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Perfect Ten: Ten reasons Fallout 76 is good, actually
Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...
Bit Legends is a new retro-pixel mobile MMO featuring both PvE and PvP
So, who wanted a new mobile MMO? What if I tell you it's stuffed with retro graphics and is a bit different from the...
The Game Archaeologist: World War II Online
The 1990s saw the rise of flight simulators that thrived on detailed, complicated controls and handling. Such games threw out accessibility and casual-friendliness for...
The Stream Team: Celebrating 5 years of Trove
Today, Trove turns five years old! And Massively OP's MJ knows that five-year-olds get the best birthdays. There's the Sunfest celebration, a bonfire, and...
Trove celebrates its fifth birthday with Delves on console and Sunfest for all
I can hardly believe that Trove - the toy that was created in a Trion office by devs on their breaks and eventually turned...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Deadside, The Isle, Minions of Elden, Dekaron M, Ragnarok Origin, TitanReach
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've (probably) never heard of!
We'll start with Deadside, which is definitely in the...
The MOP Up: Roblox players spend over $1.5 billion to date
With a record-breaking haul of $100 million in May, Roblox crossed the $1.5 billion threshold in terms of the game's revenue to date. A...
Voxelbox Staxel discusses work on its console port and confirms a new area coming to PC
Let's take a peek in to the adorable retro voxelbox Staxel, shall we? When we last reported on this one, it successfully stepped out...
Fallout 76 blasts off into season one today
With a retro board game theme and an eye to drawing players back into the game, Fallout 76's first season officially kicks off today....
The Game Archaeologist: When World of Warcraft opened Ahn’Qiraj’s gates
This past month, Blizzard has been testing what might well be the milestone moment for World of Warcraft Classic: The Ahn'Qiraj gates event. In...
SuperData May 2020: Pokémon Go and World of Warcraft improve their fortunes
Superdata's May digital games earning report is out, and there is some interesting movement for some of our favorite online games.
World of Warcraft's western...
The Game Archaeologist: The virtual worlds of the 1990s
With the increased speeds of modems and the move into 3-D space in the 1990s, some game designers thought it was a logical conclusion...
Global Chat: Do numbers rob MMOs of fun?
Have developers and players grown so used to mechanics and number crunching that we've collectively lost something important along the way? That's the concern...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Past Fate, Damascus, Rise in Time, and Infinite Fleet
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs (and MMO-adjacent titles) you've never heard of!
Remember Past Fate? It made it into this roundup last...
Massively Overthinking: Do you keep MMOs installed for the login freebies?
MOP reader Styopa proposed this fun topic for Massively Overthinking this week, prompted, he said, by Standing Stone Games' recent promotions for Lord of...
The Stream Team: Starting Trove’s Splendid Summer Event
What, you thought it was just spring? Get with the times! It's summer now! At least it is in Trove event time: The Splendid...
Trove’s ‘splendid summer event’ is live today with a new quest track
Gamigo is giving a smidge of love to more than ArcheAge this week: Trove is getting in on the summer fun with a new...
The Game Archaeologist: Were sequels ever a good idea for MMOs?
From movies to books to video games, sequels (and all related spin-offs) are a common sight when a property is sufficiently successful enough. Even...
Massively Overthinking: Deleting pieces of MMOs to save them
Two ideas floated across my virtual desk in recent weeks, neither directly relating to MMORPGs, but they put the nugget of an idea in...
Gamigo’s tree planting charity drive ends with over 111,000 trees planted
The reforestation charity drive that Gamigo kicked off in April has finally ended with a resounding success. According to a press release, the drive...
