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Blue Protocol Star Resonance ties down July 17 release date in China followed by global launch this year
Last month brought the surprise news that Blue Protocol, the anime MMORPG developed by Bandai Namco that was killed in its native Japan thereby...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 519: Kit and kabang
Justin and Bree discuss Chrono Odyssey, Blue Protocol Star Resonance, Fractured Online, Defiance, Lynked Banner of the Spark, and Wildgate, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, Palia, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus a mailbag topic on AI in MMOs.
MMO Week in Review: Blue Protocol, Warborne, and Equinox Homecoming
The MMO whose untimely demise we called the biggest disappointment of 2024 is getting another chance: This week, we learned that the revised version...
Blue Protocol is apparently coming westward as Blue Protocol Star Resonance on PC in 2025
The cancelation of Blue Protocol in the west and the subsequent demise of the Japanese MMORPG overseas was one of the low points of...
Tomo Endless Blue is a new anime survivalish MMO (kinda) from new studio Onibi
Former MMO and MOBA devs have unveiled a new MMO today: It's called Tomo: Endless Blue, and it's launching on Steam next year. It's...
Star Resonance, the mobile/PC revision of Blue Protocol, readies another beta test in China for April 24
Eventually the game name Star Resonance is going to stick in people's minds and not summon mental images of being a spinoff of another...
Blue Protocol’s mobile remake, Star Resonance, continues testing in China
Massively OP's biggest disappointment of 2024, the premature cancelation of Blue Protocol, isn't about to be reversed by the development of a mobile remake...
Vague Patch Notes: My favorite five MMO columns of the year edition
So I don't usually do these for a couple reasons. For starters, they always feel kind of like self-promotion, an activity that I am...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Disappointment, which was awarded to Digital Extremes abandoning Wayfinder last year....
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
China’s mobile Blue Protocol ARPG rebrands as Star Resonance with a new test for December
We're all being reminded that Blue Protocol is technically not dead all over again. Readers will remember that a mobile version of the anime...
Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid MMO hype until it launches for real?
The cancellation of Blue Protocol, while not unforeseen, still stings. It seemed to have potential and was a pretty hefty new MMO in a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 483: Singing the Blues Protocol
Justin and Bree discuss the demise of Blue Protocol, WoW's War Within launch, RuneScape's sub fee hike, and Wizard101's console ambitions, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on MMO cosmetic gear, Ultima Online as a survival game, and sticking to a vision as MMOs age.
Betawatch: Blue Protocol departs the MMO beta list (because it’s dead)
After so many delays and so much waiting, the good-ish news is that people waiting for Blue Protocol finally found out what was happening...
Tencent’s Blue Protocol Mobile goes into closed beta testing in China (sigh)
Hey, remember when Blue Protocol completely ended the Japanese version and western launch? Yeah, that still really stings, thanks for bringing it up. As the...
Vague Patch Notes: When did Blue Protocol really die?
It was the middle of the night, for us, when we heard the news: Blue Protocol is dead. It will never be receiving a...
Blue Protocol is shutting down in Japan and will not be localized for the west
The writing has appeared to be on the wall for a while now, but it's now official: Blue Protocol is being shut down in...
Betawatch: Bree said if I don’t talk about Stars Reach my cats are gonna get it
No, really, I am not kidding. Bree has been freaking out nonstop since she found out literally anything about Stars Reach. It is all...
