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Massively Overthinking: Do MMOs need ‘adult’ character customization?
A Random MMO Fan recently wrote to us with a fun topic, linking to an article about Cyberpunk 2077's ESRB rating, which is apparently...
Working as Intended: The big list of City of Heroes rogue servers, 2020 edition
It's been a weird and wonderful year for City of Heroes fans. In April of 2019, the expose of a secret City of Heroes...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 271: Population Zero plus three
Justin, Bree, and Sam discuss Population Zero, Blizzard's Q1 2020 report, Trove Delves, ESO's Greymoor prologue, and Guild Wars 2's rollback, with adventures in Fallout 76, Starborne, LOTRO, and SWG Legends, and mailbag topics on MMO reward hoarding and whether SSG's business model is predatory.
The Game Archaeologist: The rise and fall of Landmark and EverQuest Next
The year was 2013. Sony Online Entertainment was still a functioning and seemingly robust MMORPG studio, and its yearly SOE Live convention was a...
Finnish startup Dazzle Rocks raises $7M for new mobile ‘social sandbox MMO’
So hey, who wants to hear about a new MMO? It's a new "social sandbox MMO" from Finnish startup Dazzle Rocks, and it just...
Trove’s Delves update is live for PC players today with new delve mode and Tomb Raiser revamp
Whoa, when Gamigo said it was launching Trove's Delves expansion/update "this spring," we didn't realize that it meant "basically now." And yes, it's officially...
Global Chat: Suffering through Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box
Guild Wars 2 fans have developed a cult following around the seasonal Super Adventure Box, but as much as some love it, others have...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you let your own kids play?
A while back, in the long long ago when we could still talk to humans in person, I was chatting with the mom of...
Trove drops new trailer for Delves update, launching this spring
Last month, Gamigo took the wraps off of Trove next content patch, called Delves, which features content called - you guessed it - delves....
One Shots: There are many thrones, but this one is mine
In most of our real homes, the only throne we have does unspeakable double duty and isn't something we'd show off to visitors. But...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of play-by-email games
For most all of human history, people who wanted to play a game together usually had to be in physical proximity with each other....
Massively Overthinking: Would you play a housing-only MMO?
Last week, MOP's Justin put up a neat post on his personal blog about the potential for bringing back just the part of WildStar...
The Minecraft community’s insane project to build the Earth in 1:1 scale
The Minecraft community is well-known for attempting huge feats of architecture and construction, but a new project might just take the cake. Late last...
MapleStory throws a pixel party and welcomes MapleStory 2 refugees
There should be a rule that if your MMORPG makes it to 15 years, then you can celebrate it any way you want without...
The Stream Team: Glitches in Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box
It's time for more Super Adventure Box fun! Guild Wars 2's event is back, and this year it has includes some glitches. (No, Massively...
Massively on the Go: Animal Crossing’s housing islands from an MMO player’s perspective
One multiplayerish game that we've talked about a bit as the MOP team's been quarantined on the Golden Yacht is Animal Crossing: New Horizons....
Sandboxy-ish Minecraft-ish spinoff Hytale is acquired by Riot Games
We know that Riot Games has been making a hard push to move beyond its status of just having one major game under its...
Realm of the Mad God’s remastered Unity edition, Exalt, is now in open beta
Realm of the Mad God is one of those MMOs that are hard to quantify, being part retro-pixel shooter and part permadeath MMO in...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Red Stone, Euotopia, Ogre Island, Stendhal, and Astonia
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of — or have totally forgotten about until now! If you're...
Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box festival is finally live (check out the new SAB raptor skin!)
Way back in 2013, Guild Wars 2 dropped an April Fools' Day patch so epic it literally won our team's award for best expansion...
