So 2025 marks the 11th year in a row when we have put together a roundup of all the MMORPG-tinged science topics we covered this year, and I’m noticing two trends worth pointing out. First, the number of MMORPGs that are running polls and surveys to actually ask their players what they think about things […]

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual awards for one more special honoree. Readers will remember that a few years ago, we decided to institute a lifetime achievement award specifically to honor an MMORPG that has made a significant contribution to the genre over the course of its lifetime and the genre’s history but may not be […]

Today we’re finishing up our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP’s weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2025! Coming in at #1 on our list is… Oh come on, you knew it was War Thunder again This award has been a tradition since 2021, when it first became mainstream news that military nerds were […]

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the MMORPG of the Year, which was awarded to Throne & Liberty last year. Longtime readers will recall that way back in 2014, our staff was so disillusioned with the new MMOs launching that we withheld this award and picked “nothing” as our […]

You know, for all the MMORPGs we cover here on MassivelyOP, the ones that speak to me personally enough to actually capture my precious free time are few and far between. In 2025, while I at least dipped a toe into a long list of games, the ones I submerged in can be counted on […]

So here we are, at the top of a new year, 12 whole months of screwing around in video games laid out before us. In tonight’s Massively Overthinking, we have but one question: What are you gonna do with those 12 months?! I’m asking our writers and readers to rattle off what they think will […]

Today we’re continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP’s weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2025! Coming in at #2 on our list is… Roblox’s Grow A Garden When I first heard about the viral hit Roblox MMO called Grow A Garden, I was full of snark. I mean, gardening and farming games […]

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Most Anticipated MMO, which was awarded to Star’s Reach last year. This award can be frustrating since many of the games and expansions we’re picking from here haven’t changed much as we’re still waiting on them. We’ll see how it goes in […]

Did you think Blizzard was going to leave Diablo IV players with no new shinies to play over the winter holidays? Well, you’re wrong because apparently you can spend Christmas in hell thanks to the dawn of Season of Divine Intervention next week. Also there are angels with presents. Look, there’s a theme here, and […]

When Day of Prophecy launched in Lost Ark ahead of Thanksgiving, it was missing one key component: the race to clear the Kazeros raid that headlined it. That race is now on with today’s update. Amazon kicked off the latest Kazeros the First this morning after a four-hour downtime as players across North America and […]

A new game purporting to be an MMORPG popped up on Steam this week: It’s called Dark Craft, it’s by Kazakh outfit Take Top Entertainment, and it pretty much looks like what would happen if you merged Dark Souls and Minecraft into an angsty squishmallow. “Dark Craft is the first MMORPG in the Souls-like genre!” […]

This first week of December just keeps racking up updates for MMOs and MMO-adjacent games, and that includes Fallout 76, which yesterday rather quietly updated with, you know, Ohio. OK, not all of Ohio – just the southeastern part that serves as the setting for the Burning Springs release. “A new region of the map […]

Classic Guild Wars fans divide neatly into two groups. No, not Kurzick vs. Luxon. No, not heroes or no heroes. No, not runners and runnees. It’s simple: Are you a Spamadan person floating in a sea of trade deals, or are you a kid hanging out in Great Temple of Balthazar international, complaining about your […]

On yesterday’s MOP Podcast, Justin was rattling off the immense list of MMORPGs with big launches this week, and among them was EverQuest, whose Shattering of Ro expansion formally launched last night. This is Classic EverQuest, mind you, and it has a long list of its own: Shattering of Ro is the game’s 32nd expansion, […]

The player devs behind SWG Legends dropped a new dev report over the Thanksgiving holiday with a look at what they’re working on for the largest Star Wars Galaxies rogue server. The team says it has continued its efforts on the “Bespin revitalization” project that will ideally bring life back to the game’s massive Cloud […]

Well, today is the day when Destiny 2 marries Star Wars for reasons: Destiny 2 Renegades is officially live for fans who can make it make sense in their head or just, you know, love the heck out of lightsabers and John Williams-esque music. Which is most of us. “Today, Bungie launches Destiny 2: Renegades, […]

Oh sure, it’s only been a week since City of Heroes Homecoming’s issue 28, page 3, went live with a big ol’ revamp for Masterminds and the new sonic set for melee toons, but in case that update wasn’t your vibe, you can gear up for the game’s winter events instead. “The snow has started […]

Will today’s Elder Scrolls Online dev blog make Elder Scrolls Online fans happy? Actually, does anything? Let’s find out: This afternoon, ZeniMax Online Studios released a post discussing its planned class revamp, which it says was inspired by player feedback on “pain points” in the class system. Don’t worry; nobody’s using the term “class fantasy.” […]

Last week, we covered the weird news that Embracer was in the process of divesting itself of Arc Games, which is the publishing outfit formerly known as Perfect World Entertainment that it bought only four years ago. Well, that wasn’t really the weird news; the weird news was that in the same presser, Embracer implied […]

This past summer, MOP’s Justin mentioned a joke about Navy vessels having a goat mascot aboard, which was sadly debunked by MOP reader and Navy vet Bullwraith. Alas, no boat goats for us. But it did provoke another thought: There are some really ridiculous conceits in MMORPGs that we just let slide! For example: the […]