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The Daily Grind: Which online game has a personality that mirrors yours?
Intentionally designed or not, every MMO and online game exudes a personality, and no two are exactly alike. It might be the cheerful anarchy...
The Stream Team: Trove turns two times two!
It's been way too long since Massively OP's MJ enjoyed some Trove, and she's rectifying that right now. And just in time for a...
Choose My Adventure: Behold! The MOP Hunter-Killer arrives to the City of Heroes
A new automaton of outrageous and awesome ability has arrived! This pint-sized power plant bears skills never seen by human eyes! A far-flung futuristic...
Grab a Trove batmobile in our summer mount giveaway courtesy of Gamigo
OK, so it's not an official batmobile. But it kind of looks like the new batmobile, crossed with Luke's landspeeder, and we're here for...
The Game Archaeologist: Ironman modes and elective permadeath
One facet of video games that's been around almost since the very beginning is difficulty levels. This allowed the player to choose how hard...
The Daily Grind: What one modern feature would you bring to WoW Classic?
Want to send your ardent World of Warcraft Classic proponent into an unscripted fit of rage? Insist strongly that while the retro server idea...
Battle Bards Episode 147: Continent of the Ninth Seal
Bring on the heavy makeup, electric guitars, and MMO groupies, because the Battle Bards are rock and rolling their way into Continent of the...
Trove’s gardening-centric Going Green update arrives to consoles
The task of creating a garden isn't really the first sort of activity that one thinks of doing when it comes to MMO gaming,...
The Game Archaeologist: Sierra’s Fates of Twinion and Ruins of Cawdor
A few years ago I regaled you with the fascinating tale of one of the very first multiplayer graphical MUDs, the absurdly named Shadow...
Leaderboards get streamlined in the latest Trove PC hotfix
The leaderboards of Trove have undergone something of a diet. A hotfix applied earlier this week to the PC version has seen several important...
Interview: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on the state of the beta and the NDA
We've been watching Camelot Unchained ever since its original Kickstarter in 2013 - and a lot has changed in the ensuing six years, including...
WoW Classic’s stress test is stressing player patience
Last night I, and apparently 80% of human civilization, logged on to the public stress test for World of Warcraft Classic. There I found...
The Survivalist: The perils of breeding pets in PixARK, chapter one
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
I am going to share a story with you. At it's core, it's...
E3 2019: Terraria: Journey’s End will be the game’s final update before entering maintenance mode
It's been a long trip for the 2-D multiplayer side-scrolling exploration title Terraria, and while we don't cover this one particularly closely, the upcoming...
E3 2019: Minecraft Dungeons delays to 2020, drops new trailer
In the oddly specific Venn diagram where Minecraft fans and small-group co-op lovers collide, the center offers a tantalizing solution to appeal to both...
The MOP Up: KurtzPel’s early access rolls out globally
While it was already accessible to North American players, the anime-styled KurtzPel is now open to a much wider audience thanks to this past...
Massively Overthinking: Does the MMO genre have too many games for its own good?
Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...
Indie MMO ‘spaceship design game’ Exocraft ports from PC to mobile today
Exocraft caught my eye earlier this year chiefly because I cannot stay away from these retro games with colorways that just glow right off...
The Game Archaeologist: 1998’s Mankind
In the annals of the MMO genre, the massively multiplayer RTS has had perhaps the worst go of any variations on these online games....
The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two
Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...
