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Open beta MMORTS Starborne announces Dissidence expansion with new map, mode, and historical servers
Icelandic developer Solid Clouds announced something this week for Starborne that most MMO betas never see: an expansion. It's called Dissidence, and it's promising...
Not So Massively roundup: Iron Harvest, Second Extinction, Valorant, Paladins, Wolf Team, The Cycle, and New Frontier
Welcome back to a quick roundup of recent news from some not-so-massively online multiplayer titles.
Wolf Team: Gamigo's MMOFPS introduced a new map last week...
PWE is delaying Magic Legends’ launch to spring 2021
Back in January, PWE announced that Magic Legends, no longer an MMO, would launch for PC in 2020, with console releases to follow in...
Not So Massively Roundup: Destiny 2, Spellbreak, Vigor, Valorant, Frostpoint, Shadow Arena, and PUBG’s BLACKPINK collab
Welcome to a quick roundup of some news from the Not-So-Massively world!
Destiny 2: Bungie posted a trailer and a detailed dev blog on Destiny...
Kickstarted MMO Fractured lowers price of entry, rearranges alpha and beta schedule
Dynamight Studios' latest dev blog has some big changes for Fractured and its fans, starting with the news that the game's price is coming...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s new Sunqua Peak fractal, live today
While Guild Wars 2’s Cantha-centric End of Dragons expansion may not be coming until next year, players eager to visit The Empire of the...
Fallout 76’s One Wasteland and second season arrive on September 15
Mark your calendars, because September 15th is going to be a significant date for Fallout 76. That's the day when Update 22 arrives, bringing...
New World promises gobs of new content ahead of its next test in November
As Amazon's New World winds down its late-summer preview event, the studio has a new dev blog up, admitting it's been "humbled" by the...
World of Warships celebrates five years and details planned changes to commander skills
Happy birthday to World of Warships! It's been five years since the naval multiplayer battler kicked off, and the folks at Wargaming are marking...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Breaking down Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons expansion teaser trailer
Last, after a lot of build-up, during a stream dedicated to the 8th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet finally released...
MMORTS Starborne’s first beta dev blog enters the Dead Zone
Starborne may well be a rising star in the MMORTS genre, causing at least one of our number here at Massively OP to become...
Meat Week returns to Fallout 76 ahead of wood week
Literally every time Meat Week comes around in Fallout 76, I start snickering like a child, and I'm not even sorry. Yep, it's back...
CIG basically just released a preview of Squadron 42’s roadmap progress
OK, OK, you can put your pitchforks down - or maybe just set them to the side for a while as you read the...
SMITE introduces the Japanese moon god Tsukuyomi in the latest update
Yesterday has seen the moon shine over SMITE as the Japanese moon god Tsukuyomi has officially landed to the game. This new character is...
Flameseeker Chronicles: How Guild Wars 2 can improve underwater combat
Way back in the lead up to Guild Wars 2’s launch in 2012, I remember the community being all abuzz about the addition of...
Anthem discusses the design goals for getting loot and gearing up in the rebooted version of the shooter
BioWare Austin studio director Christian Dailey promised in his last preview of the Anthem reboot that a new dev blog would be coming soon,...
Rumor: Halo Infinite leak suggests a free-to-play multiplayer experience
So, who had Halo goes free-to-play on the summer 2020 bingo card? OK, not really, but a leak circulating on the internet today suggests...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First Impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Jormag Rising, live today
Just two short months ago, Guild Wars 2 introduced us to the Drizzlewood Coast, flashpoint of the civil war between the Charr United Legions...
Wanna feel old? Here’s what Path of Exile looked like over a decade ago
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the first introduction of Path of Exile to the public, Grinding Gear Games has posted a "then and...
Concept art pieces for the Anthem reboot show off new locations and classically-styled pirates
All we've heard about the upcoming reboot to multiplayer robo-suit shooter Anthem is that it's going to take some time to get done. Since...