year in review
MMO Year in Review: Pantheon and Path of Exile 2’s festive debuts (December 2024)
We're wrapping up our tour of the biggest MMORPG stories of 2024 with the conclusion of MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today. Thanks for...
MMO Year in Review: Moving house to Midnight (November 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
World of Warcraft shocked the genre...
MMO Year in Review: The rise of the Amazon MMORPG (October 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
October was far and away the...
MMO Year in Review: ArcheAge Chronicles (September 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
Following multiple delays, ArcheAge 2 morphed...
MMO Year in Review: War Within, Janthir Wilds (August 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
The MMO genre saw two major...
MMO Year in Review: Dawntrail, our summer destination (July 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail took July...
MMO Year in Review: A Gold Road to a new New World (June 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
Elder Scrolls Online ought to have...
MMO Year in Review: Cataclysm redux, Pandaria remix (May 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
World of Warcraft took center stage...
MMO Year in Review: Stop killing games (April 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
April was marked by renewed industry...
MMO Year in Review: The bewildering announcement of Guild Wars 3 (March 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
March brought our genre the bizarre...
MMO Year in Review: PlanetSide on the move (February 2024)
We're continuing our tour back through 2024, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP's MMO Year in Review today.
Daybreak took center stage in February:...
MMO Year in Review: City of Heroes comes home (January 2024)
Since the year we went independent as MassivelyOP, we've been taking time at the end of the year to recap every month as a...
MMO Year in Review: Come on baby Light No Fire (December 2023)
We're finally coming to our recap of the last month of 2023 and the end of this recap series with our poke into December,...
MMO Year in Review: The Worldsoul Saga (November 2023)
November played host to BlizzCon, the first in-person show for Blizzard in years, and while overall it wasn't spectacular, World of Warcraft fans were...
MMO Year in Review: Angry Earth, hungry Microsoft (October 2023)
New World opened the gates of its Rise of the Angry Earth expansion this month, driving its servers and queues to capacity all over...
MMO Year in Review: The next EverQuest Next (September 2023)
Daybreak parent company EG7 attempted to woo investors in September with nebulous plans for a new EverQuest MMORPG, perhaps the long-rumored EverQuest III -...
MMO Year in Review: The mage’s tower (August 2023)
August hasn't always been a month for major MMO launches, but 2023 certainly didn't disappoint, with Guild Wars 2's expansion Secrets of the Obscure...
MMO Year in Review: Dawn of the Entrails (July 2023)
Final Fantasy XIV unveiled its next expansion, Dawntrail, in July of this year, setting in motion what we expect will be a full year...
The Daily Grind: What MMO-related thing do you want to remember from 2023?
I did not have a good 2023. (Trust me, unless you're a personal friend, you don't know the half of it.) But now the...
MMO Year in Review: Returning to Morrowind (June 2023)
Elder Scrolls Online launched its Necrom expansion in June, sending players both to mainland Morrowind and to the spooky realm of Hermaeus Mora.
Meanwhile, Swords...