises a change to narrative, not a complete removal of it
It's been a little while since the cozy mech-based multiplayer farming sim Lightyear Frontier popped on our radar. As a reminder, this early access...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Solstice Isle promises a tropical paradise and a ‘wild carnival’
It's hard to believe we're already a week and change away from the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online's Seasons of the Worm Cult...
Fractured Online’s new owners are tinkering with everything from crafting to housing in their revamp
As Fractured Online prepares to go offline for the rest of the year and then some under its new ownership with big plans for...
Valheim continues its Deep North teases with more video and screenshots
The developers of Valheim have elected to stop calling their dev blogs "dev blogs"; they're a Word from the Devs instead, owing to the...
Funcom recaps the Dune Awakening beta, promises more comms ahead of release
The beta weekend for Dune: Awakening is now over (as is hearing about it for nearly as long), so now it's a matter of...
