halloween
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Unova Tour was functional but no fun
Pokemon GO's just announced the next Go Fest, but the recent Unova Tour LA Tour and now the Global Tour have both recently concluded,...
Perfect Ten: Ranking real-world holidays in MMOs from worst to best
There are really only two categories of MMO festivities: the ones made up for the game itself and the ones "inspired" by real-world holidays....
Wisdom of Nym: Why are Final Fantasy XIV’s event quests getting worse?
As I write this, I am looking forward to the Little Ladies' Day event in Final Fantasy XIV... or more specifically, I am looking...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Luckcatchers 2, Storebound, Might of Spells
Welcome back to a roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've (very likely) never heard of. If you have, then pat yourself on the...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
Casually Classic: Ranking WoW Classic’s six starting zones
Part of the sheer fun of fresh start servers and going through WoW Classic again is becoming reacquainted with that old and welcome friend,...
One Shots: Gather those rosebuds while you may
Hope you're not allergic to jungle settings and giant plants spewing all manner of pollen and brain-altering parasites, because we're going to the thick...
Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale
With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version...
New World’s weekly patch cleans up some bugs and buffs visual quality as the devs talk hippos
All right, a New World update, let's goooooo! Oh, it's a really tiny patch? And it turns off Halloween? Well, dangit.
Yes, New World's Aeternum...
The Stream Team: The Lord of Fear in Elder Scrolls Online’s Witches Festival
When games have been around a while, it seems there are fewer and fewer new things to experience during holiday festivals. And that's why...
The MOP Up: Torchlight Infinite invites you to step into a painting
Torchlight Infinite's sixth season, The Frozen Canvas, arrived with a new character and a mechanic centered around painting and canvases: "As these paintings are...
One Shots: A sticky situation, indeed
While I am a general fan of honey, the fact that this is a dessert guarded by hundreds of bees does turn my attention...
The Stream Team: The Hallowed Nights of Don’t Starve Together
Massively OP's MJ has been wanting to get back into the crazy survival-ness that is Don't Starve Together, and Halloween has given her a...
World of Warcraft’s Patch 11.0.7 may be coming sooner than you think
With World of Warcraft's Patch 11.0.7 and its Siren Isle in testing, there's a lot of speculation and curiosity over when Blizzard is scheduling...
Farm Together 2 has pumped out over 50 updates since its early access launch five months ago
Way back in May, we covered the launch of cozy multiplayer farming game Farm Together 2, the sequel to - you guessed it -...
Throne and Liberty launches Phantom Tracker’s Star season and battlepass as it fights RMT
In the wee hours of this morning, Amazon pushed out another patch for Throne and Liberty: The 1.5.0 update launches the new battle pass for...
The Stream Team: A parade of pumpkins plus a maze in the annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival
Last year, Massively OP's MJ discovered the neatest little Halloween game to explore and enjoy, but she could only do so for a short...
Destiny 2’s Halloween-y Festival of the Lost brings new weapons and sells a witchypoo outfit
Wizards hate this one trick for becoming a magic-wielding powerhouse! All you need to do is put on a floppy hat and bam -...
Tarisland and Skyforge have finally joined the Halloween event bandwagon
Better late than never for Halloween, eh? We've got a few more late arrivals to the Halloween scene today. No, they have nothing at...
Nightingale suffers second round of layoffs in two weeks as staff say the game’s early access will continue
Last week, we covered some unfortunate news for co-op sandbox Nightingale when we learned that its studio, Tencent-backed Inflexion, had abruptly closed down its...