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Ship of Heroes shares a postmortem for its summer beta and future development plans
The summer beta test for Ship of Heroes has officially wrapped up, and it's time for the devs at Heroic Games to take stock...
World of Warcraft nerfs several Legion raids for solo play
Let's take a moment to close our eyes and think back to several years ago when Legion was the current landscape of World of...
Revelation Online’s Demonic War update shifts to an October release window
Wait, didn't we hear about the Demonic War update for Revelation Online before? Yes, yes we did; back in May 2021, when the update...
The Stream Team: A return to raiding in Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers
It's been a long time -- a number of years to be precise -- since MOP's Chris has done any of the raid level...
WoW Classic releases Overlords of Outland, WoW Patch 9.1.5 undergoes additional testing
The watchword of World of Warcraft this week is "patches." Patches of patches of patches. Miles of patches. Patches of all shapes, sizes, and...
Swords of Legends Online brings extreme dungeons, a hard mode raid, and a Moon Festival tomorrow
The next update arriving to Swords of Legends Online tomorrow, September 16th, could easily be described as having two halves. On the one side,...
Vampire multiplayer survival title V Rising shows off gameplay and plans a 2021 beta
V Rising, the multiplayer vampiric survival title from Stunlock Studios (of Battlerite fame) has been doing a lot of talking to this point. Readers...
Perfect Ten: Shapeshifting classes in MMOs
After my wife and I saw an X-Men movie a while back, we got into a discussion about what mutant power we'd pick for...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s lack of public testing is fine by me
When the Final Fantasy XIV media tour happens, it'll be the first opportunity anyone outside of Square-Enix has gotten to look at anything related...
Twitch unleashes a lawsuit against two alleged hate raid organizers
In August we reported on efforts by streamers to call attention to hate raiding and other forms of harassment targeting Black, POC, and LGBT+...
Lineage II Aden brings the Orc Fortress and World Olympiad with today’s patch
We hope you're ready to fight Flag Guardian Greg in Lineage II Aden. Yes, that's his name. He's Flag Guardian Greg, and he guards the...
Nightmare is a new F2P pixelart MMORPG that’s launched on Steam today
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the launch of a new MMORPG! We're talking about Nightmare, a new open-world retro pixelart MMO from the indie...
The Soapbox: #DayOffTwitch illustrates how good intentions break under bad planning
Those of you reading this probably know me as someone who wears one of three hats here at MOP: a news writer, the Choose...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs begin as they mean to go on?
In Eliot's open letter to new players and vets of Final Fantasy XIV last month, he noted that Final Fantasy XIV's endgame is not...
SoulWorker introduces a new four-player Violent Sun raid in latest update
Players of the action MMO SoulWorker have a new challenge to step up to in the form of the Violent Sun raid, a four-player...
The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s many MMO spin-off digital card games
One thing that I deeply admired about old Sony Online Entertainment was that it strove to experiment, innovate, and take risks. Sometimes those special...
DC Universe Online is fixing episode 41’s endgame source marks situation
As surveys for DC Universe Online continue rolling in, Daybreak and Dimensional Ink are forging ahead with plans for future development, as catalogued in...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ideas that were ahead of their time
I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...
Massively on the Go: Everything we learned from Pokemon Go’s post-backlash Task Force
While Niantic already reverted its Pokemon GOÂ gym and PokeStop nerf in late August, the company said that more changes would be announced on September...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are useless, and that’s completely fine
When you play an MMO, you are developing a skill. That skill is playing that MMO. It's not a skill with a great deal...
