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Betawatch: Crucible keeps working on the Heart of the Hive
Ah, Crucible, you entered our lives so quickly and then exited equally quickly... but only back to beta. You might think this is...
Not So Massively Roundup: Destiny 2, Spellbreak, Vigor, Valorant, Frostpoint, Shadow Arena, and PUBG’s BLACKPINK collab
Welcome to a quick roundup of some news from the Not-So-Massively world!
Destiny 2: Bungie posted a trailer and a detailed dev blog on...
MMO Business Roundup: Morhaime is back with Dreamhaven, plus NCsoft’s parking lot and Epic’s Manticore ambitions
Welcome back to another quick roundup of video game industry news relevant to MMOs and MMO fans!
The Morhaimes: When Mike Morhaime announced he was...
Choose My Adventure: Wurm Online is not for me, and that’s OK
Wurm Online has made me feel the most noobish I've ever felt in an MMORPG in ages even after the tutorial. A tutorial that, by the way, I did indeed do; it's literally impossible not to do the tutorial. I couldn't get in to a different island until I got through the tutorial. The tutorial was done.
Pixel art 2-D MMORPG Naïca kicks off open beta on November 10
We've been peering in on the progress of Naïca on a couple of occasions now in our usual roundup of obscure...
The MOP Up: Razer accidentally exposes 100,000 consumer accounts
Razer, a popular provider of gaming hardware, joined the notorious list of companies that accidentally exposed their consumer's personal information to the world. While...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: LiteBringer, SamuTale, IcarusM, Stellar Warfare, Primordials of Amyrion, A3, Raid Shadow Legends, Second Extinction
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've probably never heard of (or have entirely forgotten about).
LiteBringer: Tibia fans who aren't...
Betawatch: Frozen Flame burns its way into a cool closed beta
Survival action RPG Frozen Flame announced this week that it was heading into closed beta with a single-player mode, a new event, and...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Age of Ascent, Little Sim World, Arcane Showdown, Riders Republic
It's tiny titles time, friends! One of the best parts about working with (and before then, reading) MOP is the fact that we all...
The MOP Up: Overhit sunsets in Korea
Nexon's Overhit is fading quickly from the mobile MMO scene. Its global servers were shut down earlier this year, leaving only the Korean and...
Pirates fight ninjas in Trove, Aura Kingdom’s ‘double patch,’ Twin Saga adds a new Senshi
With the number of MMOs under the Gamigo umbrella, it's perhaps easy for some of their updates to fall through the cracks, so consider...
Global Chat: Which MMO has the least annoying inventory system?
Inventory is something we have to deal with in, oh, pretty much every MMO that we play. Some games are far more generous with...
Betawatch: Craftopia is doing the difficult Early Access work
There's kind of a pall around early access games, mostly because a lot of them launch into early access and then faff about pointlessly. But
MMO Business Roundup: Guild Wars 2 voice acting, EVE Online mental health, Good Game, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO - and MMO-adjacent - industry news!
Guild Wars 2: If you've been bummed about Guild Wars 2's...
The Daily Grind: Are any MMORPGs ever truly ‘ready’ for launch when they launch?
A few weeks back, I was proofing one of Tyler's Not So Massively columns, when he said this:
"In general it was a very...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn DLC arrives on consoles
Good news for the patient and long-suffering Elder Scrolls Online console players: The game's latest DLC and patch have finally arrived following the...
Betawatch: New World promises lots of content in its November test
People seem to have generally been rather pleased with the New World preview event this month, huh? It's winding down today, but the promise...
Global Chat: New World might be worth the wait
One opinion I've seen echoed across many corners of our community is that New World is actually shaping up to be a pretty decent...
Second Life bans all in-game advertisements that are ‘political in nature’
Launching into political rants in global chat or hijacking the guild discussion to make everyone uncomfortable with views on election candidates is seen as...
Ashes of Creation recaps August progress, promises more details about nodes soon
The month of August was certainly a busy one for Intrepid Studios and Ashes of Creation, so if you happened to have missed...
