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Perfect Ten: The 10 most adorable MMORPGs ever
We all like to think of ourselves as cultured and deep individuals who routinely calculate square roots and recite Gilbert and Sullivan at dinner...
Diablo III adds new Torment levels, introduces season 17 buff in latest patch
The latest update for Diablo III is live on PC and consoles, and it's full of terrible torment and bovine bedlam, among other things....
Torchlight Frontiers’ alpha plans major skill and leveling overhaul for May 21
Perfect World and Echtra Games are continuing efforts on Torchlight Frontiers' alpha, announcing this week that the next big patch is coming to testers...
Diablo III’s Season of Nightmares arrives this week
When's the last time that you were excited about Diablo III? It's been a pretty quiet spring for the ARPG, but Blizzard is about...
Path of Exile studio says it has no plans to make other games right now
Path of Exile's Grinding Gear Games has been tearing up the forums and Reddit addressing its playerbase's big questions lately - it even prompted...
The Stream Team: Hoping for a Path of Exile hideout
In all her Path of Exile, playing Massively OP's MJ has yet to actually get a hideout. MJ, without housing?! Yes, we know it's...
Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games earns respect by showing respect
This is Grinding Gear Games.
Grinding Gear Games recently acknowledged that some Path of Exile players were unhappy about a few topics and accepted responsibility,...
Lost Ark unveils its latest Korean roadmap – including a new continent
Sad news for Lost Ark fans; not only does the latest roadmap not include any definitive information about when the game will be localized for...
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...
Path of Exile rolls out patch 3.6.4 with performance improvements and bug fixes
The team behind Path of Exile is hard at work on the game's next expansion, but that doesn't mean that no one is paying attention...
Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts
The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less...
Torchlight Frontiers player releases online fort-planning tool – time to map out your base
One of the features that rocketed Torchlight Frontiers to the top of my watch list last year was the promise of a type of...
Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot
Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably...
Into the Super-verse: Six things that made Marvel Heroes great
With all of the City of Heroes revival talk lately, our office chat turned in the direction of other MMOs we'd love to see...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG benefits most from its IP?
We have certainly debated the downsides of basing MMOs on established intellectual properties, most namely the danger of having the license pulled and the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 218: A pretty darn good week
Justin and Bree discuss City of Heroes, Atlas Reactor, Peria Chronicles, Torchlight Frontiers, Caravan Stories, Villagers & Heroes, and Star Trek Online.
The Stream Team: Creating chaos in Path of Exile
Path of Exile's Synthesis League is trucking along, as is the Chaos Witch of Massively OP's MJ. She's never played with chaos before, and...
Torchlight’s alpha patch tomorrow is gonna be off the rails
Furbish up your Arc clients, folks: Torchlight Frontiers' alpha is gearing up for a big patch tomorrow, the star of which is surely the...
1998’s Lineage finally adopts free-to-play in Korea
It's one of the oldest continually running graphical MMORPGs -- and also one of the last free-to-play holdouts in the industry. That last part...
The MOP Up: Population Zero throws a fashion show
You know how people advise you to "dress in layers" during inclement weather? And you think, "If I'm wearing pants, I'm doing well here,...
