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Craftopia focuses primarily on bug fixing in its most recent patches
With JPRG-like survival sandbox Craftopia now in early access, the focus of developer Pocket Pair has turned almost exclusively to attacking bugs in the...
The Game Archaeologist: Mirrorworld
In this column, we have previously journeyed to lands where you saw not with your eyes, but with your imagination. I speak, of course,...
Classic Super Mario Bros. gameplay goes battle royale with Super Mario Bros. 35
Not even the venerable gaming classic Super Mario Bros. is safe from the battle royale sub-genre, it seems. It's time to say hello to...
Minecraft-built MMO Hegemony releases the Traders from the East expansion on September 6
Hegemony, the self-described "classic" sandbox MMORPG built upon the framework of Minecraft, is expanding. As in literally releasing an expansion. Or at least an...
Global Chat: Is MMO crafting obsolete?
Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...
The Elder Scrolls Online celebrates the Imperial City with bonus PvP and PvE rewards
The Elder Scrolls Online is apparently going to celebrate the Imperial City of the game's fiction by having people fight Daedra and one another....
Battle Bards Episode 175: Prehistoric jams
Having perfected their musical time machine, the Battle Bards leap back to the past to enjoy the soundscapes of dinosaurs and other prehistoric denizens....
The Game Archaeologist: Flagship’s Mythos
Whenever the topic of Flagship Studios comes up, usually it's in conjunction with Hellgate: London. And while Hellgate certainly was a huge and ultimately...
Massively Overthinking: Mixing and matching the best crafting systems in the MMO ‘verse
Longtime MOP reader Ken from Chicago recently asked us to talk about crafting - but he didn't want us to just list off the...
Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs
Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...
Shocking almost no one, Dragon’s Prophet was yeeted off Steam
So, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there's a Dragon's Prophet emulator out there that's been...
Social scientists study Minecraft and One Hour One Life communities
You might think scientists would balk at the idea of using online gaming communities as a test bed for study, given those communities'... strong...
The Stream Team: Star-studded fun in Trove’s Lunar Plunge
There's a new Lunar Plunge event in Trove, and there's no way Massively OP's MJ is going to miss the chance to catch some...
Trove has a celestial summer with the launch of the Lunar Plunge event
It's about time to reach for the stars -- quite literally -- in Trove as the game kicks off the Lunar Plunge event where...
Trove interview: Gamigo on console’s future, Bomber Royale, and the next class for a revamp
With Trove's fifth birthday and its Delves expansion now behind it, we're curious about what's next for the game. Gamigo's Cornelia and Coby -...
Lord of the Rings Online community reschedules Weatherstock for September
In hindsight, Lord of the Rings Online's greatest annual player concert series couldn't have picked a worse time to try to host the event....
Battle Bards Episode 174: Dragon Oath
Running from 2007 to 2016, ChangYou’s Dragon Oath is probably one of those MMORPGs you’ve never heard of, nevermind actually played. Yet when Syl...
The Game Archaeologist: Clone Wars Adventures, the Star Wars MMO everyone kinda forgot
Whenever the topic -- the argument -- of Star Wars MMOs arises, the debate is usually between the merits of the sandboxy Star Wars...
Dragon’s Prophet’s new Steam entry is not a legitimate revival, Runewaker says
We've updated the end of this piece with the latest info as of July 31st.
MMO gamers were bummed back in May when Gamigo sunsetted...
Curse of Aros is a retro-styled mobile MMO of dungeon delves and monster loot
Remember how we pointed out the 16-bit-styled MMO DarkStory? Kind of looked like fun, right? If you're looking for a similarly-styled MMO package on...
