Major studio known to MMO fans primarily for The Crew and The Division.
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 450: Sour cream in caves
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, The Crew's sunset, Palia's Switch launch, Black Desert and New World's 2024 plans, Age of Water, and the Year of EverQuest, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, SWTOR, and Project Gorgon.
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
Ubisoft’s 2014 racing game The Crew 1 is sunsetting in March 2024
2023 has one more thing to take away from the greater MMO genre: Ubisoft is sunsetting The Crew, the original game in the driving...
The Division 2 announces overhauls to PvE and PvP with its Project Resolve seasonal update
Ubisoft is full of determination, or at the very least resolve, as the studio has laid out plans for Project Resolve, a seasonal update...
Skull and Bones’ December 14 closed beta will impose a six-hour total playtime limit
Do you have six hours' worth of free time between December 14th and 18th that you can spare to slake your curiosity about Ubisoft's...
Skull and Bones is now targeting February 2024 for its launch following eleventy billion delays
Insider Gaming is reporting that Ubisoft has finally narrowed down Skull and Bones' launch date to February 16th, 2024. And believe it or not,...
The Stream Team: Character creation for a modded Conan Exiles one-shot
After exploring a slew of mods and even checking out an impromptu crafted dungeon, Massively OP's Larry and MJ are prepared to begin Larry's...
MMO Business Roundup: NetEase’s Worlds Untold, Embracer, Ubisoft, unionization, and Epic v. Google
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry and business news. Numbers numbers numbers!
NetEase - The Chinese megacorp NetEase just can't...
Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs
There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...
MMO Business Roundup: Gaming addiction, GTA6, Ubisoft layoffs, Epic v. Google, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. There's been a lot this week, so we'll keep 'em brief!
Addiction: A woman...
Neverwinter’s Spelljammer module sends players into Wildspace with today’s launch
As promised, today is patch day for Cryptic's Neverwinter, in spite of the shadow of studio layoffs hanging over the company thanks to Embracer's...
Neverwinter previews Spelljammer’s Defense of the Moondancer trial
On Halloween, Cryptic rather abruptly announced Spelljammer, Neverwinter's next module, for November 7th. In addition to adding a new adventure zone and overhauls of...
Ubisoft and EA deprecate a dozen multiplayer games, including Star Wars Battlefront II of ‘pride and accomplishment’ fame
You can either chalk it up to the inescapable march of time and technology, shrug indifferently that older games are just dust in the...
Neverwinter’s Spelljammer launches November 7 with a new type of zone called Wildspace
Add one more major update to an MMORPG coming next week on November 7th: Neverwinter is launching its Spelljammer module that very crowded day.
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Indie MMORPG Monsters & Memories says its proof of concept is 70% complete
The crew at Niche Worlds Cult took to Reddit this week to make a case for Monsters & Memories, the charming throwback MMORPG that...
Skull and Bones has been delayed for at least the seventh time
Stop me if you've heard this one: Skull and Bones has been delayed again! At the top of the year, the company queued up...
The Division 2 applies several fixes to its Paradise Lost Incursion mission in latest patch
Regular players of The Division 2 were likely happy to see that the latest season brought back Incursion endgame missions among other things. What...
The Crew Motorfest is running another five-hour free trial on all platforms
Just a couple of weeks ago, Ubisoft was crowing about the launch of The Crew Motorfest, the third installment in its long-running multiplayer racing...
Former Ubisoft execs and employees were detained by French police over sexual misconduct allegations
It looks as if the French authorities are moving against Ubisoft employees who were among those accused in the studio's wide-reaching sexual misconduct exposé....
UK government body ‘opens the door’ for Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard in preliminary approval
The long shoving match between Microsoft and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) looks to be nearing its final stretch. The CMA has...
