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MultiVersus’ ongoing third season releases its latest playable character: Nubia Queen of the Amazons
While the current season of content for MultiVersus highlighted the Powerpuff Girls at launch last month, this month it's time to hail to the...
Ultima Online officially launches its first year-long New Legacy server and ClassicUO compatibility
New World isn't the only MMO with a big launch today: 27-year-old MMORPG Ultima Online also picked October 15th, 2024, for the rollout of...
You can trick-or-treat at player houses in this year’s Guild Wars 2 Shadow of the Mad King event
The best Guild Wars 2 event of the year (if you don't count Super Adventure Box) has arrived as of today, as the Shadow...
MMO Hype Train: Concern for the fragile labor and delivery of Pantheon
Welcome to MMO Hype Train, a new column here at Massively OP! In this space, I'll be channeling my excitement, speculation, and curiosity about...
New World Aeternum, still an MMORPG but now on console, has officially launched
This it it folks: The Europe and Oceania New World servers opened up in the wee hours of this morning, and now at 9...
The Daily Grind: Are you giving New World a second chance?
As this post is going live and you're reading this, it's Tuesday morning, the New World Aeternum servers are online for Europe and about...
Haven and Hearth will have its next world reset and Steam early access release November 1
Just in case you haven't followed along with Haven and Hearth's whole deal, the crafting-centered MMO has some regular world resets in order to...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s DPS jobs need a balance pass post-Dawntrail
Balance at the start of a new expansion is always really hard. It's not impossible, but the Final Fantasy XIV team has an uphill...
Dune Awakening answers questions about PvP, console release plans, and a melee combat revamp
Dune: Awakening has put forth another monthly newsletter - its second one since the initiative started in August even if this one leaped over...
New World Aeternum console preloading is underway, PC players can download tonight
All right, folks, this is it: New World's Aeternum rollout is underway.
Preloading for console players in all regions began yesterday - weirdly staggered, but...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen maps out its path to early access, now targeting the winter holiday season
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is once more calling attention to its early access release for December of this year - a fact that...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO you’re hoping won’t get screwed up before it launches?
MOP's Carlo recently linked us to a thread about the new Heroes of Might and Magic game from Ubisoft, and while the game is...
The MOP Up: Ethyrial adds guilds and guild leveling
We'll start today's leftover news roundup with the word that Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore added guilds with Patch 3.2.2!
"They can be created for the...
Global Chat: Does the MMO genre need a good rebranding?
As we all seem to love the topic of MMO definitions, it's with little surprise to see blogs discuss it as well. Contains Moderate...
LOTRO Legendarium: Should all LOTRO expansions include ‘special systems?’
It's been an exciting week for Lord of the Rings Online as full details and testing for this fall's expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, arrived...
Microsoft is sunsetting multiplayer functionality for Age of Empires 3’s classic version
So we have some good news and some bad news about multiplayer RTS Age of Empires 3. Let's do the bad news first: It's...
Overwatch 2 launches Halloween events October 15, Hearthstone opens The Great Dark Beyond November 5
It's about to get spooky, ookie, and kooky in both Overwatch 2 and Hearthstone over the next few weeks, with the superheroic PvP FPS...
Elder Scrolls Online expounds on the design of U44’s new player companions
ZeniMax Online Studios has previously introduced its two upcoming Elder Scrolls Online companions through lore pieces; now, the team is going in-depth on the...
Fallen Earth remake’s new Unity servers are ‘quite far along’ as devs target launch for Q4 2025
After a 10-month period of silence about Fallen Earth and its Unity remake, Little Orbit CEO Matt Scott sat down for an hour-long AMA...
New World’s latest Aeternum trailer splices cutscenes into gameplay to sell the experience
Does anyone remember back in 2021 when Amazon's media saturation for the launch of New World was insane? I sure do! I can't say...
