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Project Friendship, Spry Fox’s new cozy MMO, just opened tester signups
Way back in 2021, we first caught wind that indie developer Spry Fox was hiring for a new "non-violent" MMO, essentially a cozy game....
Netflix documentary chronicles a World of Warcraft player’s passing – and his impact on the community
We all know that one of the best things about MMORPGs is finding the right kind of community and the human connections that can...
Perfect Ten: 10 times MMOs appeared in TV and movies
It's always surreal when real MMOs cross the divide between niche and mainstream to be referenced in television and films. Depending on how you...
Microsoft prepares price hikes for Xbox Game Pass this fall
If you've been using Xbox Games Pass to access your MMOs and other online games, steel yourself for a significant price hike. Microsoft is...
EA wants to try in-game advertising again, but promises a ‘thoughtful’ approach this time
This year has already provided all kinds of CEO-level lunacy, so what's one more to the pile, right? This latest case of C-suite brainworm...
Casually Classic: Is it worth playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic?
Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there's nothing on that would hit the...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Wildmender, Kaetram, and Kingdom the Blood
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time around we're checking out an...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024
For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...
Vague Patch Notes: The ever-changing costs of playing an MMORPG
It was a pretty big deal back when I had first started working at original Massively when the trend started, and I can still...
Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs
There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...
Fight or Kite: Hands-on with Waven, Ankama’s new tactical card-driven MMO
I was provided an especially exciting treat this week. Anyone who’s been following the Fight or Kite column this year, even in passing, would...
One Shots: Judge Dreadfully Polite
Sure, any time that I wear a helmet that masks my eyes and makes me look like an oppressive trooper, I stop getting invited...
Wisdom of Nym: Recurring Final Fantasy XIV systems we could probably get rid of
At this point, Final Fantasy XIV has had a long time to get into a pretty reliable cadence that has not changed substantially beyond...
Perfect Ten: 10 dead MMOs that should be revived for a second chance
I have always felt that it's such an enormous waste of everything when a live MMORPG is sunsetted and access to it is gone...
Cyberpunk 2077 class action lawsuit is finally settled for $1.85M
Remember when Cyberpunk 2077 was poised to be the next huge thing in CRPGs? And then all it seemed to do was give Keanu...
Netflix acquires cozy game dev studio Spry Fox, which promises work on non-violent MMO will continue
Last January we had gotten word that developer Spry Fox, the studio behind cozy games like Road Not Taken and Cozy Grove, was working...
Riot Games’ animated series Arcane wins Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program
It would appear that fans weren't the only ones who enjoyed Arcane, the animated series based on some of the narrative beats in League...
Riot Games’ League of Legends show garners two Emmy nods
Riot Games' first foray into the television sphere wasn't just a crowd-pleasing success -- it's proven to be a critical one as well. With...
The MOP Up: Profane uses Instant Terra to create rapid landscapes
Upcoming MMORPG Profane revealed that it's elected to use Wysilab's Instant Terra technology to help create procedurally generated landscapes for the game world. The...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO grudges we just can’t let go
Back in April, MMO Fallout's Connor and I had a lil tweet convo about grudges. He was joking that there will be aged gamers...
