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Perfect Ten: MMO quests where you literally kill 10 rats
Webster's Dictionary describes "kill 10 rats" as "something nerds do, now shut up and read a few intelligent words." I think the editors are...
Kakao and XL Games’ mobile MMORPG Moonlight Sculptor launches globally May 25
In mid-April we shone a light on Moonlight Sculptor, a new mobile MMORPG from publisher Kakao Games and developer XL Games (of ArcheAge infamy)...
Skyforge is launching Hunters of Terra for multiple platforms on June 2
If you're playing Skyforge on the Nintendo Switch, you have a good reason to peer out at PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One players with...
Massively Overthinking: How much should MMO subs be in 2021?
MMORPG blogger Wilhelm at The Ancient Gaming Noob has a fantastic piece up this month on the traditional $15 MMO subscription. He dips back...
Virtual Reality MMO Zenith delays alpha 2 test again, now to July
Small teams with big ambitions are no strangers to encountering obstacles and hiccups along the say, and so it is with the indie team...
The Stream Team: The birds and the bees in Trove’s Spring Fling
Why should spring events be relegated to bunnies? Trove knows the real deal: ducks! The spring fling is underway and Massively OP's MJ gets...
Casually Classic: Yeah, those Burning Crusade Classic prices are stupid high
If there's anything that Blizzard excels in doing these days, it's taking a slam-dunk publicity announcement and turning it into a hurricane of poop....
Trove brings back the Spring Fling event with new rewards and Chloromancer materials
Look, Trove, if you put a duck wearing a fancy hat and a pipe before me and have him ask me to help his...
The MOP Up: Who’s showing up to E3 this year?
It remains to be seen how big or relevant E3 is going to be this year, but there certainly is interest in which studios...
Trove updates the Chloromancer as ArcheAge hands out free ArchePass XP boosters
If you blinked, you missed it: Trove rolled out a big update last week for the Chloromancer class on the PC. The patch changes...
Kakao Q1 2021 financials: ArcheAge 2 won’t be ready until at least 2024
As MOP's own Carlo has written at length, Kakao is a massive company with its fingers in many pies - most recently the delicious...
RuneScape is looking to make the Divination skill ‘more AFK-able and more enjoyable’ in May 4 update
Is "AFK-able" a word? It is now, or at least in the context of RuneScape's Divination skill, which is going to be seeing a...
The Stream Team: Saying sayonara to Defiance 2050
It's been a long, long time since Massively OP's MJ hopped into Defiance 2050... and today is her last chance! The game, as well...
Choose My Adventure: RIFT was fun before, wasn’t it?
My time in RIFT this past month has left me confused, frankly. Primarily because I remember genuinely enjoying this game more than I did.
That’s...
The MOP Up: Why did Fortnite go dark for a day?
Earlier this month, the ever-popular Fortnite went dark for the better part of April 6th. So what happened? We finally have the full scoop...
Choose My Adventure: Further group adventures (that weren’t IAs) in RIFT
Once again, the polls from last week were a split between people saying I should queue for normal dungeons and others saying I should...
ArcheAge developer XL Games announces mobile sandbox MMO Moonlight Sculptor
Developer XL Games, which readers will know are the folks behind ArcheAge, and publisher Kakao Games are set to unleash a new mobile sandbox...
ArcheAge brings back the Hereafter Festival to mark the in-game sacrifice of goddess Nui
One of the chief lore points of ArcheAge's story is the sacrifice of the goddess Nui when the realm of Auroria fell to Kyrios,...
Hellgate is back yet again, this time as a terrible VR game
It's the corpse that refuses to be buried -- and it's back to take a stab at virtual reality gamers.
That's right, Hellgate London has...
Choose My Adventure: Warrior time and a more classical Cleric in RIFT
This week, I traded my shepherd’s cane for a big honkin’ sword in RIFT and found that… well, there’s not too much different here,...