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Fight or Kite: New World’s switcheroo is the best thing that could have happened for PvPers
About a month ago, Amazon’s large age of conquest MMO, New World, announced a huge shift in focus from a free-for-all, full-loot PvP game...
The Stream Team: Valentine’s Day means helping heckbugs find love in Trove
What are your plans for Valentine's Day? Massively OP's MJ will be helping some heckbugs find true love in Trove! The so-ugly-they-are-cute critters are...
MMO Business Roundup: Kakao’s controlling stake in XLGAMES, Steam’s new record, Xbox’s games-as-a-service
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Kakao Games: Kakao has snapped up a controlling stake in XLGAMES, having acquired 53%...
Guild Wars 2 just put an end to cheese mechanics in the Drakkar encounter
It's patch day for Guild Wars 2, and that usually means one of two things: a tiny one-line bug tweak, or a major release....
RIFT and ArcheAge outline their respective Valentine’s Day events
The season of love (or at least mutually beneficial teamwork long enough for everyone to get rewards and then never speak of the pairing...
Grab a Defiance 2050 Urban Commando outfit from MOP and Gamigo
It's been a hot minute since we last talked about Defiance 2050, the MMO Trion Worlds spun off from the original Defiance back in...
Diablo III’s live team discusses balance and nerfing animation cheesing classes ahead of 2.6.8 update
Gotta say, I was not expecting a Diablo III dev blog this week, or really ever, what with Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal waiting...
Grab a Trove level 10 booster in our winter giveaway courtesy of Gamigo
Trove is a heavily account-centric title when it comes to most things, like mastery and unlocks. You can even swap between your classes at...
Harvesting and crafting will soon grant experience in Crowfall
February - and Crowfall's big overhaul - are inching closer, and ArtCraft has been teasing some of the big changes it's making with the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 257: Daybreakup
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's split up, Tencent's Funcom bid, Torchlight Frontiers becoming a non-MMO, Temtem's early access, Rend's sunset, and DDO's new expansion, plus adventures in Neverwinter, STO, SWG, CoH, and Trove, and a mailbag discussion on changing MMO goals.
The MOP Up: Dofus gives its 2020 roadmap
After a wild 15th year anniversary, Dofus is prepared to crank out a great 2020. The game's roadmap outlined the upcoming year (brought to...
ArcheAge looks back at 2019’s updates and unveils the second season of the ArchePass
While 2019 was certainly a bouncy one for ArcheAge and especially ArcheAge Unchained, Gamigo Group would rather accentuate the positive by looking at the...
The second season of ArcheAge Unchained’s ArchePass begins today
The never-ending saga of ArcheAge Unchained and its beleaguered ArchePass continues as this week Gamigo announced yet another round of changes for the system...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs in 2020
While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 256: Queens, vikings, and vampires
Justin, Bree, and Sam are on about MMO PvP this week, discussing all things New World, Albion Online, Elder Scrolls Online, ArcheAge, and Magic Legends, plus adventures in MMOs including Guild Wars 2 and Neverwinter.
Lawful Neutral: Examining the ArcheAge class action lawsuit – and what it means for gamers
Gamers threaten lawsuits a lot. Most of the time they threaten lawsuits over things that aren't really something they can sue over, usually due...
One Shots: Abusing emote spam
Emotes: They're a privilege, not a right. Well, they actually come pretty standard in most online games, so I guess they're more or less...
ArcheAge Unchained offers players another shot at the Diligence Coin Compensation Package
All right. So back in the long long ago (meaning a couple of months back, obviously)Â ArcheAge Unchained had a bit of a problem, and...
Crowfall’s UI is getting less survival-y and more MMO-y with February’s test patch
Call me weird, but user interfaces in games are among my favorite things to dig into, and Crowfall's has been of particular interest to...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
