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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024
For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...
ARK: Survival Ascended rolls back official servers over a new duping exploit
Just like how there was always that kid who ruined the neighborhood swimming pool by peeing in it, online games suffer when exploiters do...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
EverQuest’s Laurion’s Song, the MMORPG’s 30th expansion, brings players to a fractured inn of heroes
Releasing 30 expansions is a significant milestone for any MMORPG, and few others can claim that crown, including EverQuest, which has released the Laurion's...
Sea of Thieves talks Safer Seas launch date, holiday login goodies, and player cheese in latest video digest
The regular video newsletters out of Sea of Thieves have yet another addition, and like usual it gathers together some of the upcoming affairs...
EverQuest players are raising the alarm over an economy-crushing dupe exploit
The EverQuest community is up in arms over what's being perceived as a meager response to a major problem that has reportedly crashed...
Massively Uplifting: MMO gratitude, goodness, and giving, from Elder Scrolls Online to Guild Wars 2
Today is a big day for your belly! If you celebrate Thanksgiving, chances are you'll have/have had a table overflowing with delectable dishes today...
Fractured Online’s player city restoration is underway following malicious hack last weekend
Since this past weekend, the fledgling second early access of Fractured Online has been tarnished by the actions of a malicious hacker, who according...
Fractured Online deploys medium-sized patch with ‘urgent balance changes’
Will Fractured Online be the stealth comeback story of 2023? That remains to be seen as we've watched this battered title endure a troubled...
New World’s latest big bug allows more than five players to enter an expedition
When I decided to hop into the Amrine Excavation expedition as part of Choose My Adventure's return to New World, it turned out that...
New World’s latest update nixes restrictions on PvP alts as Amazon works on mutation bug
Early this morning, Amazon pushed out a new patch for New World - and it's likely to make alters and PvPers happier than a...
Why I Play: Five years in, Fallout 76 has become expansive, flawed, and engrossing
War might never change, but Fallout 76? That sucker has changed a whole lot since its debut five years ago.
For as long as I've...
Diablo IV trading is still suspended over that dupe exploit
As ARPGs place a premium on the importance of gear, you best believe that any such situation that sees players exploit loopholes to get...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe forester event has been pulled for the third time
Stop us if you've heard this one: Standing Stone Games has pulled the Combe Forester event from Lord of the Rings Online yet again. As...
DC Universe Online goes dark and cursed for its October update
Hope you weren't expecting sunshine and posies in DC Universe Online this month because this superhero MMORPG is all about embracing its shadowy side...
PlanetSide 2’s Halloween event, Nanite of the Living Dead, is back through October 31
Lest you think that Daybreak had forgotten about PlanetSide 2 in its mad rush for announcements and releases for its five other MMORPGs this...
EverQuest’s 30th expansion, Laurion’s Song, launches in December – with class swapping
With Lord of the Rings Online and EverQuest II both debuting new expansions this week, you had to figure EverQuest was close behind, and...
The MOP Up: Soulframe releases a soundtrack tidbit
Soulframe fans starved to hear something -- anything -- about Digital Extremes' upcoming fantasy RPG were thrown an audio morsel this week in the...
Destiny 2 shows off the new supers coming in The Final Shape and keeps fighting crafted weapon glitches
Every expansion of Destiny 2 brings new supers to the game's three classes, but since there won't be any new element in The Final...
2-D ‘MORPG’ ASTRA Knights of Veda shows off six minutes of gameplay footage in new video
The beginning of August saw another multiplayer game cross our radar in the form of ASTRA: Knights of Veda, which publisher HYBE and studio...
