Diablo IV’s paid beta wraps up this afternoon as players warn about GPU bricking issues
So how was your weekend in Diablo IV? We've been covering the pre-order beta over the past couple of days, noting both initial teething...
Destiny 2 players mourn the death of Lance Reddick, longtime voice of Commander Zavala
Just a few nights ago, my husband and I were chatting about how good Lance Reddick sounded as Commander Zavala in Destiny 2's Lightfall....
The Daily Grind: When do you consider an MMO to be truly ‘dead’?
Back in February, MOP's Eliot penned a piece about the different types of MMO sunsets. I want to follow this thinking further and talk...
Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
Star Citizen remains offline as issues related to alpha 3.18 escalate the problem to a ‘major outage’
We're following up on the catastrophic launch of Star Citizen alpha 3.18, which arrived this past weekend with a litany of problems for players...
SMITE studio promises to hunt and ban accounts tied to a harassment campaign that targeted women
Titan Forge Games, aka the Hi-Rez Studios team behind SMITE, are making it very plain that targeted harassment will not be tolerated. The studio...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Swordsman X Survival, Legend of Lunia, and X8
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's random and recurring roundup of a few MMOs you've never heard of! Maybe you've heard of some of them. You're...
Lord of the Rings Online players are putting on a 30-person adaptation of Sondheim’s Into the Woods this weekend
One of my favorite memories in MMOs is participating in plays and musicals, something I first saw people doing in Ultima Online in 1997...
Blizzard commissioned artists to paint an entire chapel with Diablo IV’s gothic art
Blizzard is chugging along the train tracks to Diablo IV's beta this month with a drop of several new trailers and a new AMA...
Guild Wars 2 player provides a candid cautionary tale about in-game gambling addiction
There is an unfortunate number of methods (read: more than zero) that MMO gaming monetization nears real-life casino gambling, from lootboxes to gacha mechanics...
Chronicles of Elyria boss justifies website rebuilding, communication, and re-opening the Discord
Last month, Soulbound Studios' Jeromy Walsh wrote another long-form address discussing the merging of design documents for Kingdoms of Elyria and its erstwhile (i.e.,...
Mortal Online 2’s next livestream will give away a GPU and highlight upcoming new magic spells
Would you like to win a beefy new graphics card for simply watching a Mortal Online 2 livestream? Then you'll want to hop in...
New World answers community questions with its latest developer video
Do you want to hear the New World developers admit they screwed up? Because that's the answer to the first question in the newest...
Profane offers a look at new structures, a territory owning altar, and dev roadmap updates
Insane Studio has heralded Profane as an MMO about domination, territory holding, and PvP, but many of the previews out of the game have...
RuneScape will be getting quest list filtering and sorting updates thanks to a game jam test
Last October the devs of RuneScape took a break from updating the MMORPG to work on personal projects related to the title in an...
Overwatch 2 players question Season 3 balance, find an invincible statue, and beg for a Mei-killing homing grenade
Yes, we appreciate that headline is a melange of weird and disparate pieces of Overwatch 2 news, but some of these things are a...
X-LEGEND confirms its plans for a global re-launch of Eden Eternal
Earlier in the week Redditors discovered some indications that Eden Eternal was on its way to a return following its closure by Gamigo. We...
RF Online’s western version has been sunsetted thanks to an apparent contract issue
News coming out of the sci-fi MMO RF Online has mostly been a trickle of headlines - the last report involved Korean developer CCR...
Grand Fantasia and Aura Kingdom both make a bumpy return under X-LEGEND’s stewardship
Before we leap into this story, a quick recap: Both Aura Kingdom and Grand Fantasia were in a state of limbo when Gamigo elected...
Old school pixel art MMORPG Tales of Yore adds more cosmetics, treasure maps, and procedural missions
Last month we cast a spotlight on Tales of Yore, a 2-D pixel art sandbox MMORPG that promised a "lightweight" but rich world full...
