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Pokemon Go heralds 40-player Gigantamax battles, but Niantic is mum on global/local requirements
Pokemon Go fans better be bracing for a big announcement and a world of confusion, as Niantic and The Pokemon Company officially announced that...
Tarisland warns players to grab Season 0 rewards by October 21
Season 1: Blight Dragon Elegy is coming to Tarisland on October 22nd, which means that the MMO's pre-season, Season 0, is wrapping up soon...
New World details new artifacts and last-minute PvP tweaks ahead of Aeternum
As we wait for the New World downtime tonight, Amazon has posted another dev blog detailing some of the changes players can expect when...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s DPS jobs need a balance pass post-Dawntrail
Balance at the start of a new expansion is always really hard. It's not impossible, but the Final Fantasy XIV team has an uphill...
Sil and the Fading World is an upcoming ARPG that pits solo players against MMO raid bosses
We obviously are about MMORPGs, MMOs, and multiplayer gaming here at MOP, but as we've demonstrated before, we're not averse to highlighting games that...
EverQuest kicks off Nights of the Dead, EverQuest II begins spooky season
Feel that chill in the air and scent of pumpkin spice? That's Halloween coming to take over all your MMORPGs for the next few...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends expands the Galactic Moon Festival for Halloween 2024
One of the oldest - and goofiest - MMORPG Halloween events has returned today thanks to player-run Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends:...
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
Tarisland’s Blight Dragon Elegy raid blog is its weirdest lore dump yet
Before you ask: No, we still don't know when in October Tarisland's Blight Dragon Elegy and first proper season are launching, but no matter...
World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary update goes live on October 22
World of Warcraft players now have a hard date for Update 11.0.5, which is coming in less than two weeks on October 22nd. The...
Tarisland provides a video overview of Season One as the pre-season Eve Carnival event begins
Whether you want to call it a season or a large content update, Tarisland is continuing to bang the drum over its upcoming Blight...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile 2 prepares to talk about early access
While it feels like we've been waiting ages for Path of Exile 2, it's actually on the way, and sooner than one might think....
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases Myth Drannor raid and welcomes this year’s Night Revels
What's spookier for you this year: The dead rising from the grave or a raid that's going to replenish those graves with the corpses...
Casually Classic: World of Warcraft’s delves have real evergreen potential
Ever since World of Warcraft released back in 2004, there's been an tension in this game between casual, solo play and hardcore group progression. It was...
Finally, we know what to expect from Pokemon Go’s Wild Area event in November
Despite Niantic announcing the event months ago, Pokemon Go's upcoming Wild Area event has until now been opaque to players. The studio initially said...
LOTRO: Legacy of Morgoth opens expansion pre-orders, aims for November 6 launch
Lord of the Rings Online's southward expansion aims to continue into the deserts of Harad next month when Legacy of Morgoth releases. Standing Stone...
EverQuest II opens preorders for its November Scars of Destruction expansion
If there's one constant in the MMORPG genre, it's the comforting knowledge that the EverQuest franchise is going to pump out two expansions in...
New World deep-dives its first-ever 10-player raid, going live with Aeternum
With New World's Aeternum release a couple weeks away, it's still hard to sort through all of the hype and promotion to know what's...
Destiny 2 maps out updates to raids and dungeons arriving with its Codename Frontiers releases
The top of September saw Destiny 2 outline its broad strokes plan for content over the next two years, couching the whole thing under...
Wisdom of Nym: The key takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads update live letter
I can't believe that after we've gone so many different places, at long last, Final Fantasy XIV is going to have Soken do a...