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Albion Online wants to boost players’ ‘incentives for backstabbing and going to war’
Over the last few months, Albion Online's Sandbox Interactive has continued its push to rebalance the endgame meta - specifically, the power and potency...
The Daily Grind: Are you on board for Burning Crusade Classic?
It seems all but one official announcement short of certainty that Blizzard is going to be rolling out a Burning Crusade Classic server for...
EverQuesting: Looking back at EverQuest’s 21st year
There are landmark years, and then there are landmark years. (Not to be confused with Landmark, which has been gone for years.) You can...
Grab a key for Shadow Arena’s final beta, courtesy of Pearl Abyss and MOP
As we've been covering, Pearl Abyss is gearing up for a 2020 release of Shadow Arena, the standalone battle royale based on Black Desert's...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Speculating on Guild Wars 2’s Cantha expansion features
I never thought I’d be saying this with a straight face, but yes, Guild Wars 2 is finally going to Cantha! This fan-favorite locale...
Phantasy Star Online 2 provides closed beta players with rewards for participation
Technically speaking, Phantasy Star Online 2 is currently still in beta testing, but since it's an open beta test it's close enough to "launch"...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that don’t deserve second chances?
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an interesting question: Is it time for gamers to stop giving second chances to bungled MMOs and live...
Star Trek Online expands First Contact Day starting on April 2
It's just about time to celebrate humanity's first steps to the stars in Star Trek Online... or the fictional version of the same, more...
COVID-19 roundup: #PlayApartTogether, Blade & Soul perks, and Twitch Aid’s $2.7M charity raise
Welcome back to another quick roundup of pandemic-related MMO and gaming news. We'll start with the big one: The World Health Organization, which made...
Last Oasis goes offline for a week to fix problems, offers refunds
It's a bit of a double-edged sword when you launch your popular early access game. On one hand, you may just become the top-selling...
The MOP Up: Naruto Slugfest steps up to bat
Naruto Slugfest, the mobile MMO based on the hit franchise, just activated a soft early access launch, with no wipe to follow. Players can...
One Shots: Acrophobia immersion therapy
For those, like myself, who have a slight fear of heights, then boy does Star Citizen have the ship for you! It's the equivalent...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment
The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...
DarkStory is a 2-D MMORPG that hearkens back to 16-bit era RPGs
I admit that my RPG gaming sensibilities are greatly informed by the SNES age of JRPGs. Games like Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Mana...
Blue Protocol starts its Japanese closed beta testing on April 23
The beta test for Blue Protocol had to be delayed a little bit before based on COVID-19, but it was always just a delay....
Woodpunk survival MMO Last Oasis has officially launched on Steam early access
Woodpunk survival MMO Last Oasis is officially live in early access on Steam today - because we don't have enough apocalypse in our lives...
Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle
To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
Elite Dangerous is bringing fleet carriers to beta in April and May, eyes full release in June
It's certainly felt like a long time coming, but Elite Dangerous will soon bring the much-anticipated fleet carrier spaceship type to the internet spaceship...
Bethsoft has delayed Fallout 76’s Wastelanders expansion again – but only by a week
Fallout 76 players have been waiting for the Wastelanders expansion for a long time, it's safe to say. It was originally meant to come...
Gloria Victis announces a standalone management game where players must survive a siege
While most of us here recognize Gloria Victis as a sandbox MMORPG, developer Fish Tank Studio is working with Black Eye Games as publisher...
