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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...
Medieval MMO Anvil Empires shows off UI and environment improvements
If you live in the medieval era and someone came up to you asking for the time, how would you respond? Well, if you're...
Overwatch 2 confirms hero balancing and more features for Stadium mode all the way to ‘Season 19 and beyond’
People seem to really like Overwatch 2's Stadium mode - and that includes MOP's own Tyler. That substantial boost in popularity has very obviously...
Sci-fi voxel sandbox Cubic Odyssey scales back its ambitious design for its May 14 launch
With a demo on the market, over 100,000 wishlists so far, and a 2025 release window in view, Gaijin's Cubic Odyssey is hoping to...
A YouTuber chronicles his 30-day journey to find players and throw a party in ‘dead’ social MMO There
"Ded gaem!" You've likely seen that truly biting piece of wit and cleverness in MMORPG discussions before (that's sarcasm, for the record). But what...
World of Warcraft promises its upcoming housing will offer decor from every possible gameplay source
The slow drip feed of details for World of Warcraft's upcoming housing system continues. Following a post about how decorations are placed, this past...
Elder Scrolls Online’s player response options upgrade re-injects roleplaying into quest convos
ZeniMax Online Studios has a new dev blog up this afternoon all about Elder Scrolls Online's new player response options system. In fact, if...
RuneScape Dragonwilds sees high Steam numbers as Jagex tells its devs to touch grass
The release week for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, the survival sandbox from Jagex that surprise launched into early access, has been an understandably busy one as...
Sci-fi sandbox SpaceCraft confirms multiplayer focus, offers vague closed alpha plans
Last December we were all introduced to SpaceCraft, a sci-fi sandbox about building, exploration, and eventually growing an interstellar trading empire with - or...
Overwatch 2 deep-dives the new Stadium mode arriving with Season 16 on April 22
While there are already lots of team vs. team fights to be had in Overwatch 2, none of them is in a more structured...
Global MapleStory is bringing back its OG lead dev for Classic MapleStory
From our vantage point, the splitting of Global MapleStory from its Korean version a year ago has been more than a success, with multiple...
