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‘Political, dynamic, and unapologetically brutal’: Early impressions of Dune Awakening
I stood there almost naked, staring across the desert the north as my hydration quickly dropped. I had no gear and no base and...
Daybreak is chasing EverQuest emulator operators from The Heroes Journey in court
Never let it be said that nobody cares about classic EverQuest: Half a dozen readers tipped us last night about a legal mess brewing...
Riot’s Minecraft-inspired Hytale MMORPG has been canceled – its studio is closing too
If you can remember just four months ago, MOP's Chris did some digging into Hytale, an MMORPG whose development we'd been covering since 2018....
Funcom is retooling Dune Awakening’s PvP endgame to be more PvE-friendly after all
Dune Awakening is on the move, fam, and Funcom doesn't mean to let anyone forget it. This morning, the studio released a launch infographic...
LOTRO Legendarium: What should Lord of the Rings Online’s kinship refresh include?
It does seem as though Standing Stone Games has been talking about a "kinship refresh" for Lord of the Rings Online for years now,...
Sandbox MMORPG BitCraft Online has officially released to Steam early access
It's been a bit of a bumpy last leg to get to this point, but after a few delays, the crafting and exploration sandbox...
Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, in its latest live letter
The latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter has showed off the game's next patch: patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, is slated for early August...
Anti-P2W MMO Lionhearts is on Kickstarter selling duchies and duke titles for $10,000
A few weeks back, we covered a new-to-us strategy MMO, Lionhearts - a game effectively spun out of a Roblox game by indie studio...
Vague Patch Notes: Control archetypes in MMORPGs are dead, but also they aren’t
Recently, we got a very fun podcast question from Merp asking if control/debuff archetypes in MMORPGs were dead. This is a good question! It's...
Pearl Abyss has apparently put CCP Games – and EVE Online – up for sale
According to reporting on Korean financial news site Money Today, CCP Games - and therefore EVE Online - are back on the market.
Readers will...
World of Warcraft previews its next major update, The Ghosts of K’aresh
With World of Warcraft having just deployed its most recent update, you might assume that the game is going to kick back and let everyone...
MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience
It does seem appropriate that for a series about the fight over a planet filled with a rare resource, Dune Awakening has played tug-o'-war...
A new RIFT patch is percolating for next week – the first for the MMO since 2022
Here's a pleasant shocker for mid-2025: RIFT is preparing to bring an actual patch to bear on June 24th. The Ghar Station reports that...
Perfect Ten: 10 awesome reasons to go back to older MMORPGs
Because this site is staffed by us Olds, we tend to remember the history of this ridiculous genre pretty well. This is materially helped...
World of Warcraft activates Legacy of Arathor, explains Pandaria Classic’s celestial dungeons
Don't let the double decimal points in the update fool you: World of Warcraft's latest content drop is anything but insignificant. Legacy of Arathor...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s latest seasonal server is anything but hardcore
One of my biggest frustrations with the current state of New World is that the open world has lost most of the challenge that...
MMO Hype Train: What’s the ideal path to promoting and hyping an MMO?
As much as there's a great deal to master when creating an MMORPG, there's also quite the learning experience when it comes to promoting...
Lord of the Rings Online announces the full closure of its old 32-bit worlds at the end of August
When Standing Stone Games revealed its plans for Lord of the Rings Online's new 64-bit servers, it left a little bit of leeway in...
Progress Bar: We demo’d eight Steam Next Fest games that multiplayer fans should check out
Ah, Steam Next Fest. A smorgasbord of sketchy titles and hentai games. I kid (mostly), it's also a great way to experience some all-new,...
First Impressions: Chrono Odyssey feels like a jankier New World
Ahead of its publicly available beta on June 20th, MassivelyOP was granted an early peak at Chrono Odyssey's current by the folks Kakao Games,...
