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Viking colony survivalbox ASKA adds town militias and seasonal crops with the Farmers and Fighters update
Are you a farmer or a fighter? Well luckily in the Viking-themed multiplayer colony management survivalbox ASKA you can be both, especially considering the...
Sil and the Fading World is an upcoming ARPG that pits solo players against MMO raid bosses
We obviously are about MMORPGs, MMOs, and multiplayer gaming here at MOP, but as we've demonstrated before, we're not averse to highlighting games that...
The MOP Up: Ethyrial adds guilds and guild leveling
We'll start today's leftover news roundup with the word that Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore added guilds with Patch 3.2.2!
"They can be created for the...
The Stream Team: Sunday funday in Final Fantasy XIV
It's Sunday. Eorzea Sunday, to be precise. By now you all know what that means: MOP's Chris and his crew are coming together to...
Dieselpunk PvPvE vehicular battler Sand offers up a PvP demo and seven minutes of raw gameplay footage
Back in May we shared our first look at Sand, an in-development PvPvE sandbox primarily centered around Tramplers - massive robotic structures that act...
Stream Team: Returning to ICARUS for Sandbox Saturday
Although Massively OP's MJ has been lured away to other survival venues, she hasn't forgotten about ICARUS. She was just waiting until the timing...
The Stream Team: A rousing round of the Rodent Rumble playtest
There are certain games that just call out to Massively OP's MJ and Chris on a deep, fundamental level. And one of those games...
Legacy: Steel and Sorcery is an multiplayer co-op ARPG made by ex-WoW devs
If you, like us, make a hobby of following the various projects that former World of Warcraft devs are creating, then you might be...
Overwatch 2 launches Halloween events October 15, Hearthstone opens The Great Dark Beyond November 5
It's about to get spooky, ookie, and kooky in both Overwatch 2 and Hearthstone over the next few weeks, with the superheroic PvP FPS...
The Stream Team: Enjoying the Harvestmath festivities in Lord of the Rings Online
MOP's Chris and his Happy Cappy Nirlun the Bear-Chested are off to enjoy Harvestmath in Lord of the Rings Online! There's quests to be...
Design Mockument: How would you make a good mecha MMORPG?
So because I am me, I decided to be on the bleeding edge of topicality and start figuring out how to make a Robotech...
Star Wars The Old Republic readies public testing of its next lair boss and dynamic events system soon
Star Wars: The Old Republic game director Eric Musco has some fresh details about the game's incoming Game Update 7.6: Galactic Threads patch -...
Fallen Earth remake’s new Unity servers are ‘quite far along’ as devs target launch for Q4 2025
After a 10-month period of silence about Fallen Earth and its Unity remake, Little Orbit CEO Matt Scott sat down for an hour-long AMA...
New World’s latest Aeternum trailer splices cutscenes into gameplay to sell the experience
Does anyone remember back in 2021 when Amazon's media saturation for the launch of New World was insane? I sure do! I can't say...
ArcheAge Chronicles video highlights its acrobatic combat and vast persistent online world
A couple of weeks ago XLGames and Kakao Games showed off a rebranded and revised ArcheAge 2, with the name of ArcheAge Chronicles and...
The Stream Team: Mercs make a Foundation of Discord in Dungeons and Dragons Online
Curse those arcane mercenaries! In DDO's Gianthold Wastes saga, the Stormreaver's forces are bolstered by a large group of them from the Aurum organization....
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
Torchlight Infinite brings a new character and hints at bringing color to a dull land in October 25’s Season 66
What does bringing color to a snow white world mean in Torchlight: Infinite? We'll all find out on Friday, October 25th, when Season 66...
Villagers and Heroes plans The Crux update for October 28, eyes subscription hike
Villagers and Heroes is gearing up for its next big thing: It's called The Crux. The first part of it, anyhow, and it includes...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run
The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...