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The No Man’s Sky Worlds ‘universe refresh’ is why you’re playing No Man’s Sky this weekend
You know that whenever Hello Games and Sean Murray start dropping cryptic teasers so they'll trend on Reddit, a new No Man's Sky update...
Not So Massively: The problem with The First Descendant’s character unlock mechanics
The First Descendant has made quite a splash since it launched earlier this month. Nexon's looter shooter, dubbed "Warframe with waifus" by the greater...
NetEase team shooter Marvel Rivals dates next cross-platform closed beta test for July 23
Team vs. team hero shooter Marvel Rivals continues to rumble forth through its testing phases. Readers will recall that NetEase announced that the game...
The MOP Up: Marvel Snap goes maximum effort with this month’s Deadpool season
Deadpool's taken over Marvel Snap (just in time for his new movie) and is bringing a new game mode, several new cards (including Gwenpool),...
The MOP Up: League of Legends’ game modes help to refresh its theme park design
League of Legends' game director explained why the MOBA is adding a Vampire Survivors-type mode to make it more like a "theme park," saying,...
Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?
Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....
Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs
A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with NetEase’s team shooter Marvel Rivals
There are lots of Summer Games Fest embargos still in place and more coming this week, but fortunately NetEase's Marvel Rivals is something I can...
Marvel Rivals confirms launch on Xbox and PS5, two new characters, and a multi-platform beta in July
NetEase's team vs. team shooter Marvel Rivals is spreading its wings to new horizons, as the shooter has just announced that it will be...
Marvel Rivals will revise content creator contract after streamers blast non-disparagement clause
"We'll let you be a supported streamer, but you're not allowed to say bad things about our game." That's effectively what NetEase's Marvel Rivals...
Marvel Rivals discusses adding environmental destruction to a competitive shooter
Generally speaking, the maps of a team vs. team shooter are static; you can blast all of the buildings you want, but they'll be...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with forever adding classes to MMOs
The second expansion for Final Fantasy XI, Chains of Promathia, launched to extremely mixed reception, and there was one overwhelming reason for that lack of...
Marvel Rivals kicks off its closed alpha test on May 10
Is there another faintly superheroic shooter you're over so you want something new to watch? It definitely seems as if Marvel Rivals is hoping...
Marvel Snap previews its May update with five more mutants and heroes
Marvel Snap is about to take May by storm thanks to its A Blink in Time season. Second Dinner's Ben Brode -- as hyper...
Into the Super-Verse: A toast to City of Heroes’ 20th birthday
How does you mark your first true MMO experience? Anarchy Online technically was the first MMO I ever played, although I was on dial-up,...
Diablo IV’s S4 Loot Reborn launches on May 14th – here’s what’s in it
All right, Diablo IV fans, this is it: the loot overhaul you've been waiting for. Blizzard formally announced today that D4's fourth season -...
NetEase and Marvel Games are building a new team shooter called Marvel Rivals, with closed alpha in May
The lack of Marvel in the MMO space has always seemed kind of weird, especially given the vacuum left by the beloved Marvel Heroes,...
Marvel Snap’s big feature patch adds graveyards, custom borders, and undo turn
Marvel Snap's first big feature drop of 2024 is here, bringing with it several much-requested quality-of-life improvements to the multiplayer card battler.
Second Dinner released...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with live-action media tie-ins
Every so often I think to myself that a video game should get some kind of media adaptation before I come to my senses....
Vague Patch Notes: You might be the reason you no longer love this MMO
Despite its ubiquity in sitcoms throughout the '90s, I have never had a single relationship end with the other person saying, "It's not you,...
