The Stream Team: A look at Warframe's Deimos: Arcana update
Massively OP's MJ is taking a short break from The Glassmaker investigation so she can check out the latest Warframe update, The Deimos: Arcana. With more underground levels and Isolation Vault bounties, she has the opportunity to face new creatures and gain new rewards. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. to return to Deimos. What: Warframe […]
Betawatch: Dual Universe's beta purge
No one likes feeling like playing a game's beta is a grind, and no one likes losing access to a beta unexpectedly. So it's a bit of a bad look that Dual Universe has managed to hit both of those milestones, with players complaining about the grind even as they note some accounts being nixed for supposedly […]
Astroneer's graphics boost and holiday update are live – do you wanna build a spaceman?
Well this might just be the cutest thing I've seen all day, but then again I'm writing this at 11 a.m. and the day is far from done, so let's see what else you got, MMOs and MMO adjacent titles. Right now, my eyes are on Astroneer, whose holiday update is live now with tons […]
Monster Hunter Rise shows off a new area, new beasts, and returning foes in a trailer
The upcoming multiplayer RPG Monster Hunter Rise was present at last night's Game Awards, joining in on the cavalcade of trailer premieres. The game's latest video offered fans a lot of action and some pretty music to go along with it. In the video, players get a look at two new beasties: Bishaten, which uses […]
Winter holiday events in Runes of Magic, AQ3D, Blades, SWGemu, Destiny 2, Champions Online
While our big winter holiday MMO roundup event isn't coming out until next week, the snowflakes are piling up around us anyway and we've got to start digging out! Here are a few of the events you might want to spend your December doing: Champions Online – This one's already live: "It's the most wonderful […]
Bless Unleashed highlights UI and UX adjustments coming to PC in the next closed beta
With the next PC closed beta looming for Bless Unleashed, the devs are keen to showcase how they're making changes to accommodate players on the platform. Previously, there was talk about general gameplay adjustments, but in the latest post it's all about the UI and UX experience. A number of mouse-specific UI features will be […]
League of Legends releases its new champion Rell the Iron Maiden
Ready for some heavy metal? Then you're ready for Rell, the latest League of Legends champion. As we've mentioned before, Rell is a tank support character who uses her ferromancy magical powers to mold metal either into a hulking suit of armor or a fast-moving metallic steed. For those who are looking for a rundown […]
Activision banned a 6-year-old gamer trying to stream Warzone with his dad
One of the best parts of having little kids is slowly bringing them into some of your favorite games, especially MMOs and co-op games where you can play with them and teach them the ropes. But as every parent knows, you've got to be a smidge circumspect about it since technically, most online games bar […]
The Stream Team: Bush whacking and lich challenges in AdventureQuest 3D
It's bush whacking time! On top of that, it's also lich whacking time! Not only is Massively OP's MJ finally level 31 and able to partake in the lich challenge to defeat Noxus (again), but AQ3D has also released the big bush bash update. Remember those golden cards from beating the giant bush before? Now […]
World of Warcraft's factionless panda DoubleAgent hits level 60
Pandaren were the first and thus far only race added to World of Warcraft not automatically signed onto a faction upon creation; you started on the Wandering Isle and had to pick your faction at the end of a quest chain. The player of DoubleAgent decided to eschew that choice, and thus the panda in question […]
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP's 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in a century disrupts everything and makes gaming really weird." So nope, we're not fortune tellers here. We know MMOs, but there are some things you'd need to have been an epidemiologist […]
Lord of the Rings Online now lets you change your character's race
If your Lord of the Rings Online Dwarf secretly yearns to walk in the secret ways of the Elves, or if your Hobbit would like to finally grow up and become a Man, then there's good news on that front. Apparently LOTRO got into the business of extreme plastic surgery because now there's a way […]
Massively OP's 2020 Awards: Best MMO Trend of 2020
MassivelyOP's end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Trend of 2020, which last year went to the rise of rogue servers. This award is meant to highlight a pervasive trend that we can identify and actually appreciate seeing in the industry. Don't forget to cast your own vote in the […]
Check out Star Citizen's new crow-shaped spaceships arriving in update 3.12
In Star Citizen's penultimate episode of its weekly video series, fans of the developing title are getting a close look at some (literally) shiny new ships and a host of other features in the works for update 3.12 and beyond. Leading the episode is a close look at the Talon and Talon Shrike, two light […]
WoW Factor: The strange diegetics of the Shadowlands
So hey, everyone may be totally immortal right now in World of Warcraft. That seems like a thing we should examine now, huh? I freely admit that this week I just mostly feel like being a little silly and don't have something serious to pick at. So as is often the case in that situation, I […]
Fallout 76's next season begins on December 15 as fans fight in-character wars and raise money for charity
The Game Awards have roared on by, leaving in its wake moments of cringe, reason for people to debate the award winners, and (perhaps more importantly) a bunch of trailers. One such trailer comes from Fallout 76, which is primarily a rundown of its past year of updates along with some self-back patting, but the […]
Mad World drops a new gameplay video, doesn't appear to be launching this year
So, Mad World. Hi. What the heck is going on with you? We've been watching this Jandisoft game for literally years now: It's the isometric, grimdark MMO that was supposed to launch on Steam in 2018, then planned an alpha in 2019, then announced another delay following a publishing deal with Netmarble. This past summer, […]
Cyberpunk 2077 appears to have the biggest PC launch of all time
It turns out a lot of people want to live in a cybernetic dystopia other than the one we are presently engaged with, based on the pre-orders for Cyberpunk 2077. Developer CD Projekt Red has shared some statistics, and among others it looks like the game is currently in the second-place spot for digital sales on launch […]
Warframe jumps onto the Epic Game Store with a free weapon bundle
Warframe can't be stopped. We all know this. We've all seen the prophecies that show us how the popular shooter will spread to all of the corners of the universe until being caught not playing Warframe will result in instant execution. So just accept the fact that this online RPG is now available on the […]
The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2020?
We've had some brutal years for MMORPG sunsets. But surprisingly, this wasn't one of them. I mean, yes, we lost games, but not as many, and none of the truly big ones. I mean, sure, bungled games like Crucible made headlines, but how many of you even remember that 2020 was the year Frostkeep shuttered […]
The StreamTeam: A Bargain of Blood in Dungeons and Dragons Online
Massively OP's MJ: Celebrating the season with Pirates! For the next adventure in DDO's pirate saga ("Bargain of Blood"), the D&D night crew was hired by merchants of Stormreach to thwart the pirates of the Blood Tide who are ransacking ships and then selling the goods back at their own Bargain Bazaar. Can the crew […]
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2020
We have a fun end-of-the-year tradition on MOP to recap the best and worst MMO developer quotes of the year. In fact, I keep a little list of them as we go so I have them ready when this post comes along – both the quotes that give us hope for the genre and the […]
Elder Scrolls Online's Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert's big reveal, ARK 2, and Elite Dangerous Odyssey preorders
We're updating the end with the big news and videos as they roll in! Even as our own awards have begun rolling out, the broader industry is feasting tonight on Geoff Keighley's Game Awards, which have spiked in prominence (the NYT apparently called it "the Oscars for the gaming world") over the last few years […]
Valorant patches in map adjustments and a snowball fight, joins in on a digital art and music festival
It looks like the multiplayer shooter Valorant is keen on trying to balance being a competitive video game as well as a digital place for social happenings. Much like a certain other shooter. Keep chasing that dragon, guys; you almost got its tail. On the video game side of the coin, the latest patch has […]
The Cycle's 3.5 season extension blankets part of the game world in Christmas cheer
Happy patch week for fans of the early access MMOFPS The Cycle: Developer Yager has released Season 3.5, an extension for the third season dubbed Stormchasers. Notably for the hardest core players, 3.5 includes 50 more Fortuna Pass levels (if you'd already paid for the Fortuna pass, the new stuff is included), along with new outfits, […]
RuneScape unleashes Raksha the Shadow Colossus of Orthen, OSRS unleashes Christmas
One game has deigned to drop a colossal boss monster. The other has unfurled its holiday plans. Which one sounds like a cozier time to you? You've got your choice in RuneScape and Old School RuneScape as both games have had some pretty sizeable updates today, even if they are thematically divergent. Until you picture […]
Final Fantasy XI brings out new story and new Ambuscade foes with its latest update
Enjoying the Voracious Resurgence storyline in Final Fantasy XI, either for the story itself or just because it's more story content when the game seemed destined not to receive any more of that? Because the latest version update has arrived, and that means more Voracious Resurgence as well as the usual monthly cycle of new Ambuscade […]
ArcheAge brings new Chronicles quests, reopens Auroria, and adds a new community center December 17
Mark your calendars, ArcheAge players: Thursday, December 17th, is bringing a new content update with a host of new things to explore and experience for both ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained. At the top of the list is the expansion of the Chronicles quest line series as players are tasked to learn more about a presence […]
Titan Reach shares details of its quest system, new armor, and new map in latest dev blog
Titan Reach is starting to make good on its promise of more communication as the devs of the old-school-styled MMORPG have posted a fresh new development blog to showcase some of its progress. First on the list is work on a new questing system that can allow the team at Square Root Studios to put […]
Blade & Soul's final major update of the year includes a new specialization and heroic dungeon
The last update for Blade & Soul this year arrives on December 16th, and it brings with it a third specialization for Blade Dancer. The new Way of the Grim Blade allows you to summon a spectral Grimreaver to join in on your slashes, with its attacks assured of causing nightmares. That seems less effective than […]
Dual Universe releases 0.23 beta patch as players lament grind and invalid keys
Dual Universe studio Novaquark patched up the beta this week, adding a range of quality-of-life and economy fixes with its 0.23 release. Most notably and as promised by the company's earlier dev blog, the patch notes include ship canopies, internal schematic banks for industry units, better map drill-downs, graphical improvements, changes to buy orders, tweaks […]
Vague Patch Notes: Defining the vague mass that is the MMO community
The community is important when it comes to talking about an MMO. This is an established fact; I wrote an entire column about how the community both is and is not an MMO, after all. But the tricky element when discussing it is partly that just "the community" is already a vague and amorphous concept. […]
MMO Business Roundup: Twitch's anti-hate policies, Cyberpunk's concurrency, and the CASE Act
Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard to conduct on the streaming platform. The updated Hateful Conduct and Harassment Policy, which takes effect on January 22nd, specifically defines harassment as targeted attacks designed to "disrupt, harm and […]
Massively OP's 2020 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards! Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and assign awards to the winners (and "winners"). For the last six years now, we've been splitting our awards into individual articles so we can explain them in detail, and we're doing that again, […]
Star Citizen deep-dives the $600 Perseus gunship and its 'bespoke ammunition'
For players of Star Citizen who have questions about the in-development Perseus gunship but weren't otherwise sated by the details shared in the last ISC video, then perhaps there are some answers in a recent dedicated Q&A post. One of the first answers of note is the Perseus is currently only in the concept stages […]
The untold story of Lord of the Rings' cancelled MMORPG
Considering how popular the Middle Earth IP is, it is no surprise that there have been multiple stabs at creating a Lord of the Rings MMO over the years — including PLATO's Moria, the aborted Middle-Earth Online, our beloved LOTRO, and Amazon's upcoming Second Age title. But what you might not have known is that […]
Dungeons & Dragons Online patches in a number of Augment fixes
The newest update for Dungeons & Dragons Online has a whole lot of stuff about augments in there. Some of it is as simple as bugfixes – for example, removing legacy augments will no longer cause the color of an augment slot to swap. Others are more extensive, like how all items will now display their […]
Lord of the Rings Online starts Yuletide, improves PvP, and unlocks progression Gondor
The term "kitchen sink" gets tossed around by a lot of people who have very little experience with installing sinks, such as yours truly. But this is the only way to describe today's Update 28.2 for Lord of the Rings Online: It's a kitchen sink patch with a whole lot of everything. It's starts with […]
The Daily Grind: What are the MMOs you're worried about for the coming year?
While it's technically launching in Korea today, I'm worried that Elyon missed its ideal window here in the west due to all its redesigns and changes. There was a time when that game was pretty high on my list of things I was looking forward to, but since we've had only indirect clues that the […]
The Stream Team: Cruising into SWTOR's Echoes of Vengeance content
Did someone say new SWTOR content?! Why yes, yes they did! And that means Massively OP's Larry and MJ are taking a break from the searching for the Shroud to return to the main story. And that means you, dear viewers, get to return to Choose My Alignment! Join us live at 8:00 p.m. as […]
Sea of Thieves' Festival of Giving brings a list of seasonal events and the return of gilded voyages
Just because the game is called Sea of Thieves doesn't mean that the holiday spirit can't be felt by the pirates of the game. That spirit is felt all throughout the the Festival of Giving, which has kicked off starting today. The Festival of Giving features a host of new seasonal events. The 12 Deeds […]
MMO Business Roundup: Activision's Netflix lawsuit, Tolkien's house, Roblox in China, and more
Welcome back to another quick spin through MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Fortnite – It doesn't look as if gaming companies are feeling too hopeful about their in-person prospects in 2021. Epic Games announced that it will not be holding in-person events even next year, meaning the Fortnite World Cup will once again be hosted […]
Grim Dawn shows off more new regions and new armor sets arriving in its next update
Trust me, in true Grim Dawn fashion, I was highly tempted to spell "more" as "MOAR" in that headline, but I don't know that Bree would like that very much. Be that as it may, more is indeed coming to the multiplayer ARPG, specifically even more regions and more armor sets as evidenced by some […]
Time Warpers is a multiplayer FPS sequel of the 'incremental' idle game Time Clickers
The MMO and multiplayer game genres never seem to stop surprising me. For instance, I was not necessarily aware of the "incremental game" sub-genre, which sounds a bit like simply surviving waves of enemies and growing stronger, kind of like Risk of Rain 2. With that in mind, allow us to introduce you to Time […]
EVE Online kicks off a ton of seasonal events for its icy-themed Winter Nexus
You might not think EVE Online is the type of MMO to get festive for the holidays, but it is! Although this blend of festive is, you know, mostly trying to kill you. This year's Winter Nexus fun has a big long list of space fun themed around the season in the Northern Hemisphere. To […]
Star Wars The Old Republic's Echoes of Vengeance update is live with new story and flashpoint
Star Wars The Old Republic's Echoes of Vengeance may not be the game's largest patch ever, but it's aiming to catch the attention of the greater Star Wars fandom all the same. GU 6.2, which is live as of today, tweaks the login rewards, adjusts the emote window, and adds new ranked PvP rewards, and […]
CIG announces support for Tobii Eye Tracking technology in Star Citizen update 3.12
If you notice a weird, hollow blob squidging its way across your screen while watching some post-game footage of your time in Star Citizen update 3.12, don't be alarmed; it's just the Tobii Eye Tracker working its magic. Unless, of course, you don't have Tobii Eye Tracking hardware and software in use and you have […]
Black Desert launches the Outlaw Zone on mobile, adds Stormbringer Karanda and new moles to PC
It's another week in Black Desert, which means a couple of the game's versions have had a few new updates. Most of these updates, as one would expect, are about fighting things, whether it's new bosses, other players, or a variety of new moles. One of which is named Pudgy Mole. Now you're just trying […]
Elyon's western publisher begins promoting English website ahead of Korean launch
Tomorrow's an exciting day for Korean MMORPG fans: Elyon, aka Ascent Infinite Realm, is finally launching in the region after several years of teasing, testing, and title-changes. But what about those of us across the Pacific? While we knew the game was getting a global release, hard details on when and how have been scarce. […]
Project-V is an upcoming multiplayer online co-op title that blends MOBA and MMO dungeon raid gameplay
First off, no, this isn't Pearl Abyss' Project V where the "V" is a Roman numeral; this is Project-V, an upcoming "MOCO" (that's "multiplayer online co-op") game that seeks to combine "the teamplay and skill of a MOBA with the adventure of an MMO dungeon raid." Project-V comes by way of Vela Games, which includes […]
