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Ghost dev Brian Holinka broadly discusses the MMO’s combat model
The name of Brian Holinka will very likely be familiar to MMORPG fans, primarily for his work as lead combat designer for World of...
The Stream Team: Looking for lore in DDO’s Ravenloft
Diaries litter Ravenloft. Massively OP's MJ wants to read them... er, clean them up. Who wants stuff strewn around the landscape? Besides, privacy is...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs and ‘fresh piece of gum’ syndrome
Back in March, MOP reader Exarch Cathedra posted a comment to a Daily Grind about daily logins and sticky MMOs that caught my attention,...
V Rising demos its new Dracula-themed endgame zone, Ruins of Mortium
Vampire survival sandbox V Rising continues its efforts to drum up hype as it seems certain to lap Valheim when it fully releases on...
DC Universe Online adds Fortress of Solitude base and themed missions to celebrate Superman Day
I was today years old when I learned (or more likely, re-learned) that there's an official Superman Day, and that day is April 18th....
Fractured adds new playable demon races and cash shop with its May 8th Invasion update
Dynamight Studios formally announced Fractured Online's next patch last night: Dubbed The Invasion, it heralds the arrival of two new player demon races, specifically...
Mortal Online 2 opens a new dungeon, adds new mounts, and tweaks sieges with its latest update
Testing is over and release is here: Mortal Online 2's latest content update is live this week, opening the doors to a new dungeon,...
World of Warcraft adds videos and Q&A on the War Within, dynamic flight, and more
We hope you World of Warcraft fans brought a big appetite for The War Within this week because Blizzard doesn't seem in the mood...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming checks out Your Only Move is Hustle
Fighting games aren't normally the purview of our stream team (except for that one time), but that doesn't mean MOP's MJ and Chris can't...
World of Warcraft shows off the ways that Warbands will share currency, items, and reputations
Your Warband is going to share everything. Clothes, money, social standing, even boyfriends. That's the big takeaway from the new entry on Warbands from...
The Quinfall will let you dress up your horse and have a hornet for a pet
Gameplay videos are continuing to spill out from Quinfall, this time granting curious players a look at the current pet and mount systems that...
The Stream Team: Hunting for the big robot doggos in Helldivers 2
OK, so they're technically called factory striders, but MOP's Chris sees them as giant robot dogs. Robot dogs packed with guns that kill. So...
Gaijin’s ocean adventure MMO Age of Water delays early access a week
Gaijin's seafaring survival MMO Age of Water was intended to rolled into the smooth ocean of early access tomorrow, but it's choppy waters instead,...
Lost Ark’s Darkness Unleashed is live with the Thaemine Legion Raid and gear transcendence
Amazon has successfully patched Lost Ark's April update as of this morning: Dubbed Darkness Unleashed, this is the patch with the Thaemine Legion Raid,...
Chronicles of Elyria’s Jeromy Walsh holds a ‘fireside chat’ that’s long on promise but short on timelines
Jeromy Walsh, the remaining developer on the multiple pieces of Chronicles of Elyria, is continuing to use his Discord server as a place to...
The Daily Grind: What are the most intimidating bears in MMORPGs?
Last week I was in Montana to go fly fishing, and I was told that it was bear season. All the grizzlies and black...
The Stream Team: Fashion distractions and Super Adventure Box in Guild Wars 2
It's not as if Massively OP's MJ is using Guild Wars 2's introduction of a fashion view today to distract her from the SOTO...
Tower of Fantasy debuts a teaser trailer for its April 30 Celestial Destiny update
The hype machine is beginning to spool up in Tower of Fantasy, as the shared world RPG has started talking up the April 30th...
New World talks buffs and nerfs for weapons and siege weapons coming in May
Amazon is back with another episode of Forged in Aeternum this week, this time homing in on New World's combat, although technically, player experience...
Overwatch 2’s Season 10 arrives with spunky archaeologist hero Venture
Not every archaeologist is Indiana Jones; some are actually more destructive and insane as they plunder ruins for trinkets and treasures. One such figure...
