MJ Guthrie    Massively OP’s MJ will not stand for injustice And AQ D’s Roderick Lanceler needs help reclaiming the treasures of his family’s bloodline, so obviously she is going to the Scholar District in Battleon to lend her aid. Will MJ ultimately get to wield the Vorpal Bunny er, Blade Tune in live at...

Eliot Lefebvre    Remember, readers, it’s only The Quinfall if it’s a Turkish indie MMORPG that has just released into early access. Otherwise it’s just more correctly termed as sparkling downward motion on the part of a quin. It’s just a quin fall. Language requires precision, after all. We hope this has cleared up...

Chris Neal    We’re just under two weeks away from the next episode release for Destiny, and that means Bungie is bursting at the seams with sneak peeks and previews in its latest series of dev blogs that touch on changes coming to PvP activities, armor, weapons, and even content release timing. We’ll start...

Chris Neal    While Blade Soul NEO looms on the horizon here in the west, there’s still reason to hop in to the original Blade Soul this week, especially if you’re the sort of person who’s looking to celebrate the MMORPG’s ninth anniversary. Or perhaps you just like getting free goodies. We’re not judging....

Justin Olivetti    Do you gacha ’em all in Genshin Impact That’s almost impossible to do, as the fantasy online RPG continues to introduce new characters to collect and level. Arriving with February th’s Version . is Yumemizuki Mizuki, a character that benefits greatly from synergies with other teammates. Oh,...

Chris Neal    RuneScape players who were looking forward to the combat mastery achievements system projected for later this month are going to have to wait a bit longer, as Jagex has delayed its arrival to February th instead in order to make sure the feature hits wanted quality targets. This delay will not...

Justin Olivetti    If you’re looking to walk on a different side of the online gaming tracks this weekend, we encourage you to take a peek at Necesse. This early access pixel art sandbox is in the midst of its first ever free play weekend, which will conclude on January th. And what better time to check out the

Chris Neal    When you enter a game called Motor Town, you pretty much get what you’d expect on the tin; it’s a town with cars that you motor around in. Even so, MOP’s Chris and his best friend are eager to show off all of the chill and fun things there are to do while behind the

Chris Neal    This week once again has a bunch of good news for players of Black Desert, with all three editions seeing something new added in terms of content, on top of Korean fans of the MMORPG helping to raise money for a good cause. We’ll begin with the content updates first, starting off with the PC’s

Eliot Lefebvre    If you have been keeping an eye on the seemingly grim and grimy world of Kickstarted MMO Past Fate but held off jumping into the game because adipose tissue didn’t sufficiently jiggle before now why. Just a thousand different versions of why. Anyway, you can jump in now because the game is proud...

Bree Royce    As promised, MMORPG The Quinfall has officially entered early access as of this afternoon. For those who don’t quite remember The Quinfall, a refresher: Turkish studio Vawraek Technology announced the game two years ago, boasting of a massive, full featured sandbox set in the biggest MMORPG...

Eliot Lefebvre    Talking about your build in an MMORPG can be oddly contentious with people. On the one hand, you are inevitably going to have people who will critique your build because it does not have the best in slot options and you could be eking out more from your character if you just did one or two things. ...

Chris Neal    Do you recall Abyss Online It’s had an interesting development track to say the least: We first caught wind of the game in , which was described by developer Old World Labs as a sci fantasy open world MMORPG with PvE encounters, PvP battles of varying scales, and skill based progression. But...

Eliot Lefebvre    If you’re a part of the Final Fantasy XIV community beyond a certain level of engagement, you are no doubt aware of the game’s extensive modding community and the continuing debate around it. Today’s news is not about debating the ethics of that community or how the game manages it, but it comes...

Justin Olivetti    Call it the War of the Diablos: Blizzard abruptly announced that it’s delaying the start of Diablo III’s new season this weekend because it’s afraid that Diablo IV’s new season might steal its thunder. Diablo CM Adam Fletcher made the case for the delay just days before Diablo III Season was set...

Bree Royce    Updated with Amazon’s latest response at the end. Amazon’s overnight patch for New World seems to have unintentionally broken a few rather important parts of the game: Following the a.m. maintenance update this morning, multiple players across Reddit are reporting that PvP servers are bugged....

Bree Royce    The response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires this past month has been particularly strong from the gaming industry, owing to the fact that so many big game studios and their workers live and work in the impacted areas. Last night, Blizzard announced that it’s donating a million dollars to...

Eliot Lefebvre    Have you ever felt as if your real opponents in a dungeon were the other players, potentially rolling for the drops you wanted when you killed monsters Well, Corepunk is planning for its new extraction dungeon Prison Island in which players can delve in for great rewards but will have to fight...

Bree Royce    I have to credit MOP’s Chris for the phrase acceptable levels of jank here: He used in in a positive conversation we were having about smaller MMORPGs like Project Gorgon and Villagers and Heroes, when he said he liked those games. They may be slightly janky, but it balances out. And I think...

MJ Guthrie    When one saga ends, a new one begins. But which DDO quest arc will Massively OP’s MJ choose next After dealing with the madness curse in Stormreach, why not keep with the theme Harbinger of Madness it is then It’s the first of a trilogy of quest arcs involving the Plane of Xoriat having access ...

Bree Royce    When I was going through our historical awards for the debrief earlier this month, I had a little chuckle looking at the awards for Best Trend over the last years. At the end of , of course, we gave it to the resurgence of MMO expansions, which is fair; a ton of big and

Eliot Lefebvre    Most human sports were created more or less in the space when humanity decided that we needed a way of having fun contests where nobody really beat each other up, but Marvel Rivals is all about superheroes beating up other superheroes in a video game. But the Spring Festival that starts on January...

Eliot Lefebvre    The latest patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic does not deliver a big chunk of content to players or a whole bunch of new mechanics. What it delivers are fixes. If you were noticing issues with Dynamic Encounters ranging from Hoth to Tatooine, several of them have now been fixed and the XP perk ...

Bree Royce    Earlier this week, Amazon’s Tico Talks video touched lightly on the studio’s planned merges for Throne Liberty’s global edition, and now today, we’re getting a granular look at what exactly that process entails, though not yet who is actually merging. In order to normalize player distribution...

Chris Neal    It’s said that you have to spend money to make money, but what if you spent money to get miracle powers that boost your crafting output so you can make money That’s a very general synopsis for Pax Dei’s Grace system, which has officially come online for the sandbox MMORPG as promised. For those...

Bree Royce    However bad the snow is for our readers in the Northern Hemisphere, at least you’re not the Canadian Digital Extremes dev, Steve Sinclair, who is so snowed in he couldn’t even make this week’s Soulframe video. The show must go on, however, and the remaining team leads are back in the episode to...

Chris Neal    What’s next for the current year in Mortal Online Plenty according to the sandbox MMORPG’s first roadmap, which sees several stages of continued development, improvement, and content. So, you know, MMORPG evolution. The series of planned updates are broken up into four sprints, the first of...

Chris Neal    For the past few weeks, DC Universe Online has been weaving a murder mystery in the lead up to its first story arc chapter. Now, we’ve got a bunch of fresh details shared in a sneak peek video that include a release date and a name: Day of Reckoning. This first chapter in the Light and

Bree Royce    Just before the holidays, MOP’s Fight or Kite columnist Sam took a tour of a new buy to play multiplayer survivalbox called IfSunSets, Smilegate’s latest entry into the genre, which had just rolled into early access on Steam. It hasn’t exactly blown up on the platform in the last couple of months,...

Chris Neal    As the seventh phase of the Season of Discovery draws closer for WoW Classic, Blizzard has been testing and tuning some of the arguably bigger additions to the version of the MMORPG, namely the Naxxramus raid and sanctified gear. The devs open by confirming that another round of Naxxramus public...

Eliot Lefebvre    I am not someone who is an easy mark for breaking down as a sobbing mess with a sad moment in a story, which is why it surprised me when Warframe made me sob with its storytelling. If you’ve ever thought it’s a narrative light game that’s just space ninjas shooting weird dudes, this is a refutation...

Justin Olivetti    Christmas may be over, but that’s not going to stop Dungeons and Dragons Online from tossing a winter themed holiday smack in the middle of January. Heck, we could use some frosty cheer this time of year The Snowpeaks Festival is back with its signature icy course where you slide, jump, and twist...

Bree Royce    Cozy multiplayer RPG Palia is rolling out the first beta patch of the new year today, and appropriately, it’s called New Beginnings. As the teaser video makes clear, the update includes the return of last year’s Lunar New Year event, with a new glider, the Serenity Falls landscape, new themed...

Chris Neal    If you take Star Citizen’s word for it, the month of February is going to be epic, as its already got a lineup of various events and promos to offer its devotees as the game moves to its alpha . . patch. In terms of the next rounds of playable content, SC is readying the second

Bree Royce    Playable Worlds’ Stars Reach has several news bits this week, and those of you tired of hearing about the Kickstarter that hasn’t even happened yet will be happy to know that only one of them involves said Kickstarter. Let’s start with that one: Playable Worlds announced this week that everyone who...

Bree Royce    We’ve updated the end of this article with the latest status as of Thursday night. Throne Liberty is launching its . . update this morning, meaning the Lunar New Year celebration will soon be officially underway. Servers went offline just after midnight this morning as Amazon began patching...

Justin Olivetti    With the promise and potential of World of Warcraft player housing on the docket for later this year, players are understandably hungry for more information about this upcoming system. They might have a little more to go on when Patch . : Undermined arrives, as Blizzard appears to be slipping in...

Eliot Lefebvre    Whatever your MMO of choice has as a patch schedule, the game has a cadence to it. You expect certain things from a patch. A new area to explore, or new quests to do, or a new dungeon or whatever. It doesn’t matter what’s in there, just that you expect X new things to happen

MJ Guthrie    In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch the gameplay right along with you; instead of you commenting on their adventures, they will comment on yours While MJ has played Enshrouded, she definitely gets...

Chris Neal    In its first developer update video of , Sea of Thieves production director Drew Stevens is granting players a look at what the developers are focusing on in the new year, with a stated goal of improving game performance, game security, and player safety. Stevens first begins by stating that...

Chris Neal    Hi Rez substudio Titan Forge Games elected to use its recent SMITE esports event as a stage to make a couple of major reveals for the in development open beta MOBA, as this past weekend the devs unveiled plans for a new rotating battle pass style feature and laid out some new roster related...

Eliot Lefebvre    The next big patch for Terraria, patch . . , is going to be the game’s final update. Really. Wait, didn’t that already happen you ask, and you’re correct; the final update happened back in with the Journey’s End launch. But there’s always a more final update and an ever finaler update, and...

Chris Neal    If you’re a veteran Overwatch player, the words moth meta likely mean something entirely different to you than others; while some people probably envision Mercy bonking her face into a street lamp while looking confused, others recall a time when the character was able to constantly flit around...

Bree Royce    When Lunar New Year didn’t launch in Guild Wars yesterday, you probably did what we did and assumed it would launch next Tuesday, closer to the actual date. And that’s exactly what’s happening, as a tweet from ArenaNet this afternoon made clear. Things are ramping up in Divinity’s Reach with...

Eliot Lefebvre    It’s a new year in The Elder Scrolls Online as well as, y’know, everywhere else. Heck, it has been a new year for a little while now; that’s what the increasing date number means. But the Golden Pursuits campaign has just started and will run through February th, encouraging players of the game to...

Chris Neal    MOP’s Chris has once more been bracing for the next entry in the Monster Hunter series by playing through Monster Hunter World, and right now he’s at the point when high rank hunts have opened up to him for the first time. It’s a time of new danger and new creatures to slay, so join

Chris Neal    With Albion Online now making sure its season releases align with major updates, you might be interested in hearing what head of production Moritz Bokelmann has to say about it in a video, especially since he’s the guy whose job it is to ensure content production is on time. We’ve had to change a...

Bree Royce    You know, I’ve been watching Ultima Online for over years now, and I literally cannot remember any studio putting out a roadmap for the game. If this week’s newly released roadmap is a new trend, then I am a big fan Yep, Broadsword posted up a roadmap for the seminal MMORPG yesterday. Here’s...

Bree Royce    Everyone’s worried about the future of Cryptic’s MMOs post Cryptic, including us, but Star Trek Online is forging onward into with the promise of a new update next month: Star Trek Online: Unveiled launches February th on PC March th on console , just in time for the game’s th birthday....

Justin Olivetti    My very first PC was a Pentium that I purchased with my own money in the early ’ s. And I dearly loved that machine, reveling in the wonders of Windows . , configuring Autoexec.bat, and going on adventures in amazing titles like Star Trek th Anniversary, Master of Orion, and Doom. But for a...