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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Lost Ark’s Winter Soloist update is live with a solo mode expansion and the new ‘destined protection’ system
Lost Ark's big winter update, Winter Soloist, is officially here today, and that's not a reference to music: It's the introduction to an infusion...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
Corepunk’s servers have been offline for nearly three days as a result of database and infrastructure issues
This week has been a rough one for those who were hoping to play Corepunk, as an attempt by Artificial Core to put out...
Path of Exile 2 is adding inter-map fast-travel and a bunch of buffs and nerfs in its next update
As I type this, more than half of Path of Exile 2's peak Steam concurrency was playing the game - well over 300,000 humans...
Lost Ark details new raids and dynamic raid difficulty and the Wild Soul class in latest roadmap
Lost Ark promised a roadmap update by year's end, and sure enough, it delivered: The latest content roadmap from Amazon Games shares some early...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
Blizzard roundup: Diablo IV’s treasure goblins, Overwatch 2 x The Last Airbender, and Diablo Immortal’s Diablo boss
If that headline seems like it's a big ol' pile of stuff, well, you're not wrong: Blizzard's variety of games are adding all kinds...
All the big MMO and multiplayer news from The Game Awards 2024
If you watched the 10th annual Game Awards tonight - perhaps alongside Chris and MJ - then you probably don't need this post. But...
Lost Ark promises an upcoming roadmap and its final update for the year
The good news is that Lost Ark is not only going to release a roadmap for the next few months of game updates, but...
Path of Exile 2 is scrambling to hire more support folks following its massive early access launch
Grinding Gear Games warned Path of Exile 2 players ahead of early access that the first era of the game might be a little...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 497: Walking down the Path of Exile 2
Justin and Bree discuss Path of Exile 2's early access, Elder Scrolls Online weird event snafu, EverQuest's The Outer Brood, and ArcheAge's second sunset of the year, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the normalization of bad MMO monetization and why some gamers melt down over every bit of MMO news.
Path of Exile 2 plans to change dodge rolling, rewards, and checkpoints as it nerfs an over-performing build
Path of Exile 2 is in early access, so obviously things are going to change; it's just a question of whether or not those...
The Stream Team: Pouncing on Path of Exile 2
It's here! It's here! Massively OP's MJ has been eagerly awaiting the release of Path of Exile 2, and now it's finally here for...
Marvel Rivals’ similarity to Overwatch apparently annoyed former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra
It's not too much of a surprise that NetEase's free-to-play superhero shooter Marvel Rivals is being compared to Blizzard's Overwatch; the DNA is clear...
Path of Exile 2 wrestles with database issues and half a million Steam concurrent players
So how did your early access to Path of Exile 2 go? Because in the macrocosm sense, it was an extremely busy start to...
Overwatch 2 starts Season 14, Diablo Immortal preps the Diablo fight, Hearthstone opens the Technotavern
It's time for another gaggle of Blizzard news, friends! Is it a gaggle? Perhaps it's a pile? A bunch? A chili bowl? However you...
Path of Exile 2 warns of launch queues and server issues as preorders surpass one million
Man, I wouldn't want to be an RPG or MMO launching right about now because everything's about to get wrecked by Path of Exile...
Marvel Heroes emulator project gets loot updates and functioning missions in 0.4.0 build
The long and hard work of getting Marvel Heroes back into a functional state for emulator runners pushes forth, as the 0.4.0 version of...
