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Black Desert revealed PAX East party, weekend preview stream, and latest PC update
So what are you doing at 4 a.m. EDT Saturday? Sleeping, I hope. But if not, you'll want to tune in to Black Desert's...
Old School RuneScape discusses potential mid-bosses and shares rough update timelines
Several devs of Old School RuneScape came together to answer player questions during a livestream earlier this month, but if you happened to have...
Vague Patch Notes: Why play-to-earn is a garbage idea
Good afternoon, readers. Do you remember not so long ago when I talked about the fact that MMOs are perfectly fine as just games...
Multiplayer farming sim Farm Together just launched its first DLC in over two years
Back in 2021, I became briefly obsessed with a game called Farm Together that's a bit like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley but with...
Astroneer launches on Switch today, delivering space snail pets in xenobiology update
Happy Switch day to Astroneer: The cutesy multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox officially lands on Nintendo's portable platform as of today, with a digital box...
World of Warcraft informs players that Shards of Domination will be turned off in patch 9.2 content
We hope you didn't spend too much time farming up Shards of Domination in World of Warcraft on the basis of future-proofing against more difficult...
RuneScape destroys its duel arena with an earthquake to replace it with the Het’s Oasis ‘skilling arena’
How do you get rid of a blood-soaked fighting pit? If you're RuneScape, you hit it with a devastating earthquake, apparently. That's precisely what...
The Daily Grind: Would you pay to group in an MMORPG?
MMO blogger Belghast tweeted something just before the holiday that grabbed my attention. Apparently, at least on his New World server, players are demanding...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year's MMORPG predictions didn't exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren't really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did....
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s travel problem is also a storage problem
Today, I'd like to discuss the recent change that increased the experience needed to level crafting in New World: It's terrible, and it should...
Battlefield 2042 talks up plans to tackle performance issues, weapon spread, and XP farming
Last Friday saw Battlefield 2042 make its worldwide release and developer Dice is not about to sit back and let the game go without...
Albion Online’s massive fall update, Lands Awakened, is here
Albion Online's big fall update is finally here: Lands Awakened is officially live.
As we've been chronicling, Lands Awakened is a sweeping overhaul of the...
Pixelart Ravendawn charges into Alpha 3 – check out the new trailer
Massively OP readers know that we like to pull for the little guys trying to make a name for themselves in the MMORPG industry,...
Albion Online details Lands Awakeneds’ war gloves abilities, elite levels, and hideouts
We're just two days away from the launch of Albion Online's Lands Awakened, and Sandbox Interactive is dishing out its next-to-last dev blog and...
Beta impressions: Babylon’s Fall is a fun co-op looter-slasher in need of some release polish
Here is a funny story that is also entirely true. Square-Enix PR reached out to us to see if we were interested in covering...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Frontier Developments asks for players’ help in solving crashing errors with Elite Dangerous’ latest updates
The recent updates made to Elite: Dangerous - both Odyssey and Horizons - have regrettably introduced an increase of crashes to desktop, and the...
Albion Online’s Lands Awakened update launches November 24
My fellow Albion Online fans, we have a date for the game's next big thing: The Lands Awakened update is coming on November 24th....
20 tips for getting a good start in Fallen Earth’s apocalypse
It's certainly not every day that one of your favorite MMOs of all time comes back from the dead. When that happens, friends, it's...
One Shots: The mysterious allure of fire
I've often been in awe of the simple power of a fireplace or bonfire in how it fascinates everyone who comes near it. We,...
