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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...
The Stream Team: Bouncing through Trove’s Bunfest
Have you been to Bunfest? Massively OP's MJ hasn't, and life has been all the poorer for it! Today she changes all that,...
The Daily Grind: How have pandemic responses affected your MMO socializing?
Last week, my kids and I were playing Trove when I realized that global chat was absolutely filled with blabbering about the virus. It's...
Massively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase's frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he's...
Satan has planted the most trees in Gamigo’s charity initiative so far
Last week, Gamigo announced a charity event to benefit Eden Reforestation Projects, selling packages that offer in-game items for MMOs like ArcheAge, RIFT, and...
Trove’s Bunfest offers new spring event content for Gamigo’s voxelbox
My five-year-old literally woke me up this morning chattering excitedly about "Bunfest" in Trove. Not bunnies - buns. She was insistent that this was...
Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box reopens next week, plus somebody bought the golden sink
Finally! ArenaNet had previously announced that Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, inarguably the best April Fools' event in all of MMO land, was...
Massively Uplifting: Cake, coloring, and EVE Online’s PLEX4Good COVID-19 relief
The news this past month has been infected with the novel coronavirus. It's everywhere we turn, and we can't escape it even if we...
Fight or Kite: You’re stuck in the house, so PvP with the kids in Trove
It might not be the best time in history to be a human, but it is one of the best times to be a...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box
In the MMORPG genre, April Fools' Day is especially relished as a time in which developers and studios can get a bit wacky and...
Massively Overthinking: How are MMO players faring through the pandemic?
This week's Overthinking is going to be a bit different from normal. As we've been covering extensively for more than the past two months,...
ArcheAge, RIFT, Trove, and more Gamigo MMOs launch a reforestation charity initiative
Gamigo is announcing a big charity project today with Eden Reforestation Projects, which will raise money to plant trees all over the world while...
