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Guild Wars 1’s community is organizing a massive 20th anniversary playthrough
Leave it up to the amazing classic Guild Wars community to top what ArenaNet is already doing for this legacy MMO on its 20th...
Overwatch 2 devs discuss how they effectively create and portray disabled characters
In a time when those in power are desperately trying to erase whole groups of people from the annals of history, science, sport, and...
Albion Online’s longtime game director, Robin Henkys, is stepping down
Earlier this week, MOP's staff just happened to be discussing some of the unusual cadence and developer video stuff going on over at Albion...
Obituary: Bill Petras, art director for original World of Warcraft and Overwatch, passes away
The visual style of Blizzard's games, especially that found in World of Warcraft, is evocative, immediately identifiable, and arguably a hallmark of the way...
ZeniMax Workers United, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls QA union, has voted to authorize a strike
"Hundreds" of games workers at ZeniMax Media have voted to authorize a strike against parent company Microsoft after "nearly" two years of negotiations, according...
Riot Games asks gamers to join it in donating for Myanmar earthquake relief
The countries of Myanmar and Thailand are reeling from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake this past Friday that so far gas left over 2000 people...
Marvel Heroes’ emulator project has a playable test server in Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
When last we checked in on the Marvel Heroes emulator project, the developers were basically still in the "make code go and upload to...
Wholesomeness alert: Sky Children of the Light has a spring-themed collab with The Little Prince
Now this is some transmedia synergy we can get behind because it doesn't get more wholesome than this: Cozy MMO Sky Children of the...
Star Citizen fans have put together a size comparison of in-game planets and real-world ones
Have you ever sat down and wondered, "Man, I wonder how the various planets in the Stanton system of Star Citizen compare to the...
Team Fortress 2 updates its SDK to effectively make the shooter highly moddable and customizable
Who here had "big news coming out of Team Fortress 2 in 2025" on their bingo card? Yeah, neither did we, but big news...
Project Gorgon’s Sandra Powers is memorialized in World of Warcraft – twice
Did you guys know that the late Sandra Powers, MMORPG developer and one-half of the Project Gorgon team, was once a leading figure over...
World of Warcraft’s charity fox raises over $2 million for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research
Last December, we reported on how Blizzard started selling a special fox-and-backpack bundle in World of Warcraft to raise funds to help cure Duchenne...
Conan Exiles is selling an exclusive art print to benefit LA firefighters through February 6
Do you want some unique and incredible art and help out the firefighting efforts in Los Angeles, California? Then look no further than Conan...
Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2 compensate players for recent tech and sale bungles
This is a tale of two MMO studios and how they handled recent fiascos competently. Happy Friday!
First, ArenaNet announced last night that it is...
Neverwinter Nights persistent world Arelith hits a new player concurrency record after 22 years
Three hundred eighty. That sounds like a pretty meager number when it comes to most MMO and multiplayer game concurrency records, but for the...
There’s a Final Fantasy XI zine on Kickstarter right now for your Vana’diel nostalgia tour
So how did people put together enthusiastic fan projects before we all had the internet? Why, you made a zine, of course. Assembled loosely...
Black Desert starts new arena season on PC and new high-tier content on mobile as players raise $70K for charity
This week once again has a bunch of good news for players of Black Desert, with all three editions seeing something new added in...
Blizzard donated one million dollars to a relief charity supporting California wildfire victims
The response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires this past month has been particularly strong from the gaming industry, owing to the fact that...
Activision releases charitable cosmetic bundles in Call of Duty games to benefit LA fire relief
The fires that are continuing to threaten Los Angeles are still a focal point for game developers in the California area, as Activision has...
Riot Games, still closed in LA thanks to the wildfires, opens aid fundraisers in Valorant and League of Legends
Last week, we covered the devastation happening in Southern California, where half a dozen wildfires were ripping through Los Angeles neighborhoods from working class...
