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Hearthstone devs admit that they ‘fell short’ of their ‘goal of introducing enough

It doesnt appear that many people are happy with Hearthstones recent Day of Rebirth mini-set including Blizzard itself.
Tucked into this weeks patch

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-19 0
Diablo Immortal’s next patch is ‘fleshy, gruesome, and objectively sickening’

This patch is so exciting, so bad ass!
Thats some serious Blizzard developer enthusiasm for Diablo Immortals Patch 4.1: Flesh Harvest, which is coming

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-19 0
Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning celebrates the MMO’s 17th birthday with a renown weekend

We regret to inform you if you somehow missed it that Warhammer Online has not survived since its launch wholly intact. The game did, in fact, shut do

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-09-19 0
City of Heroes Homecoming stealth-patched in a Talk Like A Pirate Day world event

Its Talk Like A Pirate Day, which means even MMORPGs that arent really very pirate-y join in the fun. This year, apparently that includes the official

Bree Royce 2025-09-19 0
Interview: Warborne Above Ashes, the guild-centric post-apoc themed PvP MMO, has arrived

Calling all large scale, guild-focused PvPers: We have a new MMO launch on the horizon with Warborne Above Ashes, which launched late last night. Back

Sam Kash 2025-09-19 0
We finally know how much Ship of Heroes will cost: $59.99 for the box and a month of sub

Its been a helluva long wait for Ship of Heroes: Expected to launch on August 18th, it has been delayed several times over Steam shenanigans, and now,

Bree Royce 2025-09-19 0
Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,

Its been a bit since we heard any new peeps over Light of Motiram, an in-development survival sandbox from Tencent that earned some snark and then a

Chris Neal 2025-09-19 0
Massively Overthinking: What bits of MMO history do people consistently misremember?

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a thread on Reddit about an MMORPG I know inside and out, and I should never have clicked on this thread, but I did, and

Bree Royce 2025-09-18 0
Hyperspace Beacon: It’s time for SWTOR to consider legacy servers

At least two or three times a year, my heart turns back to Star Wars: The Old Republic. I may only revisit for a few days or a few weeks, but no matte

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-18 0
Vague Patch Notes: Procedural generation is the mashed potatoes of MMORPG content

A couple years back, I did a column about why procedural generation does not solve the content problems in MMOs. This remains a true statement. You ca

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-09-18 0
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst name you’ve ever given a character in an MMO?

There is a character on my World of Warcraft account I have basically never played and yet refuse to delete. Why? Because his name is Grignr. If you d

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-09-18 0
Final Fantasy XI brings back its cow-wrangling Blazing Buffaloes event on September 24

In between all of the other adventures players can get up to in Vanadiel, how would you like to wrangle some livestock? The Blazing Buffaloes event th

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-09-18 0
Arc Games’ MODA Fellowship has kicked open the doors of its Steam beta for the next week

Arc Games MODA Fellowship is officially entering beta today ahead of its Steam early access, now delayed until October 16th. In other words, now is th

Bree Royce 2025-09-18 0
Lord of the Rings Online brings back its pair of pirate-themed quests for this weekend

With International Talk Like a Pirate Day arriving on Friday, savvy geeks everywhere are embracing the spirit of the sea, wanton plunder, and grizzled

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-18 0
ZeniMax Online Studios’ Rich Lambert discusses aspirations for new games even post-layoffs

Even with the damage that layoffs at ZeniMax Online Studios has brought, studio game director Rich Lambert is still eager not just to push forward but

Chris Neal 2025-09-18 0
Defunct WWII MMOFPS Heroes & Generals could be coming back as a private venture

Its been a good long while since we talked about Heroes & Generals here at Massively OP, mostly because the 2016 World War II MMO shut down back in 20

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-18 0
Perfect Ten: Online action RPGs for your fast-paced loot explosion cravings

When you want that sweet-and-salty combination of online RPG progression and rapid-paced combat with tons and tons of mostly disposable loot, the acti

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-17 0
The Daily Grind: What MMOs changed their reputation over time for the better?

I dont think Ill ever get over the crazy saga that was, and is, No Mans Sky. From a crowdfunded project that promised the (literal) stars to a disappo

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-17 0
Heralds of Oblivion, the prelude event for EverQuest II’s 22nd expansion, has begun

Were on the cusp of fall here in MMORPG land, and that means a couple of things that always happen: The Daybreak MMOs push out major expansions. EverQ

Bree Royce 2025-09-17 0
Massively OP Podcast Episode 534: Camelot uncertain

On this week’s episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree and Justin talk about Camelot Unchaineds 2025 prospects, the launches of Eterspire and Warbor

Justin Olivetti 2025-09-16 0
Choose My Adventure: Putting together a Sniper in Star Wars The Old Republic

Im not going to ever really suggest that story content in Star Wars: The Old Republic is challenging. Nor am I going to call that a demerit against th

Chris Neal 2025-09-16 0
The Daily Grind: What’s some great MMO content that you still don’t wanna do?

I have long held the belief that Star Wars Galaxies Legends farming is really good. SWG always needed some proper farming to go with harvesting and mi

Bree Royce 2025-09-16 0
Stop Killing Games is all but assured of a hearing in the EU for its petition

So lets catch everyone back up on Stop Killing Games, the movement started by Ross Scott inspired by Ubisofts atrocious handling of The Crews sunset.

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-09-16 0
Following the removal of multiplayer service, Fae Farm has been sold off to a new group of studios

You could be forgiven for thinking that Fae Farm was done and over with after the implosion of Phoenix Labs and closure of Dauntless earlier this year

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-09-16 0
Rockstar apparently reconsidered job posting calling GTA6 the ‘largest game launch in history&

Theres a fine line between knowing your worth and losing all sense of humility, and its probably safe to say that Rockstar crossed that line here. App

Bree Royce 2025-09-16 0

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