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Indie hacking MMO Spycursion admits defeat on Kickstarter, but game development will continue
We've been tracking the Kickstarter for upcoming hacking MMO Spycursion for several weeks now, and it's coming down to its last two days. And...
Massively Overthinking: Designed downtime in MMORPGs
In a Daily Grind not long ago, MOP reader Armsbend said something I thought just cried out for discussion. After noting that he had...
Space MUD Starmourn adds Bounty Hunters, new zones, and more
How is it that there's a gigantic new space MMO with a dozen playable races, starship combat, exploration, trading, and even hacking on the...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Astroflux, Star Sonata, and Mankind Reborn
Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you've (probably) never heard of.
Astroflux is an interesting one that came across...
The Daily Grind: If MMOs scaled back on combat, what should fill that space?
I know that I'm not the first or the last person to accuse modern MMOs of being far to combat-centric in their design, but...
Warframe’s Operation Buried Debts, Hildryn ‘frame, and melee combat revamp are live
Digital Extremes is keeping the pressure up with Warframe's incessant content rollouts, and we are not mad about it at all. Last night, the...
Anarchy Online’s first-ever progression server, Rubi-Ka 2019, is now live
As promised, Funcom has rolled out Anarchy Online's first "fresh-start" progression server today. The studio's calling it Rubi-Ka 2019, and yes, you will need...
Red Dead Online’s testers grump over patch issues as Rockstar updates with Fool’s Gold event
During MOP's last podcast recording, Justin and I discussed Snail Games' upcoming Outlaws of the Old West survival sandbox MMO-lite, and naturally we pointed...
The Survivalist: When survival sandboxes are more MMO than actual MMORPGs
Ever since Life is Feudal announced at the end of last month its dedication to developing a deep roleplay-focused server, I haven't been able...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Hades’ Star, Cabal Mobile, Redstone, and Curse of Aros
Welcome back to another roundup of weirdo little MMOs and online games you've never heard of but probably should hear of! That's why we're...
Indie cyberespionage sandbox MMO Spycursion sneaks into Kickstarter tonight
Back at the beginning of February, we covered an unusual indie PC MMORPG called Spycursion. It's basically a cyberespionage sandbox MMO rich in "edutainment,"...
Brave the American frontier in Virtual Basement’s upcoming Outlaws of the Old West, published by Snail Games
Step aside, Red Dead Online; there's a new wild-west sandbox moseying into town -- the newly announced Outlaws of the Old West from developer...
Black Desert’s PC version rolls out the new Central Market as Xbox One edition mops up beta bugs
Economy fiends, it's your week to shine in Black Desert. That's because the game's trading system has received a major new implementation in the...
Seek memories in Path of Exile’s newly announced Synthesis league beginning March 8
Betrayal. Incursion. Prophecy. Breach. Talisman. Nemesis. Ambush. Instead of words of the day, Path of Exile has words of the league. And with so...
EVE Online changes F2P mission access to combat bots and releases its first economic report of 2019
There's been an unfortunate increase of RMT activity in New Eden recently, and in the delicate balancing act that is the in-game economy of...
The Daily Grind: What MMO could really use a true fresh start server?
We talk a lot about progression servers and vanilla servers, branches of MMOs that use different rulesets, either new or old - we even...
Indie sci-fi sandbox Prosperous Universe is rejiggering its roadmap
Prosperous Universe is probably one of the more underrated MMORPG sandboxes we've covered over the last year, chiefly because of its browser-based nature. The...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online has a gambling problem
The gambling debate has kicked off again in EVE Online, this time in response to the annual Guardian's Gala event that's currently running throughout...
Black Desert: Xbox One beta preload, market value doubling, goldseller crackdown, and Dark Rifts event
Usually Black Desert does its big drops on Wednesday, but we've already got a pile of BDO news growing that just can't wait.
For starters,...
Interview: Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss on battle royale design, metrics, cron stones, and future content
Black Desert has had a wild ride over the last year, as has its home studio, Pearl Abyss. Not only did PA pick up...
