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Darkfall Rise of Agon patches in old-school mobs, opens supporter pack funding program
Sanctioned Darkfall spinoff Rise of Agon has been busy since its 2017 launch with multiple content and quality-of-life patches - it's even been teasing...
Check out the new maps being built for City of Heroes’ Paragon Chat
City of Heroes refugees have long since scattered across the internet, spread among emulators, other superhero titles, and indie games being built in the...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG should have never been made?
This could be a gruesome topic, but it popped into my head after GIbiz published an article with advice for game developers from Melbourne Games....
You’re going to want to play new indie MMO One Hour One Life for a lot more than one hour
Looking for something new and interesting to cap off your Friyay? Swing by Steam and take a peek at One Hour One Life. It's...
Fractured ‘sprints’ toward pre-alpha test, shows off day/night cycle
For those suffering with MMO wanderlust this fall and looking for new territory to explore, Fractured might have a rather unique prospect available soon....
Massively Overthinking: Is there too much negativity in the MMO genre?
MassivelyOP reader Threespeed posed us an interesting question for this week's Overthinking that I thought was particularly appropriate given the Trion Worlds situation.
"Everyone has...
Dauntless dev Phoenix Labs leads financing round to secure ‘a couple years of runway’
Indie developer Phoenix Labs, creator of cooperative action MMO Dauntless, announced this week that it has secured substantial funding thanks to "a Series C...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that desperately need proper player housing
Here's something pretty encouraging to me: When I sat down to work on an article listing MMOs that really could use but lacked proper...
Stardew Valley’s iOS version is coming soon – but without multiplayer
October 24th. That's pretty much all you need to know if you're (a) an owner of an Apple device, (b) have a fondness for this...
Mad World shows off some gameplay videos that do, in fact, involve people running in circles
All around me are computer platforms,
Some are Windows, some are Android,
I would like to play the same game on them,
This game does it, thanks...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Conquest Resurgence Within, Rohan Mobile, Drawn to Death, El Somni Quas
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let’s run down a few more that crossed...
LOTRO Legendarium: Future classes, business models, and direction
For any MMORPG fan, the future often weighs heavily upon the mind. We get excited about what secrets might be in development. We wonder...
Here’s what’s going on with China’s video game approval process in simple terms
We all know that China is a big and expanding market for video games, and you probably know that this year has seen a...
Vague Patch Notes: WildStar deserves its shutdown, even though we loved it
Last week, when we heard that WildStar was being shut down, I penned a truthful, heartfelt eulogy for the game as it could've been....
LOTRO Legendarium: A new Lord of the Rings MMO enters the One Ring
It's a tale as old as time: Whenever an MMO starts getting up there in years and starting to show signs of age, you...
Leaderboard: Does an MMORPG’s publisher factor into whether you’ll play it?
I was genuinely surprised to see so many people flip out over August's reveal that Ashes of Creation will be using My.com as its...
The Daily Grind: How much of an MMO graphics snob are you?
Pretty much any time that Project Gorgon comes up in discussion around Massively OP, a discussion invariably takes place among readers that weighs the...
Ashes of Creation confirms subscription model, allays fears over IP blocking and region locking
More overseas publishing information has trickled out of Ashes of Creation this weekend thanks to players funneling info from Discord to the forums.
Readers will...
Funcom’s Mutant Year Zero is launching on December 4 on PC and console
"Funcom and The Bearded Ladies" still sounds like an indie rock band to me, so imagine this post is a song, shall we? The...
Video essay examines the indie MMO nostalgia trend
YouTuber The Hive Leader stirred up a lot of discussion this past weekend with a new video essay called "Nostalgia and Indie MMOs." In...
