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Elite Dangerous Update 17 brings forth another laundry list of fixes and continued tease of ‘louder rumbling’
“The rumbling got quieter and then much, much louder," read the not-very-jumbled word jumble in Elite: Dangerous' timing announcement for Update 17. That jumble...
Elite Dangerous outlines patch timing and teases October 16’s Update 17
What's coming in Update 17 for Elite: Dangerous? We don't know yet; Frontier Developments always puts out the patch notes on the day of...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most chaotic behavior you’ve seen from MMO players?
A week or two ago, I found myself discussing Ultima Online by way of trying to convince our work chat that players often do...
The Cycle Frontier sunsets today as studio YAGER says goodbye to players, literally
Back in June, we learned the sad news that Tencent-backed YAGER would be sunsetting its PvEvP shooter The Cycle Frontier, owing in part to...
Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs
This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...
One Shots: Bumping into an old, old friend
When you log back into an MMORPG after a long time away, that feeling of being an intruding stranger is pretty strong. But you...
Elite Dangerous addresses a laundry list of Update 16 issues in latest bug-squashing patch
It appears to be the same ol' song and dance out of Elite: Dangerous: Frontier releases an update to the game is released, and...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ideal MMO aesthetic?
I had to giggle a while back when a Blizzard developer described Diablo IV's aesthetic as "dark noodles." That's just so perfect, and it...
Elite Dangerous Update 16 adds a mystery feature, squashes multiple bugs, and pays tribute to a former dev
Today is another patch day for Elite: Dangerous, and if you were hoping for some mystery, then you're in luck because Update 16's patch...
Elite Dangerous dates Update 16 for August 1, releases an updated launcher, and halts investigation of some bugs
It's been some time since headlines have come out of the internet spaceship playground of Elite: Dangerous, but this week has seen a few...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs that are worth their dreadful early gameplay
I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...
Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs
'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...
Steam’s Summer Sale 2023 is live through July 13 with deals on FFXIV, GW2, New World, ESO, and more
Valve has revived the traditional Steam summer sale this afternoon, with gobs of good deals running well beyond the 4th of July. Perhaps the...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter buffs its companion healing factor by up to 100%
Neverwinter's medically minded companions received a massive infusion of green numbers this past week, as Cryptic buffed those particular pets by a significant amount.
"We...
Massively Overthinking: When an MMO has everything and so much of it
Last week, when No Man's Sky released its native Mac client, MOP's Chris and I fell into a discussion about the game being so...
Elite Dangerous attacks a wide assortment of bugs plaguing Update 15 in latest patch
It's time once again for Elite: Dangerous to fill in more of the cracks of Update 15. The space sandbox's newest update is primarily...
Perfect Ten: Get out of my dreams and get into my (MMO) car
Cars. They go vroom-vroom, and then they go really fast, and how do we live in a country where you basically need a car...
Whatever happened to Osiris New Dawn, Cinderstone Online, and Magnificent 5?
Welcome back to a fresh edition of Whatever Happened To, the randomly occurring column in which we realize some MMOs have fallen off our...
Elite Dangerous’ latest patch applies further bug fixes and better reflects when the Thargoids are beaten
Claiming victory against the Thargoid incursion of any given system in Elite: Dangerous may not have been quite as clear-cut as players would like,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
