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The MOP Up: FFXIV fans party hard at Gamescom 2024
Final Fantasy XIV's European contingent partied hard at the recent Gamescom 2024 -- the first such gathering in five years. The community team reported...
The Stream Team: Let’s talk Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 7.1 update
It's time once more for MOP's Chris and his crew to come together on a comfy digital couch and talk Final Fantasy XIV! Specifically,...
Final Fantasy XIV shows off patch 7.1, Crossroads, including a new alliance raid difficulty and new housing options
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is on its way, with patch 7.1, Crossroads, scheduled for a mid-November launch. As is tradition, producer...
LOTRO previews Legacy of Morgoth’s Imhûlar while DDO tests its new 64-bit server
Dungeons and Dragons Online's new 64-bit server looks to be coming to the game sooner rather than later, if Standing Stone Games' testing schedule...
One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth
Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...
LOTRO Legendarium: Five ways to fully fix LOTRO’s virtue system
Newer players to Lord of the Rings Online may not be aware that the game's virtue system used to be very difficult, requiring certain...
Co-op sci-fi farming sim Lightyear Frontier adds neighbors and animals next week
Co-op sci-fi farming sim Lightyear Frontier is looking to expand its early access borders with the title's "biggest content update yet." That expansion arrives...
It’s time to blow up houses in Star Wars Galaxies Legends – plus the devs just upgraded PvP and the engine
OK, so you're not really destroying houses with Star Wars Galaxies Legends' housing pack-up event. I mean, yes, you're calling in an airstrike on...
StarCraft is reportedly getting a shooter, Hearthstone has a new patch, Overwatch 2 shares anime outfits
Some people don't like it when their food touches on a plate. Others don't care. And others stack food servings on top of one...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s October outlook offers more tricks than treats
It's almost October, and that means Halloween in Pokemon Go, where the tricks are expected and the treats come with bugs, no matter how...
Ship of Heroes says it’s focusing on polish and better VFX for an ‘eventual launch’
Let's get the bad-but-obvious news out of the way first: Despite Ship of Heroes saying at the top of the year that it was...
Why I Play: Satisfactory scratches my MMO crafting itch
My first real exposure to Satisfactory was long, long before playing it or even being more than peripherally aware of it, because I really...
Throne & Liberty saw over 50K concurrent players last night – and it’s only going up from there
Yesterday, we asked our readers whether they were gunning to play Throne and Liberty, and almost two-thirds of those who responded said they were...
Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?
Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
World of Warships teases its next content update as it sells Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cosmetics
Gamers of a particular vintage will probably remember The Hunt for Red October, a naval-based action thriller about a Soviet submarine's attempt to defect...
EVE Online shares further adjustments coming to Equinox’s skyhook buildings
The skyhook is one of the primary features of EVE Online's Equinox expansion, so naturally any adjustments made to it would very likely perk...
Here’s how New World’s crossplay, servers, and transfers will work when Aeternum launches
If you remember the New World launch just a few years ago, you may already be wondering whether the Aeternum launch will offer the...
Black Desert changes clans to guilds on PC, makes several class adjustments on mobile
This week is a bit of a less intense one for Black Desert fans comparatively speaking, but there are still things of interest to...
First Impressions: Throne and Liberty blends the overly familiar with the intriguingly unique
Throne and Liberty represents a new big-label MMORPG launch, which is something that feels like a rare occurrence, particularly as most players are likely...
Vague Patch Notes: When leveling too quickly becomes a problem in MMORPGs
Last week, I talked about how slow leveling design could become a problem. In that piece (and the one before it - it's become...
