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Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
New World’s Aeternum launch trailer shows the MMORPG character journey – backward
We may be two weeks out from launch, but MMORPG New World has dropped its Aeternum launch trailer this afternoon anyhow. And the framing...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy will finally launch October 15
If you noticed that Ultima Online's New Legacy stress test came to an end on Tuesday without, you know, an actual date for the...
Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling
We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...
GeForce NOW’s October games lineup kicks off with the addition of Throne and Liberty
Throne and Liberty seems to be kind of everywhere right now, what with its free-to-play launch on Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S this week,...
EverQuest’s 31st expansion, The Outer Brood, launches in December
With EverQuest II's end-of-the-year expansion already in testing and ready for preorders, you had to figure that Classic EverQuest wouldn't be far behind, and...
Blizzard begins the countdown for Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred
I sure hope you're ready for a huge influx of Diablo IV info because Blizzard absolutely dumped a ton of previews and details for...
The Stream Team: Let’s dive into the newly launched Throne and Liberty
It's time for MOP's Chris to hop into Throne and Liberty for real this time! He's had some time to get to just about...
LOTRO: Legacy of Morgoth opens expansion pre-orders, aims for November 6 launch
Lord of the Rings Online's southward expansion aims to continue into the deserts of Harad next month when Legacy of Morgoth releases. Standing Stone...
Wayfinder kicks console and PC crossplay into high gear in preparation for launch
With its full launch out of early access just a few weeks away, Wayfinder is getting all of its high-tech affairs in order for...
Throne & Liberty adds 41 new servers to handle global launch pops, peaking at 326K Steam players so far
Welp, we knew that Throne and Liberty was going to see a big blast of players when it switched from its paid headstart to...
Synduality Echo of Ada is a dystopian sci-fi PvPvE third-person shooter arriving January 23
Sure, Bandai Namco, we didn't want a new MMORPG; what we actually wanted was another PvPvE shooter instead. That's right, this is what we're...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 487: Give me Throne and Liberty
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's launch, the new book on Blizzard, ArcheAge 2's morph into ArcheAge Chronicles, and New World Aeternum's impending release, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO history and games preservation.
Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred live action trailer features Camila Cabello covering The Who
Remember the excerpt from Jason Schreier's new book on Blizzard that mentions the Activision-installed executives who allegedly questioned the wisdom of keeping around "nondevelopment...
NCsoft’s MMORPG Throne & Liberty has officially arrived at its global F2P launch
All right folks, if you've been waiting for Lineage 3 aka Lineage Eternal aka Project TL for the last decade, your moment is finally...
Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon adds horse breeding and instanced guild halls in latest update
Do you know how outlandish a feature has to be before the devs of Project Gorgon have to call it outlandish? It's outlandish indeed,...
PlanetSide 2 introduces an honest-to-goodness fishing activity to its public test server
We are well past the month of April, so you know that PlanetSide 2 isn't telling a joke: Fishing is coming to the persistent...
Warframe’s Koumei and the Five Fates launches October 2, Warframe 1999 demo arrives October 16
The month of October is going to be bringing a whole lot to the playerbase of Warframe, as Digital Extremes' developer livestream from the...
EVE Online’s mobile strategy spin-off, Galaxy Conquest, launches in late October
Sure, EVE Online's seen more spin-offs than you can shake a stick at, but that's the great thing about sticks -- there's always more...
Star Citizen recaps its server meshing efforts and outlines future testing plans
It would be easy to assume that the server meshing technology being attempted by Star Citizen has just been spinning its wheels, but evidently...
