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Perfect Ten: 10 times MMOs appeared in TV and movies
It's always surreal when real MMOs cross the divide between niche and mainstream to be referenced in television and films. Depending on how you...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p1 is live with the Marine Affinity powerset and new raid
If you were keeping an eyeball on City of Heroes' Homecoming not-rogue servers over the last month, you already knew that the player-led volunteer...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 476: Corepunk and Pantheon race to early access
Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Pantheon, Zenith, World of Warcraft, and Once Human, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on evolving FFXIV Dawntrail's storytelling.
Not So Massively: The problem with The First Descendant’s character unlock mechanics
The First Descendant has made quite a splash since it launched earlier this month. Nexon's looter shooter, dubbed "Warframe with waifus" by the greater...
DC Universe Online’s Brainiac Returns Aftershock is set to go live today
Hey hey DC Universe Online fans, Daybreak is packing a punch with its update today. "We're expanding the world of the latest Episode expansion...
DC Universe Online shares details of upcoming events, Xbox X|S release progress, and Episode 48
The immediate future of DC Universe Online appears to be pretty busy according to the MMORPG's latest producer's letter, which provides fans several looks...
‘The era of the big raid has returned,’ superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes declares
If you're tuning into Ship of Heroes for the raiding scene, Heroic Games aims to support your playstyle, as it's made abundantly clear in...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are best at letting you bring the player, not the class?
It was MOP's Eliot who put the ol' canard about bringing the player not the class in my head again recently, thanks to his...
City of Heroes Homecoming begins public testing of new raid and Marine-themed support set
The totally legal and licensed City of Heroes Homecoming (isn't that fun to say?!) has rolled out Issue 28: Page 1, dubbed Legacy, to...
DC Universe Online rolls out Aquaman-themed Tides of War event for the summer
Daybreak's DC Universe Online's servers were offline a bit yesterday, but only for good things, as the Tides of War summer event and concomitant...
EverQuest’s continuing 2024 roadmap teases The Outer Brood expansion and a server merge
"The Year of Darkpaw has passed the halfway mark and is still going strong!" Daybreak's Jenn Chan says in her latest EverQuest producer's letter,...
The Daily Grind: Would you rather have disposable minions or true pets with an MMO pet class?
A few weeks back, MOP's Chris and I were talking about Path of Exile 2's forthcoming Witch character and griping about the way a...
One Shots: Dawntrail, ho!
Memories of a brutal 48-hour downtime for Final Fantasy XIV are fading into distant memory as the playerbase basks on the shores of Dawntrail....
WoW Factor: MMORPG raiding is not special
You all remember The Incredibles, right? I know that these days the hot take is to try to spin the film as some sort...
Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?
Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....
DC Universe Online switches update days, readies summer event
DC Universe Online's latest game update isn't so much notable for what it contains -- it's a fairly minor patch -- but when it...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
Ship of Heroes has revamped all of its NPC voices and added new ones
Heroic Games is continuing its efforts to bring modern features to indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes, as its latest dev blog explains -...
Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG City of Titans improves its Mac OS version
Here's some uplifting news for City of Titans fans and Kickstarter backers who've been using Mac OS: The dev team improved that version of...
Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs
I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...
