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Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
Palia’s new loyalty club has arrived with a de facto discount for cash shop currency
Just two weeks ago, Palia studio Singularity 6 announced what it's calling Zeki's Loyalty Club. As teased, the club sounded like a cross between...
Blizzard lays out the design pillars for World of Warcraft’s accessible neighborhood housing
The news that World of Warcraft is getting housing with its next expansion, Midnight, shocked the whole MMORPG genre - and us too, as...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs (and MMO-adjacent games) you can play on Nintendo Switch in 2025
In our family, there's an ongoing joke that I was the one who got the Nintendo Switch as a birthday present a few years...
EverQuest gives a big ol’ smooch to the return of Erollisi Day
As the page of this year's tome turns to February, so too does EverQuest's thinking turn to love and romance. The fantasy MMO kicked...
DC Universe Online postpones a new character leveling event over ‘unforeseen issues’
Generally speaking, when an event is kicking off in your MMORPG, all systems are go, especially if that event is going to see a...
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...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2025?
You know, you're not reading this piece until January, but I sat down to write it ahead of the turn of the year, when...
Vague Patch Notes: Bad MMOs happen – but not because nobody cares
When I first started working at Massively-that-was, I got a bit of a wake-up call pretty early on when I made a joke about...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs that came back from the dead
The fact that I loved Charlotte's Web as a child probably had some influence on my developing brain, but it does mean that I...
PlanetSide 2 says its development team ‘remains unchanged’ following Toadman’s shuttering
MMO fans have been worried about the fate of PlanetSide 2 over the last few weeks following the revelation that EG7 would be shuttering...
DC Universe Online’s narrative-focused Day of Reckoning update is live
DC Universe Online has talked up the more narrative and dark bent of this update, and now it's time for players to experience it...
Obituary: Project Gorgon developer Sandra Powers has passed away
I'm horribly sorry to be the bearer of this dreadful news this morning: Sandra Powers, one of the two key devs behind Project Gorgon...
EverQuest II opens the Desert of Flames beta for Anashti Sul server players January 27
The roadmap promised, and Daybreak's Darkpaw Games delivered: EverQuest II is beginning the beta for the Desert of Flames expansion for players on Anashti...
Massively Overthinking: Has an MMO cadence switch-up ever actually worked out for the best?
When I was going through our historical awards for the debrief earlier this month, I had a little chuckle looking at the awards for...
DC Universe Online’s Day of Reckoning chapter gets a January 28 launch date
For the past few weeks, DC Universe Online has been weaving a murder mystery in the lead-up to its first story arc chapter. Now,...
Palia’s New Beginnings update arrives today with Lunar New Year and a new discount loyalty club
Cozy multiplayer RPG Palia is rolling out the first beta patch of the new year today, and appropriately, it's called New Beginnings. As the...
Free Realms’ legacy lives on with a pair of rogue server projects
Exiles from Free Realms -- including many kids who grew up with it as their first MMO -- have had a hard time finding...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most played MMOs in 2025?
So here we are at the top of another year, looking ahead at what we think we're going to play. Consider this week's Massively...
US government agency is hoping to extend consumer protections to virtual currencies in games like Roblox
It's fairly well known by now that most governments and the laws they enact do not do a good job of keeping pace with...
