MJ Guthrie    Earth Day is all about focusing on helping the world, and for Massively OP’s MJ, that includes the land of Lore It’s especially important when giant trees have sentience and can swat her for any negligence. The Voice of the Forest, an ancient tree in Heartwood Forest, has sent out a plea for aid...

Eliot Lefebvre    Like Oscar Isaac folding his arms and lowering his head with an exasperated sigh, we must report to you that somehow, World of Warcraft testing has returned. If you consider testing for the next expansion to be the equivalent to full beta tests for new games, which I don’t, but it does mean that...

Chris Neal    The prime access Frame that’s on offer in Warframe is about to cycle once again: The time manipulating, gadget flinging character Protea is confirmed to be the next Prime Frame up for grabs on Wednesday, May st, for every platform the multiplayer shooter is playable on. Like other characters of...

Chris Neal    Currently, the sandbox MMORPG Past Fate is in a closed alpha state except for when it deigns to run open alpha tests . It would appear that developer Icy North is ready to move to its next step if its roadmap projections are hit, as it plans to move towards an early access release near the

Eliot Lefebvre    If you are still waiting on a non VR PC port of Zenith The Last City something studio RamenVR did promise Kickstarter backers many moons ago , you can probably just let go of that wait. If you were waiting for the game to be available on the PlayStation, on the other hand, you’re getting that. The...

Eliot Lefebvre    While lots of players were very happy to have the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail benchmark this past Sunday, there was some discontent. Odd lighting issues in character creation led to some weird traits, some textures were visibly lower quality, and so forth. And you should take heart that if you...

Andrew Ross    As we mentioned in our monthly Pokemon Go event round up for April, the game recently introduced new avatars on April th, despite lots of negative feedback during the testing phase on live servers in select parts of the world. Complaints included major clipping issues, models having long arms...

Bree Royce    Last week, multiplayer survival sandbox were treated to yet another entry in the field: Planet Crafter, a game I’ve had on my own wishlist for ages and it’s now fully out of early access and into the world of launch. Studio Miju Games characterizes it as a space survival open world terraforming...

Chris Neal    MOP’s Chris likes tanking. He likes cats. He likes magic. He likes large weapons. And lucky for him, The Elder Scrolls Online lets him have all four of these things with the Necromancer class. This is absolutely what’s happening, today at : p.m. EDT What: The Elder Scrolls Online Who: Chris...

Bree Royce    Last year, we did a Daily Grind asking about interest in a My Little Pony MMORPG, and y’all reminded me that we actually have one: Legends of Equestria, a fan run MMO that has managed to exist for many long years over years in spite of Hasbro being Hasbro. But we have some sad news

Eliot Lefebvre    For those of you who long to begin the blood drenched path to mastery with Albion Online’s Season , you should know that the path has already begun. All right, we’re exaggerating a little; the path technically doesn’t begin until April th for the game’s American and Asian servers. European...

Chris Neal    When Overwatch launched its th season, one of the big ticket features was a mythic skin shop, but it decided not to divulge just how that worked until shortly after the update released. Now we perhaps know why, because it’s all tied to the premium battle pass and its cash shop. The mythic skin ...

Chris Neal    What does a nuclear apocalypse do to a place like Shenandoah National Park Fallout players are now able to find out at least in part with the first portion of the Skyline Valley update, now available on the PTS. This test build of the update that fans first got wind of last

Chris Neal    What will fans of the EverQuest franchise get for their buy in between and to be part of Daybreak’s upcoming Fippy Fest fan convention Besides a bunch of goodies, anyway The company’s Darkpaw Games has finally provided the information that fans were probably more interested in hearing...

Eliot Lefebvre    There’s an interesting aspect I’ve observed about World of Warcraft as we slowly creep toward the release of The War Within. No one who has an interest in this game is excited about the expansion but at the same time, everyone is. And no, this isn’t a matter of just looking at two opposing...

Chris Neal    For the past several weeks, Star Citizen has been talking up the features of its upcoming alpha ., often calling it one of the sandbox’s largest content updates yet. However, it looks as though CIG made some adjustments to just what features will land for the initial alpha build, as the game’s...

Chris Neal    The time has come for those who signed up or bought in to test the next expansion of World of Warcraft: The self described public alpha one version of The War Within has opened up to testers this week and brought with it its first set of patch notes for the current build. Major features for

Justin Olivetti    Even as Lord of the Rings Online’s th anniversary gets underway this week, Standing Stone Games is already laying the foundation for the MMO’s next big chapter. Last night, the studio announced that it began testing Update on the Bullroarer server, primarily to see how some load balancing...

Chris Neal    The name of Brian Holinka will very likely be familiar to MMORPG fans, primarily for his work as lead combat designer for World of Warcraft, so naturally it stands to reason that combat design would be one of his major foci as the gameplay design director for Fantastic Pixel Castle and its...

Justin Olivetti    In one of the darker chapters of Elder Scrolls Online’s history, this past week saw the game lock down and roll back many accounts due to an issue with the PTR that spilled onto the live servers. As ZeniMax continues to unlock and restore accounts into this weekend, the studio revealed a very...

Bree Royce    Back in December, Guild Wars boss Josh Davis told fans that alternate servers and hardcore modes aren’t a priority for ArenaNet, as the team believes it’s just trend chasing that runs the risk of alienat ing the game’s existing fans and usually doesn’t pan out. At the time, we opined...

MJ Guthrie    Diaries litter Ravenloft. Massively OP’s MJ wants to read them er, clean them up. Who wants stuff strewn around the landscape Besides, privacy is not an option when you are a bloodthirsty villain With lore bits lost all around DDO’s best zone, of course MJ is going to seek out as many pages as...

Bree Royce    Back in March, MOP reader Exarch Cathedra posted a comment to a Daily Grind about daily logins and sticky MMOs that caught my attention, and not just because it was a cute pun. If I care enough about a game that an inducement gets me to log in it will generally prove sticky, especially if

Chris Neal    Since , Neverwinter has been trying to do new things with the battle pass model, and now it’s looking to try out a new layer to the whole system when the Adventures in Wildspace module releases, as the upcoming Sidereal Voyages battle pass will introduce a spill over XP mechanic that adds the...

Chris Neal    Tarisland is continuing its multi day lineup of answers to Discord member questions, as days two and three have brought another couple of rounds of insight specifically about PvP, economic matters, and play between PC and mobile, among other things. While PvP is mostly contained to a v arena,...

Justin Olivetti    Many live service games would give anything to see success numbered in the tens of millions, which makes Sea of Thieves’ current accomplishment that much more special. This week, Rare announced that the pirate PvP sim has enjoyed million players across all platforms since its launch in . ...

Bree Royce    Vampire survival sandbox V Rising continues its efforts to drum up hype as it seems certain to lap Valheim when it fully releases on May th, and the latest comes in the form of a new trailer for the game’s impending new endgame zone, Ruins of Mortium. As the story unfolds, players discover the...

Eliot Lefebvre    After being delayed approximately four thousand times, to the point that we were even making jokes about it to the date it released, how has Ubisoft’s piratical online adventure Skull Bones worked out Well, it has been two months since the launch and the game is on sale for off already. That...

Bree Royce    I was today years old when I learned or more likely, re learned that there’s an official Superman Day, and that day is April th. Not coincidentally, today is April th Hey, that would make today the perfect day to celebrate Superman in DC themed video games, wouldn’t it Daybreak obviously...

Bree Royce    We’ve all been figuratively holding our breaths to see what would happen with Palia after the last month of mess, and now the game is taking a few tentative steps forward but maybe not the ones players might hope for. Readers will recall that Palia studio Singularity raised a whole lot of...

Bree Royce    If you’ve been enjoying our tours of our favorite City of Heroes supergroup bases and portal hubs on the officially licensed Homecoming servers, then you’re in for a treat as the Homecoming community team has unveiled a new project to help players find and access cool bases in game, complete with a...

Chris Neal    Entropia Universe has not been one to ignore a big shiny bandwagon remember that this MMO has tried to hawk egg NFTs and seen its players pay eye watering amounts of real world money in some cases for absurd digital ephemera so now it’s decided to join the chorus of AI faithful by announcing...

Tyler F.M. Edwards    I’m pretty blasé about most monetization in games, but there are a few things that I don’t like, and charging for early access is near the top of the list. I don’t like the idea of paying for an unfinished product, and far too many early access games never launch or limp across the finish

Bree Royce    Dynamight Studios formally announced Fractured Online’s next patch last night: Dubbed The Invasion, it heralds the arrival of two new player demon races, specifically blood demons vampires and hellfire demons infernals . It’s official: The Invasion, the second major update to Fractured Online...

Eliot Lefebvre    This week, MOP’s Chris ran afoul of the MMO meta when he was going through New World. Only he didn’t, not really. He ran afoul of something that looks a lot like the meta, but it really isn’t; he ran afoul of bad design. But it ties into ideas of meta and balancing that I’ve

Chris Neal    Testing is over and release is here: Mortal Online ’s latest content update is live this week, opening the doors to a new dungeon, adding new mounts, and adjusting its siege gameplay. The new dungeon is known as the Sylvan Sanctum, which can be found somewhere in Myrland and that’s all the...

Tyler F.M. Edwards    After causing a stir with some small patches late last year and earlier in , Blizzard s MOBA Heroes of the Storm is back again with its biggest patch yet since entering maintenance mode in . Currently in testing on the PTR, the update is still a relatively small patch by the standards of...

Justin Olivetti    We hope you World of Warcraft fans brought a big appetite for The War Within this week because Blizzard doesn’t seem in the mood to shut up this week about this fall’s expansion as it sits on the cusp of beta testing. Last night, we covered preorders for the physical collector’s edition and the Ion...

Bree Royce    When last we looked in on Legends of Aria, it was fading fast into unfortunate obscurity. The Kickstarted MMORPG originally known as Shards Online had been one of many crowdfunded throwback MMOs from the mid aughts, but it struggled to find its voice and its playerbase once it actually launched...

Eliot Lefebvre    Back around the time when I first was getting my sea legs on Massively that was, donating to an MMO Kickstarter was basically a rite of passage. There was a sense among certain wings of the industry that this was the wave of the future, and when some of those games released we’d all see the results...

Chris Neal    Fighting games aren’t normally the purview of our stream team except for that one time , but that doesn’t mean MOP’s MJ and Chris can’t watch someone else play a fighting game. And better yet, this one is turn based, so maybe they’ll have an idea of what’s going on That’s the hook for Your Only...

Eliot Lefebvre    Your Warband is going to share everything. Clothes, money, social standing, even boyfriends. That’s the big takeaway from the new entry on Warbands from World of Warcraft, which shows off the ways that Warbands will have numerous reputations from Dragonflight as well as new reputations rolled...

Chris Neal    The wave of job cuts flooding the games industry doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon, as this time around Grand Theft Auto publisher Take Two Interactive has announced it’s laying off of its workforce, or employees in total. The round of firings is part of a series of wider cost...

Bree Royce    Earlier this week, Elder Scrolls Online players were annoyed by a nasty bug that duplicated their efforts between the PTS and North American live servers, resulting in downtime for everyone on the server and a serious rollback for a sizable number of accounts affected. Last night, ZeniMax Online...

Chris Neal    Summer is cancelled. No, we’re not just saying that because we don’t handle the heat very well; we’re saying that the large new summer event that RuneScape was working on has been completely cancelled in order for Jagex to focus its efforts on more permanent content. This mid development shift in...

Chris Neal    Gameplay videos are continuing to spill out from Quinfall, this time granting curious players a look at the current pet and mount systems that will be in the MMORPG. The footage begins with a peek at some of the many pets that players can have run alongside them, from expected critters like dogs,...

Bree Royce    Blizzard has been busy the past week, and now it’s turned its attention back over to Hearthstone, which officially launched its Battlegrounds Duos mode last night, alongside the game’s seventh season of battlegrounds play. Battlegrounds Duos is a new Mode within Battlegrounds, the studio explains...

Chris Neal    OK, so they’re technically called factory striders, but MOP’s Chris sees them as giant robot dogs. Robot dogs packed with guns that kill. So it’s time for he and his best friend to go on the hunt Join him today at : p.m. EDT as he tries to pet the robodogs with heavy ordinance What:

Bree Royce    Last Oasis has been a side eye magnet in the MMO world for a few years now. The woodpunk survival MMORPG had the misfortune to launch into early access in March , right as the west was confronting the COVID pandemic, and it struggled badly, at one point going offline for a full week and...

Bree Royce    Gaijin’s seafaring survival MMO Age of Water was intended to rolled into the smooth ocean of early access tomorrow, but it’s choppy waters instead, as the publisher and studio Three Whales have begged players for an extra week. Age of Water humbly asks for one more week of waiting, the devs write...