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Bethsoft has delayed Fallout 76’s Wastelanders expansion again – but only by a week
Fallout 76 players have been waiting for the Wastelanders expansion for a long time, it's safe to say. It was originally meant to come...
Borderlands 3, now fully live on Steam, previews next content drop
Hey, remember Borderlands 3? When the only way to play it on PC was to install the confusingly maligned Epic Games Store? Well that...
Gloria Victis announces a standalone management game where players must survive a siege
While most of us here recognize Gloria Victis as a sandbox MMORPG, developer Fish Tank Studio is working with Black Eye Games as publisher...
Survival MMO Population Zero previews world design and exploration
Need a break from watching the news in horror? Population Zero's dev diary might do the trick. Developer Enplex Games has a new one...
The Survivalist: Last Oasis virtual dev tour highlights nomadic life and offline safety
At this stage of the survival genre game, you need more than just a novel idea for the setting. You need unique features to...
COVID-19 roundup: GameStop, unions call foul, Square-Enix, race cars, Blizzard, Skyforge, and Ultima Online housing
Welcome back to another quick roundup of news bits all about how COVID-19 has impacted even our MMO corner of the gaming world. Also...
Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the time he was a gold farmer in World of Warcraft (for research)
Apparently, Gabe Newell -- you know, the billionaire president of Valve who has enough money to, say, throw it into the bonfire of rejiggering...
Into the Super-verse: Getting started with Champions Online in 2020
The sharp rise and fall of Champions Online back in 2009 resulted in a game that's made for an easy target of jokes ever...
Valve plans a wholesale reboot for its digital CCG Artifact
Like the Black Knight of Monty Python and the Holy Grail fame, Valve's Artifact is not ready to give up the fight despite its...
Steam adds in a new interactive recommendation feature
There are a lot of games on Steam. What the heck do you want to play? Valve is hoping to solve that particular problem...
Co-op RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff is too much stuff for you to handle
Besides having a name that is giving our editor conniptions, Swords 'n Magic and Stuff is charming fans into opening their wallets for this...
Massively Overthinking: What MMO topics have you changed your mind on over the years?
On last week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering a fun question from MOP reader and listener Pieter about...
Torchlight III shuts a yappy cat’s mouth
Not every patch is going to be a content delivery system from the gods; sometimes you have to make do with a custodian patch...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Avorion, Naïca, Pocket Mortys, Mighty Party, Neopets, Uncharted Waters Online, and Wolf Team
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of -- or have totally forgotten about until now! We'll...
Nexon is sunsetting MapleStory 2 after less than two years online
Ah damn, we really didn't need more bad news right about now. But it's here all the same: Nexon officially announced this afternoon that...
Art-curation MMO Occupy White Walls is running a $120K Kickstarter
Almost two years ago, we learned about a new game we called "the most bizarre new MMORPG we’ve seen in years" - and it's...
Wolcen promises a ‘second dawn’ with focus on improving testing, balance, and servers
In order to continue improving the game and "restore more global happiness" to the game's community (their words, not ours), the devs of Wolcen:...
The Daily Grind: What MMO are you playing instead of going out right now?
Whether you're practicing extreme social distancing or actually hunkered down within a quarantine zone, quite a lot of you are playing video games right...
Steam hits a new peak of 20 million concurrent users thanks to quarantines and social distancing
It's very likely that global quarantines caused by the novel coronavirus have helped matters, but regardless of the reason, Steam concurrency numbers hit a...
The MOP Up: Dark Age of Camelot widens its F2P doorway
St. Patty's day is alive and kicking in Dark Age of Camelot through next Wednesday, but the big news here is that Broadsword is...
