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MMO Week in Review: New World’s truncated season, Corepunk’s paid alpha
New World just can't stop seem to stop hitting itself: This week, Amazon suffered an undisclosed issue with its season leaderboard and wound up...
MMO Week in Review: Bungie’s bungles, Fellowship’s fancies
Destiny 2's Bungie volunteered to be the industry villain of the week as it slashed multiple games and teams with cancelations and layoffs as...
MMO Week in Review: The WoWGG union and WoW’s War Within prepatch
World of Warcraft offered two pieces of huge news this week: Its developer team formed a wall-to-wall union, WoWGG, that includes members from multiple...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s August is leaning into Adventure
I must admit that Pokemon Go's traditional Adventure Week events have historically been a minor hit with me as they feature the fossil 'mon...
Massively Overthinking: How much research do you do before playing a new MMORPG?
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I discussed our experiences in No Man's Sky (again), and both of us came to the conclusion...
Hearthstone’s Perils in Paradise expansion has released
It's time for some fun in the sun in Hearthstone, as this week brought the Perils in Paradise expansion to the digital CCG, featuring...
Enter to win a Gigantic Rampage Edition key on PC, PlayStation, or Xbox in honor of Ranked Mode S1
Gigantic's devs has a big day in store for fans of the game, as season one of the MOBA's Ranked Mode is live on...
Choose My Adventure: Gleeful space truckin’ through Elite Dangerous
This is, for all intents and purposes, going to be a very simple, laid back, and perhaps obnoxiously serene edition of Choose My Adventure....
Enter to win a Neverwinter Volcanic Galeb Duhr companion pack in our Mountain of Flame giveaway
In celebration of last week's multiplatform launch of Neverwinter's latest module, Mountain of Flame, Cryptic has kindly granted us gift codes to raffle to...
MMO Week in Review: Worlds, Solisium, and TennoCon
Lumpy Spacesuit Couture or not, Hello Games' No Man's Sky dropped a massive revamp-centric patch meant to enliven the MMO's environments, among other things....
Grab a New World Aeternum PS5 console beta key from MOP and Amazon – EU version
After a brief delay, MMORPG players - and non-MMORPG players, as Amazon hopes - will finally be getting their first look at New World's...
Grab a New World Aeternum PS5 console beta key from MOP and Amazon – NA version
After a brief delay, MMORPG players - and non-MMORPG players, as Amazon hopes - will finally be getting their first look at New World's...
MMO Week in Review: Early access windows for Corepunk and Pantheon
Two different MMORPGs announced early access this week, both planned for the end of the year: the long-awaited Corepunk, and the Kickstarted Pantheon. Something...
Here’s how to access Pantheon’s July beta test for free, courtesy of Visionary Realms
Pantheon's big announcement this week - that it's officially launching into early access in December after years of testing and crowdfunding - was accompanied...
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak’s Palia buyout, Dawntrail’s peak concurrency
Even in a holiday week, the MMO news just kept coming: Daybreak startled nearly everyone by buying out Palia studio Singularity 6, Final Fantasy...
MMO Week in Review: Stars (Wars Galaxies 2) Reach
In my MMO guild, whenever somebody mentions a new game, it's tradition to absurdly announced that we're all moving to whatever it is, and...
Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the burgeoning gacha gaming industry
In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s July spread is basically just marking time until Go Fest
It's not particularly surprising that, once again, Pokemon Go isn't really sharing a lot of details about what's in store for the month of...
MMO Week in Review: Tarisland, Pax Dei, and Black Desert’s Heidel Ball
Tarisland officially launched this week, treating global players to Tencent's WoW clone that looks... kinda less and less like a WoW clone as you...
PSA: Elder Scrolls Online gifts all subscribers with a free… dragon camel?
Assign this to the category of "word combos we never thought we'd see in a sentence," but Elder Scrolls Online is giving a free...
