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One Shots: Don’t move or Kris Kringle gets it!
Even though it's the apocalypse, it doesn't mean we have to cancel Christmas! That's the message coming through loud and clear as our jolly...
Elder Scrolls Online’s 10th anniversary fizzles as ZeniMax cancels its North American meetup
Hope you weren't planning on attending the big anniversary bash finale for The Elder Scrolls Online because ZeniMax Online Studios just abruptly canceled it.
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Ubisoft shareholders are apparently still in buyout negotiations – under Guillermot family control
Rumors of an Ubisoft buyout have popped up multiple times in recent memory - in fact, the last one was back in October, when Bloomberg...
Final Fantasy XIV continues to offer new Endwalker stories to players
Every year, Final Fantasy XIV offers players a set of short fiction pieces on the site for the game's anniversary, exploring little spaces that...
Design Mockument: In defense of visual ability customization in MMORPGs
I will never know who it was working behind the scenes at City of Heroes who first had the idea to let players customize...
Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
Warframe’s Tennobaum gifting event this year benefits Toys for Tots
As it has for the last many years, Warframe studio Digital Extremes has kicked off its Tennobaum event, prompting gift-giving for the benefit of...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
DC Universe Online’s new leadership teases new content format and event system in 2025
We don't know whether anyone but us has noticed this, but Daybreak is having one hell of a week with content or announcements for...
Final Fantasy XIV community institutes new world first rules after players use add-ons to cheat (again)
For players who claim to have the highest levels of skill in Final Fantasy XIV, it's extremely fascinating that members of this facet of...
Ubisoft is shuttering XDefiant already, along with multiple studios – around 277 workers affected
Dreadful news for XDefiant fans and Ubisoft workers tonight: The game is closing down permanently, and several hundred Ubisoft employees are being laid off.
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DC Universe Online kicks off its Christmas event, Season’s Greedings
If you're a superhero MMORPG fan, you're getting no fewer than two big holiday events this week, and the first is upon us now...
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away class style packs for its anniversary – but there’s a catch
As Elder Scrolls Online pushes into the final month of its year-long 10th anniversary celebration, it has one more promo for players... or at...
The Stream Team: On the Gold Road again in Elder Scrolls Online
Fate has intervened again, and MJ has arrived in Elder Scrolls Online's West Weald to figure out how to stop the Deadric Prince of Paths (who apparently still doesn't have her memories) from messing up the world. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. to find out in Paths of Chaos.
Digital Extremes talks up Warframe 1999’s new PvPvE mode, confirms delay for boy band boss fights
Warframe developer Digital Extremes is continuing to stir the hype pot for its Warframe: 1999 update release as the studio's final devstream of the...
Wisdom of Nym: The myth of Final Fantasy XIV’s budget
Let's put this front and center just to start things off because I'm annoyed: Final Fantasy XIV is not a game that is single-handedly...
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
The Stream Team: Post-holidays with family in Final Fantasy XIV
While Thanksgiving is technically over, MOP's Chris is continuing to feel the holiday mood of togetherness here on OPTV, and that means it's time...
PSA: Warframe’s Digital Extremes made its 2008 third-person shooter Dark Sector free for a limited time
Most of the time people associate Digital Extremes with the action multiplayer looter shooter Warframe, but it also created a third-person action shooter called...
Perfect Ten: Lessons from unsuccessful MMORPGs that I wish designers would learn
I have been writing about this genre for far too long now and seen far too many games with genuinely good elements completely fail...
