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Global Chat: Are MMO classes too similar to each other?
Blogger Yeebo Fernbottom has a beef with MMOs, and maybe you can relate. The issue, as the Yeebs sees it, is that in the...
MMO Business Roundup: GDC 2021, Netmarble, NYCC, voice actors, Gamescom, Steam’s autumn festival
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
GDC 2021: Fresh off the digital GDC Summer 2020, Informa Tech announced that its...
Pagan Online rebrands as Pagan: Absent Gods after jettisoning multiplayer
If it escaped your attention last month, Pagan Online is, well, no longer online. Studio Mad Head said that the multiplayer servers were "not...
GDC Summer 2020: Better living, climate awareness, and citizen science through games
Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games as medicine or for...
Iron Harvest is a multiplayer RTS set in a robot-filled 1920s era, now in open beta
Developer KING Art Games and publisher Deep Silver have dared to ask, "What if the Polish-Soviet War had robots in it?" That's the general...
Torchlight III just got its last big update before its official launch
Torchlight III testers got absolutely wiped this week - literally. PWE and Echtra Games dropped part one of what it's dubbed the "mainline" patch...
Shocking almost no one, Dragon’s Prophet was yeeted off Steam
So, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there's a Dragon's Prophet emulator out there that's been...
Legends of Aria’s Shifting Sands update is live with new PvE and PvP content
Legends of Aria is marching forward with today's release of Season 4: The Shifting Sands as promised, with new dynamic PvE encounters for players...
Electronic Arts’ EA Access plan is heading to Steam in late summer
Electronic Arts is continuing its gradual return to Steam with a newly opened page talking up the arrival of the EA Access plan, as...
Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a team-based PvPvE game of medieval-styled thievery
Developer Sumo Newcastle and publisher Focus Home Interactive offered up what it hopes is a unique spin on the team-based PvPvE game during the...
Wurm Online devs assess the Steam launch, discuss future updates in an AMA
Several developers from Code Club AB, the team behind Wurm Online, recently took to Reddit to open up an AMA and field a variety...
Shadow Arena introduces a limited-time battle pass full of in-game rewards and contest entries
Ah, the battle pass. It sure does seem to be the new microtransaction hotness, doesn't it? And now this latest trend in multiplayer gaming...
Co-op RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff arrives to Steam Early Access on September 8
Are you prepared for low-poly adorable adventure? You should be when Swords 'n Magic and Stuff makes its way to Steam Early Access about...
Fractured is handing out alpha keys via in-testing games distribution platform G.Round
I've learned something new when putting this story together: There's apparently a Steam for in-testing and in-development games with a focus on gathering player...
Infantry Online rogue server asks for Daybreak’s help
Usually rogue servers and game emulators like to stay on the down low as to not draw any unwanted attention from the legal owners...
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds returns August 11
It's been only a week since Guild Wars 2 dropped its latest content episode, but already the ArenaNet team is moving to the next...
Phantasy Star Online 2 episode 4 brings new quests and events, a PvP arena, and arrival on Steam
Today is a pretty big day for Phantasy Star Online 2 as the game is releasing its big episode 4 update, bringing new quests...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 282: Gate crashers
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Dragon's Prophet, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Phantasy Star Online 2, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on memorable MMO stories and the greediest games.
Rebirth Online makes its early access arrival to Steam
Steam is now home to another free-to-play MMORPG from our friends in South Korea. This time it's Rebirth Online, which appears to be the...
Closed alpha testing results see survival sandbox Craftopia delay its early access launch
MOP's Bree and I -- and probably some other staffers here -- are pretty eager to see what Craftopia is all about. For those...
