impressions
Superhero MMO Valiance Online apologizes for radio silence, discusses status of beta server
Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG Valiance Online saw a flurry of activity earlier this year when it opened up a beta in conjunction with the online...
First impressions of Netmarble’s A3 Still Alive: Is it relevant in 2020?
What's going with MMO names these days? First there was V4, and now we have A3. The full title is A3: Still Alive, which...
Amazon’s New World demo: Fishing, Reekwater, and hands-on havoc
It's certainly been rough seas for Amazon's upcoming New World over the past year -- especially with a significant change of development direction for...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga: Truce
So here we are, we’re finally entering the home stretch of the Icebrood Saga. Today sees the release of the first chapter of Champions,...
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...
Final Fantasy XIV interviews main scenario writer and lore director Banri Oda
Every single interview with the Final Fantasy XIV development team makes it clear that the people working on this game have a deep and passionate...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO at war with Orcs – or with its playerbase?
Normally, I would be opening this column with my enthusiastic explorations of the brand-new content update for Lord of the Rings Online. After all,...
First Impressions: OARPG Torchlight III just hasn’t click-clicked with me yet
Since it never hurts to be honest, I should say upfront here that Echtra Games' decision to radically retool Torchlight III from a F2P...
Global Chat: Comparing SWTOR’s and Star Wars Squadrons’ space battles
With Star Wars Squadrons now on the scene, a comparison between that game and SWTOR's galactic starfighter content was all but inevitable.
MMO blog Galactic...
Explaining Genshin Impact’s impact: Is it actually worth your time?
In Explaining Genshin Impact’s impact: The reinvention of gachapon, I went into the nitty-gritty of the gacha system and how it's actually pretty easy...
The MOP Up: Wakfu’s great server merge
Wakfu has finally set a date for its server merges. French servers are consolidating on October 14th, while international shards are coming together the...
Marvel’s Avengers has more content incoming to satisfy players according to Crystal Dynamics’ Scot Amos
It's only been out for a month, but Marvel's Avengers players are kind of on the bored side. This is probably not a huge surprise,...
First Impressions: Genshin Impact is half decent ARPG and half gacha
I forget when I first heard about Genshin Impact, but it was a while back, and it was something that I earmarked for the future...
Craftopia will dial back its update frequency in the interest of adding more content and managing time
If you've been following the update cadence of Craftopia, you'll note that it's been kicking out patches practically every single day, adding things like...
Choose My Adventure: Wurm Online is not for me, and that’s OK
Wurm Online has made me feel the most noobish I've ever felt in an MMORPG in ages even after the tutorial. A tutorial that, by the way, I did indeed do; it's literally impossible not to do the tutorial. I couldn't get in to a different island until I got through the tutorial. The tutorial was done.
Fight or Kite: Spellbreak’s epic combat and classes set it far apart from the battle royale pack
Another week, another battle royale arrives at my doorstep, this time with a subtle but sweet note attached: Please kind sir, take it in,...
Conan Exiles’ producer explains healing and food tweaks, outlines update plans for the Isle of Siptah
I haven't read many of the Conan the Barbarian books, but I'm reasonably sure that whenever he was brought low in a fight, he...
The Survivalist: First impressions of Conan Exiles’ Isle of Siptah expansion
Framed. Convicted. Exiled. Now, shipwrecked? What do the fates have in store for me next? Perhaps this Isle of Siptah will be my redress....
First impressions: Hands-on with Dauntless’ new Mission hunts and the Terra Escalation
There's another big content update on the way to Dauntless on September 17th, and this one has a few new poisonous tricks up its...
Players waged over a thousand PvP wars during New World’s preview week
With New World's preview week in the rear view mirror, we're left with various impressions and a whole lot of data for the development...
