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Perfect Ten: MMOs for puzzle lovers
Ever find yourself complaining that all of the PvE content in your MMO is nothing but shooting something in the face or chopping down...
Free Realms Sunrise devs show off incredible progress in bringing back a sunsetted MMO
Free Realms is dead -- long live Free Realms Sunrise!
For the past few years, this emulator project has endeavored to return the beloved family...
Chronicles of Elyria kicks off land selection starting on April 29
At long last, Chronicles of Elyria is ready to start a good old-fashioned land rush. Sort of, at least. It won't be in-game because...
LOTRO announces Rohan housing while DDO is slated to get a 64-bit client
Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online players have plenty to look forward to in their near and far future, especially...
Ashes of Creation gets into the nitty-gritty of node operations
It's been "node this" and "node that" with Ashes of Creation these past couple of weeks, but with an in-depth Q&A session with the...
Wisdom of Nym: All of the shards in Final Fantasy XIV
Look, the date of this article is a complete coincidence. Obviously, we're going to the First in Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion. We know that...
Global Chat: Looking back at 20 years of EverQuest
EverQuest's 20th anniversary isn't going unnoticed and unobserved in the gaming community this month. In fact, several MMO bloggers have raised a glass to...
Survival MMO Population Zero dishes on guilds and crafting workbenches
Survival sandbox MMO Population Zero is continuing its information barrage this week with another dev blog and Reddit Q&A intended to shed some light...
R64 springs into Shroud of the Avatar with city buffs, player dungeon changes, and killer bunnies
Developers of Shroud of the Avatar are still working hard on the Top-10 priorities they mentioned in the Q1 update schedule. Today, they released...
Massively Overthinking: Designed downtime in MMORPGs
In a Daily Grind not long ago, MOP reader Armsbend said something I thought just cried out for discussion. After noting that he had...
Ultima Online’s Rising Tide update launches today with improved ship combat, vet rewards, and kitchens
At the beginning of 2019, Broadsword announced big things for Ultima Online: an entire year of content on the high seas, inspired by the...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the Tokyo Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival
This one feels as if it took half of forever. Combined with the leaks, the lack of hints, the speculation, and the general lack...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs as distraction vs. culture
Earlier this month, there was a fascinating conversation swirling around a Gamasutra article by Bryant Francis, specifically a quote from game dev Patric Mondou. "We're moving away...
LOTRO’s progression server unlocks Moria this Thursday
A week after Lord of the Rings Online spent several consecutive days in the dark, the Tolkien MMORPG is preparing to send players into...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 211: Carrying the Torchlight
Justin and Bree deep-dive Torchlight Frontiers and discuss Path of Exile's Synthesis, the great LOTRO and DDO outage of 2019, the impending end of Kritika Online and the Foundry system in Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2's warclaw, Alganon, and a mailbag topic about housing in MMOs.
Legends of Aria is working to fix a nasty bug putting player homes into foreclosure
If you thought you were coming to virtual worlds to avoid the stresses of real life - like, say, paying off your mortgage -...
One Shots: Rack ’em up!
I have to say that I would be much more likely to take up the crimefighting life if there was a really hip rec...
The Daily Grind: If MMOs scaled back on combat, what should fill that space?
I know that I'm not the first or the last person to accuse modern MMOs of being far to combat-centric in their design, but...
Massively Overthinking: The paradox MMO
Back in February, the MMORPG subreddit offered up yet another fun thread: User Friendly_Fire told the MMO community that what it really wants is...
The MOP Up: Space Engineers jury-rigs a release
Everyone knows that engineers are the unsung heroes of civilization, and space engineers doubly so! So join us in saluting Space Engineers, the survival...
