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One Shots: Dawntrail, ho!
Memories of a brutal 48-hour downtime for Final Fantasy XIV are fading into distant memory as the playerbase basks on the shores of Dawntrail....
Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2
It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...
Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?
Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....
Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs
A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
EverQuest makes its nearly three year-old Terror of Luclin expansion free for everyone
When is something old new again? When it's handed out for free, of course. Those who didn't bother to buy in to EverQuest's Terror...
The EverQuest Online Adventures Revival server is pushing onward toward a public release
EverQuest II's Anashti Sul server isn't the only EverQuest - or EverQuest throwback - making waves right now, as an MOP tipster reminded us...
EverQuest II’s Anashti Sul progression server is live with its 2006 throwback vibes
As promised and foretold, EverQuest II has a new toy as of last night, as its new progression server - the Origins server dubbed...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 473: How do you define an MMO?
Justin and Bree discuss EVE Online Equinox, EverQuest and EverQuest II expansions and progression servers, New World Aeternum, and Wayfinder's relaunch, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, WoW, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on balancing news coverage, Once Human, and defining MMOs.
The MOP Up: Temtem goes neon as it spins down development
Temtem's Patch 1.7 arrived with the start of its Neon Reverie season, the game's last as development starts to spin down: "To close it...
Fippyfest 2024: EverQuest and EverQuest II reveal 2024 expansions, Anashti Sul Origins progression server opens June 19
The celebration of all things EverQuest and EverQuest II that is Fippy Fest 2024 has come to a close, but not without a gaggle...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
New World’s new Q&A struggles to explain why a massively multiplayer online RPG isn’t an MMORPG
Amazon's New World Aeternum announcement last Friday did not go to plan, unless getting reviewbombed to oblivion by PC players and confusing mainstream gaming...
Pride Month celebrations begin in DC Universe Online, EverQuest, City of Heroes, and more MMOs
The month of June is Pride Month around the world, and that means that multiple MMORPGs and multiplayer games are going to be celebrating...
The MOP Up: My Time at Sandrock will make you a proper Monster Whisperer
To start off our small news roundup this weekend, let's head over to co-op farm sim My Time at Sandrock, where the devs talked about...
The Game Archaeologist: Runes of Magic, an MMO that made millions disappear
In more ways than one, the year 2004 was a pivotal one for the MMORPG community. Even as games like City of Heroes, EverQuest...
EverQuest launches Teek and Tormax, a new pair of time-locked expansion servers for subscribers
The O.G. EverQuest is at it again, as the classic MMO launched a pair of highly anticipated new time-locked progression (TLP) shards this week...
The MOP Up: Stardew Valley’s creator can’t quit tinkering with the game
Stardew Valley's creator recently sat down for an interview in which he said, “Once I reopen the book on Stardew, I always have a...
EverQuest is running a TLP free play weekend in advance of next week’s new servers
One of the most popular activities in EverQuest's sphere is taking part in the classic MMO's time-locked progression (TLP) servers. Unfortunately, these special ruleset...
Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
EG7 Q1 2024: Daybreak still mum on PlanetSide 2, new H1Z1 game hires lead designer
It's not even been two weeks since Daybreak owner EG7 published its 2023 annual financial report, which of course omitted everything relevant that happened...
