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Some Assembly Required: A trip around the world in Craftopia for materials and exploration’s sake
One of my favorite things to do in survival sandboxes is explore. Now, I admit that I don't get to feed that need very...
First Impressions: Palia is missing the depth MMO life-skillers are hoping for
"Life-sims" are another of those game genres that I like in theory, but less so in practice. Most have graphical styles I find off-putting,...
Singularity 6 interview: Palia is the cozy cottagecore sandbox to beat as it begins closed beta
The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...
Some Assembly Required: Building and fighting to the Industrial Age in Craftopia
As I've written before, I'm pretty much stuck in on Craftopia. The seamless world update has done a lot of good for the sandbox...
Roblox aims to be ‘one of the biggest virtual economies on Earth’ through additional creator monetization tools
Roblox has some immense aspirations for its so-called economy. A blog post from the studio's VP of Economy Enrico D'Angelo offers a broad strokes...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we wanted a decade ago
Back in May, MOP's Justin penned a fun blog piece on his Bio Break blog about the games he wanted all the way back...
The Realm Online’s corporate buyer surfaces with a bizarre website and studio partner
Over the course of June, we learned the sad news that player-led developer Realm Worlds would be shutting down the current version of The...
Battle Bards Episode 226: Echoes of MMOs that never were
It’s always highly bittersweet when MMO fans sit back and consider the games that never were — the projects that got far along in...
Roblox unveils a new categorization for games designed for players age 17 and up
It appears that Roblox is attempting yet another small amount of effort to filter its "experiences," as the player-built games platform unveiled a new...
Lost Skies is bringing back the beloved Worlds Adrift island creator with new features and tools
While Worlds Adrift dropped many balls over the course of its shambolic release, one of its features that was generally beloved by players was...
Whatever happened to Legends of Aria aka Britaria? (2023 edition)
We turn our gaze away for just a little bit and suddenly a tire fire has sprung forth, and that tire fire is named...
Some Assembly Required: Red Dead roleplay servers succeed where Red Dead Online failed
One of my all-time favorite single-player game experiences was Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. The underserved Western genre is beautifully realized in this open-world...
Fall Guys Season 4 arrives May 10 with tools that let players build their own obstacle courses
It sure did feel like Season 3 of Fall Guys went on forever, didn't it? Well we can now all venture a guess as...
Fortnite celebrates Ramadan with Lantern Fest 2023 as players start releasing Unreal Creator content
The celebration of Ramadan might primarily be about introspection and religious restraint, but it also is marked with lanterns lighting the streets, and it's...
FTC finalizes fine for Fortnite’s dark patterns as Epic talks up NFT ‘games’ on EGS
Usually when people says things are going "pretty well," your first sympathetic instinct is to ask about what might be troubling them; those words...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
Some Assembly Required: My journey through the housing system of Final Fantasy XIV
It took me years - literal years - but I landed a personal house in Final Fantasy XIV. Not an apartment, not a room...
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...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022
2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...
