wuxia
Battle of the betas: Tarisland enters second closed beta as Pax Dei kicks off Home Valley test
What are the chances that two big MMORPGs start key testing on exactly the same 24-hour period? Well, I don't know, but it's definitely...
Tarisland unveils Phantom Necromancer class, engages pre-downloads for November 15 beta
Remember when we supposed that the new class for Tarisland was a druid? Well, not exactly, unless of course you subscribe to the D&D...
NetEase secures new trademark for Sword of Justice, aka the wuxia MMORPG Justice Online
Perhaps there's some market in our corner of the globe that's hungry for a wuxia-styled MMORPG, or perhaps NetEase is hungry for that western...
Tarisland’s Shadow Swordsman is the flexible poisoner who takes no prisoners
Today is a momentous day for fans of Tarisland, as the upcoming fantasy MMO announced its Earthspirit Saga, a three-expansion storyline that kicks off...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
Swordsmen X Survival launches on Steam with Chinese as its only language while players pan the game
If you were seeing red flags in your mind while learning of the low-key launch date announcement from The Swordsmen X: Survival, congratulations; your...
Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Swordsman X Survival, Legend of Lunia, and X8
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's random and recurring roundup of a few MMOs you've never heard of! Maybe you've heard of some of them. You're...
Whatever happened to PixArk, Ship of Fools, and Justice Online?
Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, our intermittent roundup on MMOs and multiplayer games that have somehow slipped off our radar...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Blade & Soul’s previously delayed windwalking race event gets a new release date of November 9
Last month's Symphony of Destruction patch for Blade & Soul was meant to include a windwalking race event, but unfortunately it was cancelled because...
Blade & Soul delays release of a Symphony of Destruction event thanks to unexplained technical issues
One of the features due to arrive with Blade & Soul's upcoming Symphony of Destruction patch was a windwalking race event, which would presumably...
Tencent’s teased UE5 MMORPG is codenamed To Jin Yong, a Wuxia open world headed for global release
Last week, Tencent was gearing up to unveil a new MMORPG, teasing that it would simply be an open-world title and built on Unreal...
Massively Overthinking: Bots in MMOs – but not the bad bots
A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a provocative thread about bots - no, not those bots. Essentially, the Redditor asked whether...
Massively Overthinking: Is free-to-play as bad as we thought it’d be a decade ago?
It's 2022 and we're about to talk about free-to-play like it's 2012! Back then, the conversation was all about which MMORPG would fall to free-to-play...
Chinese martial arts MMORPG Justice Online announces western release but it can be played via cloud gaming now
Have you heard of Justice Online? Unless you live in China, probably not: It's a martial arts MMORPG based on a wuxia novel by...
Martial arts survivalbox The Swordsmen X Survival details planned features as it eyes a 2022 launch
Last July, we wondered what happened to the Age of Wushu franchise, and in our digging around we came across The Swordsmen X: Survival,...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 pulls back the curtain on narrative design
Guild Wars 2 Associate Narrative Director Bobby Stein has an interesting essay up about "shepherding stories" for the MMO with a focus on diverse...
Tree of Savior adds Luchador class, previews Sadhu rework and Hwarang archer
Whatever happened to Tree of Savior? Despite the fact that the isometric MMO made it to a top ten list of MMORPGs we've already...
Whatever happened to the Age of Wushu franchise?
This story has something of an interesting progression to it. It began with a dive into whatever happened to Age of Wushu, which then...