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SGF 2024: The First Descendant confirms a July 2 launch date in new cinematic trailer
There were no shortage of shooter titles showcased during this year's Summer Game Fest presentation, but there was one that we have been paying...
Fallout 76 is taking you to summer camp in Season 17
Pack up your slightly musty sleeping bag, a tote of illicit candy, and your best anti-mutant spray because you're about to go to summer...
The Stream Team: Wild wolf extermination in ICARUS
After gearing up with the armor and weapons created from the iron she mined in the caves last time, Massively OP's MJ is ready...
The Stream Team: Acquiring rubber ducky and Cosmic Raiment hats in AdventureQuest 3D
Hats off to Friday! Or for AdventureQuest 3D, it's more like hats on. This week introduces two great new hats for Massively OP's MJ...
Summer Game Fest 2024: New World, Dune Awakening, Palworld, and more MMO reveals
Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest - aka not-E3 - is set to begin this evening at 5 p.m. EDT, and if you've been following...
‘Fitness MMORPG’ WalkScape kicks off a second closed beta test and shares a new roadmap
Over the past year we've been keeping an eye on WalkScape, a self-described "fitness MMORPG" that very clearly takes some inspiration from an elder...
The Stream Team: A quick run through the Wayfinder Echoes update
Usually we're not in the business of highlighting single-player offline gaming here at OPTV, but for today's stream we're making an exception because Wayfinder...
For Science: Gamer Motivation Survey data suggest strategic gaming in is a nasty decline
When I first got access to a PC as a kid, it was a couple of years before the first true MMORPG launched, and...
Vague Patch Notes: Chasing the metagame in MMOs isn’t the metagame at all
So a few weeks back, I did a column on what the metagame actually is in MMORPG, and then I discussed how noob traps...
Awake: Afterdark Apocalypse is a ridiculous gen-AI Kickstarter game that purports to be ‘the spiritual successor to the MMO’
Pack it in, kiddos, for the new champion of MMOs has arrived on the scene. It's called Awake: Afterdark Apocalypse, and if the title...
NCsoft’s Battle Crush sets early access for June 27, opens crossplatform registration today
NCsoft's next big thing is coming June 27th! No, not Throne and Liberty; we're talking about its new cross-platform brawler, Battle Crush. The company...
The Stream Team: Hunting for answers at DDO’s Icemount hunting lodge
With Lord Arden awakened in DDO's Fewild, Massively OP's MJ is free to finally search for those missing codex pages. But according to Arden,...
Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
Multiplayer gacha RPG Wuthering Waves outlines plans to improve gameplay, reduce grind, and fix issues
A couple of weeks ago we reported on the launch of Wuthering Waves, a gacha-filled co-op RPG from developer Kuro Games for PC and...
ARK Survival Ascended adds The Center map, paid critter DLC, and premium mods on console
ARK Survival Evolved reboot/rebrand ARK Survival Ascended is doing something new this week: It's launching a new paid DLC series focused on new tamed...
War Thunder and World of Tanks mark D-Day’s 80th anniversary with special missions, vehicles, and rewards
Today is officially the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the operation that saw Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, and once again the multiplayer...
Bohemia’s adorable multiplayer pirate sandbox Ylands is headed to Switch as a B2P offline version
We hadn't even heard of Ylands before today, but now we wish we had; it's apparently Bohemia's 2019 cozy - and very tiny -...
Palworld adds alpha pal breeding, teases new critters, and prepares a Summer Games Fest presentation
It's been a bit of time since we granted a more focused peek in on Palworld, particularly since most of its social media posts...
Persist Online interview: CipSoft explains why Persist is an MMORPG, not a survival shooter
Earlier this week, we covered the surprising news that Tibia developer CipSoft has a new MMORPG on the way. At least, the studio is...
Warcraft Rumble rolls into its first raid with Molten Core
The iconic World of Warcraft vanilla raid now gets its own pint-sized version in Warcraft Rumble, as the mobile title introduced Molten Core this...
