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MMO You’ve Never Heard Of: Cloudheim, Key to Heaven, Outlawed
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles that you have probably never heard of. Well, some of you have heard...
Not So Massively: Checking up on StarCraft II’s would-be successors
For some time now, MassivelyOP's Not So Massively column has been keeping an eye on the crop of upcoming real time strategy games that...
Betawatch: Stars Reach delays its Kickstarter for more testers
There need to be more testers in Stars Reach. Not because the current crop of testers is somehow insufficient for feedback, but because the...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Luckcatchers 2, Storebound, Might of Spells
Welcome back to a roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've (very likely) never heard of. If you have, then pat yourself on the...
Revived 2-D cozy browser MMO Lasuni renames and revamps as Ticuto
Back in January 2024 we chronicled the upcoming return of Lasuni, a browser-based 2-D MMORPG brought back to life after a sunset caused by...
MMO Business Roundup: Olympic esports, Unity layoffs, and Krafton Q4 2024 financials
Welcome back for a quick roundup of some of the MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news bits from the week!
Esports: If for some reason you...
Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
The MOP Up: Villagers and Heroes invites you to test-drive a raptor
Villagers and Heroes posted a preview of its upcoming Patch 5.40.5, with Sugarsweet Summithas, raptor mounts, lots of changes to frontier zones, raid balancing,...
Betawatch: Pantheon finally made it to Unity 6
It's been delayed and pushed off many a time, but Pantheon finally launched its big patch upgrading to Unity 6 this week, so we...
MMO Business Roundup: ESA’s tariff statement, the LA wildfires, and EA’s Battlefield Labs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business.
LA wildfires: If you followed the LA wildfires closely last month,...
The MOP Up: Stardew Valley’s creator isn’t quite done with the game yet
Stardew Valley hasn't reached the end of its development cycle. So when will Stardew Valley's creator stop working on the game? "If I feel like it's...
Betawatch: Path of Exile 2 is now affecting the original Path of Exile’s development
Remember being told that Path of Exile 2 was not going to impact Path of Exile's development? Well, that's happening now. We're sure that...
MultiVersus will close again in May, and this time it’s not coming back
MultiVersus is shutting down again, and unlike the last time, this one's going to stick.
"Season 5 will serve as the final seasonal content update...
MMO Week in Review: New World, Quinfall, and Unchained
If this week in the MMORPG industry had a theme, it would be "things fall apart" or perhaps "oh no honey no."
First, Unchained Entertainment...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone x Starcraft actually happened
StarCraft lives... in Hearthstone, weirdly enough, as the digital card game added a mini-set based around Blizzard's scifi RTS. "Explore the StarCraft universe with...
Betawatch: The Quinfall’s (the) early access, (the) Palia’s (the) New Beginnings
Remember, readers, it's only The Quinfall if it's a Turkish indie MMORPG that has just released into early access. Otherwise it's just more correctly...
The MOP Up: RIFT gets some surprising API improvements
Already we're checking off the "something positive happens for RIFT" square in our 2025 bingo card, as Gamigo's team invested some time improving the...
Lawful Neutral: All the big MMO-related law stories from 2024, from Palworld to Blizzard
2024 was another quiet year on the gaming legal front. I think various AI dramas and associated legislative hand-wringing sucked all the air out...
Betawatch: Stars Reach is reaching for crowdfunding
We have honestly been able to talk about very little in the newsroom aside from the news that Stars Reach is planning for a...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online surprises fans with Spacedock revamp
Star Trek Online delivered a small surprise this past week with visual improvements to its iconic Spacedock: "In essence, we’re replacing the exterior System...
