OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”
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The MOP Up: World War II hands over toolsets to players
World War II Online is renewing a focus to be "player-driven" by giving all high-level premium players a High Command toolset to fiddle around...
Diablo II: Resurrected adds a queue timer and a scaling limit game creation
Nobody likes to wait in line, especially to play a game that you paid for, so hopefully the latest patch applied to Diablo II:...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
First Impressions: Lost Ark’s beta version feels like the MMOARPG for folks who are bad at ARPGs
I’ve probably started and restarted this impressions piece about three different times now, primarily because I’m not entirely sure where to begin with Lost...
Path of Exile continues to patch in Scourge improvements and shows off monstrous concept art
Path of Exile is just full of patches to the recently released Scourge league, and the game's latest posts have patching on the brain....
Snag yourself a Steam key for Lost Ark’s closed beta slated for November 4 [Second batch now gone too!]
Unless you're living under a rock, you know that Amazon is prepping Lost Ark's closed beta for November 4th. And we're guessing you're anxious...
Lost Ark will support 34 more countries at launch – Belgium and The Netherlands aren’t among them
Good news, global MMORPG players: Lost Ark is expanding its global reach beyond North America and Europe.
"To ensure that this beloved game can be...
Diablo III’s upcoming season offers Soul Shards system and item changes
Wait, didn't jamming a shard of one of the Prime Evils of Hell into yourself get proven to be a bad thing? Regardless, the...
Hearthstone teases Deadmines mini-set’s November 2 arrival, Diablo II Resurrected promises lots of fixes
This little bundle of news is for those who like whimsical online CCGs or remasters of old ARPGs that are full of bugs. We're...
Vampire ARPG V Rising takes you into its gothic world with a new trailer
Stop us if you've heard this pitch before: An online action-RPG in which players adventure through a gothic world clicking frantically and looting every...
Diablo Immortal launches closed beta today as Blizzard’s pre-investor call infodump continues
I joked to my husband this morning that Blizzard has been all over the map this week, with a critical investor call looming on...
WoW Factor: BlizzCon is BlizzGone, so what’s next for WoW?
If you needed a sign of just how bad things were getting at Blizzard HQ, that sign came with the announcement that BlizzConline was...
Blizzard fully assimilates Diablo II: Resurrected’s Vicarious Visions
It's always with a vague sense of unease that we witness studios acquired by larger game developers and then, more often than not, completely...
Lost Ark plots a course for beta, lays out its monetization and currency plans
Amazon-published Korean MMORPG Lost Ark published two documents for prospective players this week, addressing both how the upcoming closed beta will play out as...
Path of Exile’s Scourge launch sees concurrency numbers near its all-time highest point
When Path of Exile's Scourge expansion went live this past Friday, we noted how the previous expansion didn't exactly light fans on fire and...
Path of Exile’s Scourge expansion is officially launching this afternoon
If we're being honest, Path of Exile's last expansion, Expedition, did not go well: It was widely perceived as a killjoy expansion and saw...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 343: Mysterious and spoopy
Justin and Bree discuss Halloween MMOs, Path of Exile, Star Trek Online, Book of Travels' early access, DDO's freebies, LOTRO's latest patch, and the FFXIV Endwalker media tour, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, New World, and Book of Travels, plus a mailbag question on orbital video game enjoyment.
Lost Ark dates its closed beta for November 4 featuring new content and new level caps
We've still got a long way to go before Lost Ark decides to become a released thing here on our shores, but perhaps the...
Minecraft Dungeons announces seasonal content, a battle pass, and Halloween
It's maybe not the biggest update that the multiplayer ARPG Minecraft Dungeons is going to ever see, but it is an update all the...
PWE has put Torchlight, Torchlight II, and Torchlight III on sale for the franchise’s 12th birthday
It's hard for me to even look at the word Torchlight nowadays without thinking about all the lost potential of Torchlight III and Torchlight...
