martial arts
Vague Patch Notes: Can the gaming industry move on from high school, please?
So this weekend had at least one incident that was, I'm not remotely sorry to say, exceedingly funny. If you've been paying any attention...
The Swordsmen X Survival quietly lists an April 27 early access release date on Steam and releases new trailers
Last month we took a peek back in the direction of Swordsmen X: Survival, a martial arts survival sandbox that first crossed our desk...
Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Swordsman X Survival, Legend of Lunia, and X8
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's random and recurring roundup of a few MMOs you've never heard of! Maybe you've heard of some of them. You're...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Blade and Soul prepares to celebrate its seventh anniversary on January 11
It's been a seven-year ride for Blade and Soul since it launched in the West, a ride filled with skimpy costumes, extremely shiny skin,...
Perfect World’s Jade Dynasty World shares a new video as it prepares for an August 19 pre-alpha tech test
Last month we caught wind of Jade Dynasty World, an updated and open-world version of the classic Jade Dynasty that was sunsetted in 2018....
Perfect World revives the previously shuttered Jade Dynasty with development of Jade Dynasty World
Back in 2018, Perfect World sunsetted the MMORPG Jade Dynasty, noting in the announcement that the devs behind the game were moving on to...
Tencent’s teased UE5 MMORPG is codenamed To Jin Yong, a Wuxia open world headed for global release
Last week, Tencent was gearing up to unveil a new MMORPG, teasing that it would simply be an open-world title and built on Unreal...
Fight or Kite: Absolver is the greatest martial arts melee brawler you never played
I’ve been wanting to write about Absolver for the better part of my time here at MOP. In fact, it’s been rolling around the...
Massively Overthinking: Bots in MMOs – but not the bad bots
A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a provocative thread about bots - no, not those bots. Essentially, the Redditor asked whether...
Lost Ark teases the Glaivier and Destroyer advanced classes, might hold back some spring raid content
Amazon and Smilegate dished out more details for its roadmap entry for Lost Ark last night, telling players the studios want to "keep the...
Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago?
It's 2022 and we're about to talk about free-to-play like it's 2012! Back then, the conversation was all about which MMORPG would fall to free-to-play...
Chinese martial arts MMORPG Justice Online announces western release but it can be played via cloud gaming now
Have you heard of Justice Online? Unless you live in China, probably not: It's a martial arts MMORPG based on a wuxia novel by...
Blade and Soul adds the new Soul Fighter spec and celebrates six years in the Soul Resurgence update
Blade and Soul is six years old and it's celebrating by letting Soul Fighters slap enemies at mid-range with glowing hands of divinity. This...
Martial arts survivalbox The Swordsmen X Survival details planned features as it eyes a 2022 launch
Last July, we wondered what happened to the Age of Wushu franchise, and in our digging around we came across The Swordsmen X: Survival,...
Fight or Kite: Naraka Bladepoint is battle royale but with grappling hooks
Welcome back to the Monday after a holiday (at least in the US). Hopefully you were able to enjoy your family, friends, or game...
Tree of Savior adds Luchador class, previews Sadhu rework and Hwarang archer
Whatever happened to Tree of Savior? Despite the fact that the isometric MMO made it to a top ten list of MMORPGs we've already...
Design Mockument: Fresh ideas for City of Heroes 2 in 2021
Back in 2019, I had the idea to make Design Mockument semi-regular column because I like doing this sort of thing. I put out...
Whatever happened to the Age of Wushu franchise?
This story has something of an interesting progression to it. It began with a dive into whatever happened to Age of Wushu, which then...
