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‘It’s all coming back, just as you left it’: Fawkes hypes the return of Defiance with a new teaser video
Last week, we got the surprising but welcome news that Fawkes Games is unsunsetting Defiance, Trion Worlds' old "transmedia synergy MMO, come April 18th....
Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet
Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...
Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games
Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025
I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
City of Heroes Homecoming offers a brief roadmap with two major updates planned for 2025
While City of Heroes Homecoming's license from NCsoft was big news last January, regular readers will know that after the initial rush of players...
City of Heroes Homecoming expands today with the addition of the Victory server
A year ago when NCsoft first granted City of Heroes Homecoming the license to operate officially, the devs made clear that they would be...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best Classic MMO
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best Classic MMO, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XI last year. We've...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Standing Stone Games...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024
I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...
Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
The Daily Grind: Have you let go of any old MMORPG obsessions?
Earlier this year, when City of Heroes Homecoming first scored a license to operate from NCsoft, my kid fell hard into econ PvP over...
Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?
Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...
The Daily Grind: How much in-game money are you willing to spend on an MMORPG house?
A few weeks back, we did a piece rounding up some of the cool stuff Guild Wars 2 players have been building in Janthir...
City of Heroes’ Halloween 2024 is fun – but the community-run Witch’s House event steals the show
While technically the City of Heroes Homecoming Halloween event for 2024 went live earlier this month, it was barely a footnote compared to the...
City of Heroes Homecoming is about to release 1.6M character names – here’s how to save yours
The legally licensed City of Heroes Homecoming team has released an update today, though it's not entirely the content kind. The most important part...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s community is holding a player base real estate auction this weekend
Would you like to own a player base in City of Heroes: Homecoming but can't be bothered to do all of that pesky furniture...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p1 is live with the Marine Affinity powerset and new raid
If you were keeping an eyeball on City of Heroes' Homecoming not-rogue servers over the last month, you already knew that the player-led volunteer...
City of Heroes Homecoming begins public testing of new raid and Marine-themed support set
The totally legal and licensed City of Heroes Homecoming (isn't that fun to say?!) has rolled out Issue 28: Page 1, dubbed Legacy, to...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
