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Trove’s next update, Into the Deep, adds new world bosses and a level 25 class booster
With Trove's server move and three-day outage behind us, we can look ahead to Trove's next big thing - and yes, Gamigo is still...
Champions Online celebrates its 10th birthday with a new mission
The longest consistently operating superhero MMORPG is hitting a significant milestone this week, with Champions Online celebrating the 10th anniversary of its launch on...
Gamigo is taking Trove offline all day today for a big server move
Earlier this month, some Trove players saw more than a week of downtime thanks to outages that affected both PC players and those on...
WoW Classic’s first night smashes Twitch, sees lines form inside and outside the game
Heading into World of Warcraft Classic on its first night was a lot like going to Disneyworld at peak season: No matter whether you...
The MOP Up: Skyforge hisses and burns
It's (sigh) mass hiss-teria in Skyforge these days thanks to Gorgonide forces invading the place. Gorgonide? Really? Devs ain't even trying these days. Anyway,...
WoW Classic’s launch day plans include nine more servers
If you remember nothing else about World of Warcraft Classic, remember the number "10." That will come in very handy on Monday, as the...
Dauntless brings neon hair, updated patrol chests, and new weapon specials in the latest update
At the surface, it seemed like the latest update to Dauntless was only bringing some new skins to chase in the most recent Hunt...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that flirted with permadeath
This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...
Hegemony is a new ‘classic’ MMORPG built using Minecraft
If you're still a bit bummed over Mojang canceling Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics Pack overhaul, then I do have a little bit of good...
The Game Archaeologist: Dungeons & Dragons
Part of the holy mission of the Game Archaeologist is to ferret out the roots of history that ultimately led to MMORPGs as we...
Gamigo drops more ArcheAge teases on labor points, monetization, and housing
Yesterday, Gamigo put up a teaser website under the old Trion domain promising a big Gamescom reveal. Accompanied by an ArcheAge account tweet hinting...
Gamigo is up to something next week – is it related to ArcheAge?
Gamigo's dropping something new next week, according to a tweet the company just sent out. MMO players will recall that Gamigo's the German company...
Secret World Legends and Trove offer compensation to players for recent bungles
For those of us who weathered the early days of MMOs when downtime and rollbacks were a daily occurrence, the idea of compensation might...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Chairs and other oddities in Guild Wars 2’s cash shop
I love MMO cosmetics, and Guild Wars 2 has a great selection, from armor skins and outfits to gliders to minipets to mount skins....
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best farming and gardening experience?
Not gonna lie, I really like farming in MMOs. No, not the grindy kind of farming, just the actual process of farming crops on...
Perfect Ten: Great MMOs that will run just fine on your old computer
The other day a friend was telling me that he used to play EverQuest Online Adventures very regularly back in the day, but fell...
Citywars Savage is a Minecraft-like sandbox MMORPG with programmable NPCs
We here at MOP like to cast a pretty wide net in our little corner of the videogame universe, which means we also see...
The MOP Up: Ragnarok Online EU is relaunching
Ragnarok Online is changing hands in Europe, and as part of that, the long-running fantasy MMO is relaunching with a different spin under 4game....
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Decentraland, Monster & Me, and Grand Fantasia
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!).
Up first:...
MMORPG Seed’s devs want their AI NPCs to learn from, simulate, and fool actual players
We've been keeping an eye on MMO colony sim Seed - the SpatialOS one, not this one - for a few years now, in...
