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The Daily Grind: What’s the best way MMOs can improve player retention – other than new content?
Months ago, Gamasutra published a piece about the long-tail of game development - basically, how to keep a video game selling copies and/or attracting...
Stick and Rudder: The frustrating and unsuccessful search for life in Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha phase 3
I should have been more capable. If I were a better exploration pilot in Elite: Dangerous, I suspect I would have had a better...
The MOP Up: Why did Fortnite go dark for a day?
Earlier this month, the ever-popular Fortnite went dark for the better part of April 6th. So what happened? We finally have the full scoop...
Elite Dangerous announces Odyssey alpha phase 4 start date and details of character snapshot timing
The final phase of Odyssey's alpha is coming a lot sooner than maybe some players of Elite: Dangerous expected. Shortly following the announcement of...
Star Citizen brings alpha 3.13 online with new vehicles and features, talks with devs at Turbulent in video
Last night saw Star Citizen add a fresh layer to its alpha build with the release of 3.13, otherwise known as Underground Infamy. The...
Massively Overthinking: How much are you spending on MMOs every month right now?
A while back, MOP's Justin joked that his wife, who loves econ PvP in MMOs, was funding a year of his play on Classic...
Elite Dangerous Odyssey confirms a May 19 release date on PC
It looks like the progress being made in the Elite: Dangerous Odyssey alpha is moving at a predictable enough pace that Frontier Developments can...
Elite Dangerous plans to remove minigame aspect of exo-biology, promises to fix planet scanning bugs
The primary feature of Elite: Dangerous Odyssey's third alpha phase has been the exo-biology gameplay loop, where players have to scan plants to earn...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 318: Middle-earth no more
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO's cancelation, LOTRO's Bilbo patch, FFXIV's 5.5, and SWG Legends' Bespin expansion, with adventures in WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, Albion Online, and Cozy Grove, plus mailbag topics on ugly duckling MMOs, reconciling immersion, and superhero MMOs.
EVE Online highlights how industrial players provide the fuel for the sandbox MMO’s wider wars
As any player of EVE Online will tell you, waging galactic-sized wars in the game requires a lot of resources -- especially when those...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most unique experience mechanic in MMOs?
Bhagpuss over on MMO blog Inventory Full recently penned a piece about an experience mechanic in EverQuest II that I had completely forgotten existed:...
The MOP Up: Apex Legends racks up 100 million players
For some games, the key metric to brag by is the total number of players that have come in through one's doors. And if...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends finally puts a date on the City in the Clouds expansion: May the fourth
Rogue server Star Wars Galaxies Legends has been teasing its Bespin expansion, called City in the Clouds, for literally years now. It was supposed...
Stick and Rudder: Elite Dangerous Odyssey’s second alpha phase had more FPS goodness and even more bugs
The whole that made up the second phase of Elite Dangerous Odyssey's alpha testing could easily be broken up into two parts: Frontline Solutions...
SWG Galaxies Restoration III’s CU/NGE blend rogue server says launch is ‘imminent’
If you follow the Star Wars Galaxies emulation community at all, you're probably waiting on a very big announcement from a certain rogue server...
Massively Overthinking: The 2021 MMORPG outlook is good, actually
Early this week, I saw a mainstream gaming headline in my feeds about how we should all just give up on 2021 since it's...
Scan plants for fun and profit in Elite Dangerous’ Odyssey alpha phase three, which is live today
While there are certainly no shortage of ways to rake in the space cheddar in Elite: Dangerous, the newest phase of alpha testing for...
Star Citizen announces October 9 date for all-virtual CitizenCon
This won't surprise anyone, I suspect: Cloud Imperium has once again opted for an all-virtual CitizenCon for Star Citizen fans this year.
"As circumstances continue...
EVE Online plans testing for its native MacOS client tomorrow and releases its industry update
Players of EVE Online on a Mac are one step closer to getting their own native client for the game. The devs at CCP...
MMO Business Roundup: Roblox prank, Hi-Rez, Wargaming, Epic’s funding round, CCP’s metaverse
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
A Roblox player from a goofy political meme group apparently pulled quite a stunt...
