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Iron Harvest 1920 adds new game mode, plans story DLC for December
Multiplayer RTS Iron Harvest 1920's latest patch has added a new competitive mode, Drop Zone, which can be played in all PvP modes as...
ArcheAge Unchained extends its free trial into December
ArcheAge Unchained's free trial program must be doing well for the MMO -- or the studio wants to divert attention from other, more shadowy...
Massively Overthinking: No-thank-you bites in MMO gaming
One of the things I always try to have my kids do is take a no-thank-you bite of new foods. They have to at...
Why I Play: Exploring World of Warcraft as a free-to-play game
A few weeks back, the Massively OP staff discussed, among other things, whether World of Warcraft's leveling revamp coupled with its continued endless free...
Massively Overthinking: Where is the line between buy-to-play, free-to-play, and subscription MMOs?
You might think this Massively Overthinking topic is way too obvious, but I assure you, it's not! Consider this: When the buy-to-play-with-no-sub Guild Wars...
PSA: Fallout 76 is offering a free trial, Fallout First trial, and an atom sale
Some games celebrate the day their games hit early access, or funded on Kickstarter, or actually launched. Fallout 76, however, is celebrating a lore...
Wisdom of Nym: Going to war in Bozja in Final Fantasy XIV
Here we are in the wake of Final Fantasy XIV's latest content patch, and while there are a lot of different things that were technically...
ArcheAge Unchained offers free trial as Reddit melts down over pay-to-win
So let's just get this out of the way upfront: ArcheAge Unchained's rollout a year ago did not go as well as Gamigo was...
Overwatch’s Halloween Terror is back once again with new cosmetics and challenge missions
The well-known (and regularly repeated) Halloween event of Overwatch is back once again. It's time for Halloween Terror 2020, bringing along the usual Junkenstein's...
Elder Scrolls Online has just begun another freebie ESO Plus sub trial
Elder Scrolls Online is kicking off yet another free sub trial event starting today and running through October 19th. As usual, ESO players who take...
Interview: Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on home development, future villains, and the big changes in patch 5.3
The story of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers got a pretty explosive sendoff in patch 5.3, which brought several major plotlines to their conclusion and...
Black Desert adds a tactics-based PvE arena, a summertime quiz, and a trial that gives away the game
Free game alert, though with a bit of an asterisk: Black Desert is offering a free trial starting now until August 5th that can...
Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.3 gets a trailer along with more patch details ahead of August 11
Patch 5.3, Reflections in Crystal, arrives in Final Fantasy XIV on August 11th after an unusually long delay. But if you need to see...
Pathfinder Online moves into open enrollment and makes several updates
Since it's been some time since we last took a peek at Pathfinder Online, we thought it would be a good idea to see...
So ArcheAge Unchained’s Garden of the Gods is not free, and ArcheAge players are not happy
Do you folks remember last August, when Gamigo formally announced ArcheAge Unchained, promising a new monetization model for a buy-to-play version of the sandbox,...
ArcheAge Unchained issues free trial ahead of Garden of the Gods
With ArcheAge's Garden of the Gods update on the way in June, Gamigo is looking to pique interest and boost the playerbase with a...
Elder Scrolls Online unlocks subscription benefits for a week
With Greymoor just on the horizon, Elder Scrolls Online is receiving a whole lot of attention these days. And now there's an additional reason...
Coronavirus roundup: Blizzard, free APB Reloaded, EA esports, HPWU, and how your PC can help humans win
Feel pretty surreal to be reporting on a global crisis like the coronavirus in our indie pages here on MOP, but it affects everyone...
Interview: Population Zero devs on the May Steam launch, buy-to-play, and PvP philosophy
Survival MMORPG Population Zero is officially launching on Steam in early May, Enplex Games announced today. As part of the reveal, the studio's also...
Acti-Blizzard games vanished from GeForce NOW over a ‘misunderstanding,’ Nvidia says
Last week we reported on the sudden removal of Activision-Blizzard titles from GeForce Now, the streamed games service offered by Nvidia, with barely an...
