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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...
Torchlight III shows off the Sharpshooter class in new alpha video
Multiplayer not-an-MMO-anymore Torchlight III has a new dev blog and video out today on the Sharpshooter, its very last new class before launch. MMO...
PSA: Grab a free Secret World Legends outfit and weapon thanks to Moons of Madness’ console launch
Take a hint from the Secret World universe: The next time that you think about heading into outer space, stay home instead. There's nothing...
First impressions of the elusive Phantasy Star Online 2
We certainly live in interesting times. Last year, the idea of playing Phantasy Star Online 2 while I'm explicitly told to not leave the house...
Massively on the Go: Why MMO players will love Animal Crossing New Horizons
Some of you may have noticed that several staffers and fellow MassivelyOP readers noted that they were playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons last weekend....
Blade & Soul launches the Forgotten Souls update today
Gosh, don't you hate when you're going from the Earth Realm to the Spirit Realm and you forget all your souls? Has that never...
Blade & Soul Revolution kicks off pre-registration for its English version
Yes, if you want to get Blade & Soul in a more mobile spin-off form, you can start pre-registration for the English version of...
Bless Unleashed’s latest trailer touts its combat over tab-target MMOs
You might have forgotten about Bless Unleashed's recent launch, what with the world being aflame right now, but its launch, along with the release...
