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The MOP Up: Wakfu’s great server merge
Wakfu has finally set a date for its server merges. French servers are consolidating on October 14th, while international shards are coming together the...
One Shots: Spit take
If my experience with that giant camel at Aladdin's Flying Carpets at Disney World is any indication, all dromedaries are jerks that want to...
DCUO encounters ghoulies and makes reservations to travel to the 31st century
About every October, Batman is more gloomy than normal due to the fact that everyone is honing in on his motif with the Halloween...
The Game Archaeologist: Deadlands Legends, the western MMO that never saw the light of day
The saying goes that there is nothing new under the sun. So while you probably can't write an original setting that's never been seen...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO class makes you feel overpowered?
Obviously, we here at MOP love anything overpowered -- including frappes, meme wars, and MMORPG classes. Sometimes it doesn't even take numerically superior stats...
Standing Stone, Daybreak, KingsIsle, and more MMO companies will fundraise for Extra Life 2020
The season of Extra Life is almost upon us, meaning all your favorite MMO studios are going to be dispatching their developers to play...
City of Heroes’ SEGS rebuild project releases a pre-alpha version of its engine
The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) project, which readers will recall is an attempt to rewrite the code for City of Heroes to connect...
Cryptic’s Stephen D’Angelo on City of Heroes’ lessons, Star Trek Online’s booming revenues
It's been a wild year for PWE's Cryptic Studios, as it's been busy maintaining its core MMORPGs but also working on Magic Legends, which...
City of Heroes Homecoming rogue servers kick off Halloween with today’s patch
If you miss the spooky times in City of Heroes, whether you were there for some of the first ToT teams or experienced Dr....
Massively Overthinking: Are isometric MMOs more or less immersive than 3-D?
I was chit-chatting with MOP reader (and prolific tipster!) Panagiotis the other day about Ultima Online's big news when he hit on a topic...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 290: African expedition
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, Phantasy Star Online 2's New Genesis, LOTRO's new class, WoW and BlizzConline, The Wagadu Chronicles, and Secret World Legends, with adventures in WoW, Guild Wars, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on representation in MMOs and favorite jumping puzzles.
City of Heroes: Homecoming previews Page 6 content, preps for Halloween, and shares the cost of operations
We've got a whole lot of news pouring out of the Homecoming rogue servers for City of Heroes, so let's dive right in.
First...
City of Heroes players have released a security-centric, server-inclusive launcher called Sunrise
Back in 2019, when the City of Heroes community was still squabbling over who got to be in charge of what once a copy...
City of Heroes rebuild project SEGS expects to have an alpha by the end of the year
Back in the long long ago, before last year's City of Heroes revival, there was a group trying to bring back the game not...
Hellgate: London’s rogue server schedules its beta for Halloween
In terms of online video game resurrections, Hellgate: London seemed like it was going for the world record at one point. The infamous Flagship...
The Soapbox: The joys of MMO collecting
I’ve often sat and pondered exactly what it is that I enjoy about the MMO experience. After all, being educated about your own likes...
Champions Online’s third anniversary week sees Dr. Destroyer and his Destroids attack the city
Dr. Destroyer. Boy, what a comic book-y villain name. I love his '80s-style cheese. I love his Marc Silvestri-looking metallic outfit. And I love...
City of Heroes Homecoming emphasizes player-created content, bars ‘controversial political content’
City of Heroes' most popular rogue server, Homecoming, is a fount of player activity these days, and the dev team wants to make sure...
Ship of Heroes talks class picks, chaotic fights, and more beta events this fall
If you were following Ship of Heroes this past summer, you know that Heroic Games ran several beta events for backers and looky-loos during...
DC Universe Online drops riddles for Batman Day 2020, but DC Comics already revealed what’s coming
What we have here is an apparent failure to communicate between DC Comics and DC Universe Online. The superheroic MMO is set to celebrate...
