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The Game Archaeologist: Pirates of the Caribbean Online
In 1967, Disneyland opened one of its most iconic attractions: a dark boat ride called Pirates of the Caribbean. A large fandom surrounding the...
Early access retro PvP MMORPG Leafling Online has sunsetted over waning interest
Hey, remember Leafling Online? It first scooted onto our radar about two years ago as a free-to-play retro 2-D, nostalgia-driven open PvP sandbox; players...
The Stream Team: Exploring Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box new world 3
It happened! The next world in Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box has opened! Well, sort of. It is in testing at the moment,...
Trove kicks off the Easter season with the return of its egg-filled Bunfest event
The bright colors of the Easter holiday are landing in the (arguably) already colorful world of Trove today, as the Bunfest in-game event is...
The Division 2 threatens to ban players over XP glitches that are causing server instability
Apparently, players have found a way to earn loads of XP in The Division 2, but doing so is causing the game's servers to...
Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box – and part of an unfinished World 3 – is live ahead of April Fools’ Day 2023
Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Festival is live for the April Fools' season as of today with all the usual features and tweaks. Players...
Dungeons and Dragons Online hands out free questing coupons to all
I've long held the opinion that Dungeons and Dragons Online is one of the more underrated MMORPGs on the market, especially with its narration,...
Mortal Online 2 assembles a video showcase for its new elementalism magic patch
If you're into the power of the elements -- or have a retro fondness for Captain Planet and the Planeteers -- then you might...
Minecraft console dev studio argues buyout of Activision-Blizzard is ‘a natural evolution of the industry’
Responses to findings by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority to Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard are continuing to be revealed, following the paranoid scenarios...
Gamigo hosts St. Patrick’s Day scavenger hunt across RIFT, Trove, and Fiesta Online’s social media
We learned a couple of new things today, thanks to Gamigo. First, we discovered that you can include little pictures as part of URLs,...
Trove’s St Patrick’s Day – sorry, St Qubeslick – event has returned through March 20
Here it is, folks: the very first MMORPG St Patrick's Day event of the 2023 season, and it happens to be in Gamigo's MMORPG...
Whatever happened to PixArk, Ship of Fools, and Justice Online?
Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, our intermittent roundup on MMOs and multiplayer games that have somehow slipped off our radar...
Trove buffs the Gunslinger and tweaks merchants with the Gunslinger Noscope patch, live now
Earlier this week on the MOP Podcast, we noted that Trove was one of Gamigo's few remaining money-making MMORPGs, and we couldn't see the...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Gamigo is granting 15 free days of sub time to new and returning RIFT players
Has Gamigo abandoned RIFT? Given the lack of updates and massive layoffs and tiny population, you might think so, and we've certainly been wary...
Gamigo mandates that RIFT and Trove accounts be linked to Steam
If you're one of the faithful players who continue to adventure in RIFT and Trove under Gamigo's operational oversight, then you'll need to take...
Trove’s heckbugs are back for Valentine’s with new loot
Just because Trove is made up of blocks doesn't mean that it lacks a heart. Gamigo's inherited sandbox MMO is going to prove that,...
The MOP Up: Meet Starfall, a new indie Minecraft MMO
So many amazing projects have been birthed from Minecraft over the past decade-plus, including fully formed games. One of the newer of these is...
Guild Wars 2 prepares previews of balance changes and WvW quality-of-life ahead of its 2023 roadmap
There are likely a fair number of Guild Wars 2 players at the edges of their seats for the MMORPG's 2023 content roadmap. Unfortunately,...
Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio
Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
