OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”
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Diablo IV spruces up its looks, Diablo Immortal drops its first 2024 update, and Hearthstone updates its core set
Blizzard's being quite the busy little bee this week, so let's check in with the studio's multiplayer titles to see what's happening lately.
Diablo Immortal...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 463: WoW’s pirates storm the gangplank
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta delay, and New World's next season, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, The Sims 4, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on rekindling the social magic of old MMORPGs.
Blizzard’s Diablo IV gets a visual glow-up this week
While nobody's ever described Diablo IV as a "beautiful" game, it's certainly visually striking in some regards. Yet Blizzard isn't content with the graphical...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most macabre thing you’ve done or seen in an MMORPG?
MJ's coverage of the new gravedigging mechanics in Path of Exile (bury corpses of whole families together for a stat boost!) got me thinking...
Last Epoch writes a postmortem about its bumpy online launch and the lessons learned
Things may have leveled off for the online multiplayer experience in Last Epoch, but that certainly wasn't the case in the OARPG's first week,...
Wandering Wraeclast: Create your own graveyard with Path of Exile’s new Necropolis league
You've heard all about Path of Exile 2's news during Grinding Gear Games’ big development update livestream last night, so now it's time to...
Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile 2 showcases the Ranger, announces beta delay and June alpha
The wheels of Grinding Gear Games' Path of Exile 2 info machine are moving, and we are here for it! Earlier this week, I...
Kakao Q4 2023: ArcheAge 2 has been delayed (again), now to some point in or after 2025
Our eyes must have glazed over the Q4 2023 investor report from Kakao when it dropped a few weeks ago, but it contained some...
Diablo Immortal’s 2024 roadmap promises new class, new zone, and several gameplay updates
What does the road ahead look like for Diablo Immortal? Why don't you read a map, pal? A roadmap. Here, we'll even give you...
Blizzard is massively revamping Diablo IV’s itemization systems
If you had two hours to spare last night, then hopefully you spent it on something more fun than watching video game streams, but...
Global Chat: EverQuest hits the quarter-century mark
There's no way that The Ancient Gaming Noob would miss out on EverQuest's 25th anniversary: "So there is a lot going on if you...
Smilegate surveils the astrological features of Lost Ark’s in-game lore
OK, listen. Astronomy is real. Astrology is not real. Video game astrology is... also not real, but at least it's harmless and no sillier...
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....
Lost Ark’s Breaker and fresh catch-up mechanics arrive in tomorrow’s Break Through to Thaemine
"Break Through to Thaemine" may not exactly roll off the tongue, but it's rolling out to Lost Ark's live servers tomorrow anyway. And headlining...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Evil v Evil, Blood Strike, Solium Infernum
Welcome back to another roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you've (probably) never heard of and we need to at least...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World sells a monster 25M copies
Capcom's Monster Hunter World is a force of nature unto itself, with the boss-slaying game topping 25 million units sold and setting a record...
Whatever happened to Torchlight III aka Torchlight Frontiers?
The other day we were reminiscing about the beloved Torchlight franchise in the MassivelyOP office and ended up wondering what happened to its third...
Mad World’s latest patch adds party recruitment feature, UI updates, and gameplay tweaks
While Mad World doesn't have a group finder in the usual sense, it does have a party recruitment tool as of the OARPG's latest...
Zenith Infinite Realms adds new course layouts, fixes bugs, and makes sure its cash shop is working
Zenith Infinite Realms - the obstacle course-filled OARPG side piece that Ramen VR put out last month, not the virtual reality MMORPG that players...
Some Lost Ark servers were down nearly two days for merge issues, but everything’s back up now
It's finally over, at least until the next round of merges this summer: Lost Ark is now fully back online after nearly two days...
