mythology
The MOP Up: Hearthstone welcomes the Year of the Wolf
The Year of the Wolf is coming to Hearthstone: "Throughout the Year of the Wolf, we’ll be focusing our efforts on making Hearthstone and...
The MOP Up: Open-world tactical RPG Wartales releases next month
Looking to wage medieval war in a different format? You'll soon get your chance with Wartales, an open-world tactical RPG that's fully luanching on...
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...
SMITE studio promises to hunt and ban accounts tied to a harassment campaign that targeted women
Titan Forge Games, aka the Hi-Rez Studios team behind SMITE, are making it very plain that targeted harassment will not be tolerated. The studio...
City State says new hires put Camelot Unchained progress ‘ahead of schedule,’ debuts Hamadryad race
A significant hiring push is proving to be a "big assist" in the effort to get Camelot Unchained finished, City State's Mark Jacobs said...
Dark Age of Camelot brings back its speed-leveling event, Catch Up in Caledonia
The "it" MMO from 2001 is looking for a few good souls to put through its medieval meat grinder -- with a leg up,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO you tried super late in its lifetime?
Earlier this month, an MOP reader tweeted about trying Dark Age of Camelot for the first time in 2023 and falling in love, which...
The MOP Up: World of Tanks expands its garage to include tournament access
World of Tanks players are being treated to another round of feature ammo in the near future, as Wargaming is expanding the functionality of...
The Daily Grind: Do you like zerg vs. zerg PvP in MMOs?
Early on in 2023, Sandbox Interactive sent Albion Online players a detailed survey asking about their game preferences, and included within was a question...
The Secret World Classic’s account site is down, but the original version is still running
There are some mild-to-moderately concerning developments concerning The Secret World -- the original version, that is, not the Legends reboot. Apparently the account page...
Tamriel Infinium: How Elder Scrolls Online’s quests go above and beyond the MMO norm
There are some MMOs you play because of and some you play in spite of, if you catch my drift. These titles have great...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
The MOP Up: SMITE delivers a ‘bonus’ update full of nerfs
SMITE delivered a "bonus update" to the MOBA's community this past week with several downward adjustments to various features. Speed buff got nerfed "by...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
Camelot Unchained shows off scads of St’rm, notes new hires, and continues expanding Extraction
Hey friends, do you like playable lizard races? Then you're going to get a cold-blooded kick out of Camelot Unchained's recent newsletter, which focuses...
The MOP Up: Meet Starfall, a new indie Minecraft MMO
So many amazing projects have been birthed from Minecraft over the past decade-plus, including fully formed games. One of the newer of these is...
Dungeons & Dragons’ OGL fiasco ends in victory for third-party content like The Secret World TTRPG
Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro flooped around and found out. As we discussed earlier this month, the stewards of the Dungeons & Dragons...
Vague Patch Notes: Floaty, samey, and janky – a treasury of MMO terms for bad combat
Any time you bring up The Secret World or Secret World Legends's bland, floaty combat, at least one person is going to chime in...
SMITE unveils a Magic The Gathering crossover, a new god, and the Season of Monsters for January 24
Ten years is a major milestone for any game, but it seems a significantly bigger one for MOBAs as very few of them appear...
Vague Patch Notes: Stop taking your released MMOs back to the drawing board
This is not a column about Kingshunt, but it is. It's not a column about Crowfall or Deathverse: Let it Die or even Crucible....
