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New World will be a featured IP in Amazon’s new Secret Level animated series

During this afternoon’s Opening Night Live at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Amazon’s Prime Video label announced Secret Level, a “new adult-animated anthology series” specifically featuring video games. And naturally, among those video games is New World. “Part of our vision from the beginning is to develop and publish fantastic IPs that immerse and excite players […]

Overwatch 2 banned 500K cheaters ahead of its season 12 launch today

Overwatch 2’s fight against cheaters and bad player behavior continues on, and while it’s likely a never-ending war, Blizzard is opening its latest player behavior-focused dev blog with a victorious claim against bad apples: The studio has banned over 500K cheaters and either banned or suspended another 40K accomplices, all while promising new anti-cheat tools […]

Skull and Bones outlines keyboard and mouse control updates ahead of its August 22 Steam release

With Skull and Bones headed to Steam on August 22nd alongside the game’s new season, Ubisoft Singapore is taking the opportunity to to improve the keyboard and mouse user experience since Steam is a PC storefront. The in-house “interview” talks up efforts to make the game “feel more ‘PC'” with its adjustments, discusses the feedback […]

The First Descendant previews a new sniper, new upgrades, and new Invasion dungeons for Season One

The first season of content for The First Descendant arrives soon, and it brings with it a new form of dungeon that’s sure to delight speedrunners in the form of Invasion dungeons. Hard-difficulty operations will offer players the choice of entering the “Invasion” form of the operation, which are all about clearing out enemies as […]

Steam visually filters out ‘humorous but unhelpful’ reviews, readies new game description rules for September

Gamers who updated their Steam desktop app recently may have seen something a little new in their browsing experience: a feature that is visually prioritizing what Valve considers helpful reviews – and is thinning out the meme-filled ones. “[O]ne-word reviews, reviews comprised of ASCII art, or reviews that are primarily playful memes and in-jokes, will […]

Battle Bards Episode 233: Epic fight music

For Battle Bards’ penultimate episode, Syp and Syl explore some EPIC battle music across many MMOs. After all, if we’re going to go out in style, that style’s going to be loud enough to blast a hole in your eardrums! We also learn that nobody likes the Flute Guy. Battle Bards is the world’s first, best, […]

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Once Human celebrates over 10M downloads and Steam top-seller spots with free login goodies

There are evidently a lot of people who are eager to jump into the free-to-play survival shooter Once Human, even in spite of the game’s technical problems. That’s according to NetEase’s latest PR, which counts over 10 million downloads worldwide and some chart-topping success on Steam. In addition to the number of downloads (not active […]

Mortal Online 2 players can no longer steal life from invincible NPCs thanks to the latest patch

The days of Mortal Online 2 players using invincible targets like vendors, priests, and training dummies as juice boxes are regrettably over. That’s thanks to the sandbox MMORPG’s latest patch, which stops the Lifesteal clade gift from working against these targets. You’re going to have to drink the essence of other targets instead. Look, there’s […]

Overwatch 2 outlines Season 12’s rank reset, wave respawn, and new drive event coming to competitive play

The Overwatch 2-playing world is close to the launch of Season 12, and when it does arrive, it will bring a host of updates to the shooter’s competitive play as detailed in the game’s latest Director’s Take post. System Designer Gavin Winter outlines several new additions to the competitive scene that will arrive in the […]

The Daily Grind: Do you purposely play bad MMOs?

A while back, MOP reader Hebby joked on Mastodon that she intentionally plays bad MMOs, but even she was surprised to see a certain MMO that shall remain nameless getting coverage. So I want to talk about the idea of playing bad MMOs. At first, I was tempted to scoff; why would anyone do this, […]

The MOP Up: Spellfarers lets you dabble in moon magic

The recently launched magic life sim Spellfarers Update 0.511 arrived with “lots of fixes, including to cooking, a new stove for Ilo’s kitchen, minor transmutations, and more. Witches can now properly specialize in moon magic by casting the magic specialization spell.” And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a […]

One Shots: Remembering in peace

When a beloved player falls, a studio may honor that memory by including him or her as part of the game world. While our headlining picture isn’t the first time we’ve seen such an inclusion, it’s nevertheless heart-touching. “Death comes to us all but this player was very active in game, on the forums and […]

Almost 3000 characters broke the SWG Legends server this weekend celebrating the SOEclipse

Earlier this afternoon, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends hosted a massive event called SOEclipse, essentially the precise moment when the Legends Omega server has officially been alive longer than the original live servers under SOE. Players were invited to log in and join the devs in Cloud City for the festivities, countdown, and […]

PSA: Don’t miss Project Gorgon’s community writ-gathering challenge for game-wide goodies

If you’re seeing players in Project: Gorgon dashing around slaughtering foes willy-nilly (more than normal anyway), that’s because there’s a community-wide Writ Challenge that’s going on between now and Monday, August 19th, that is promising goodies for everyone if certain milestones are hit. The task is simple: Go out and kill enemies between levels five […]

The Stream Team: Nixing Nibbles in V Rising

Good afternoon. Have you met Mr. Nibbles yet? No? Well, neither has Massively OP’s MJ. But Today’s V Rising plan is to accomplish just that. And then she’ll go clear out the other bosses of Act I. She definitely won’t be sidetracked by building her castle… really. Tune in live at 2:00 p.m. and see […]

Last Epoch balances monsters, tweaks skills, and applies general bug fixes and updates

What’s new in the OARPG that is Last Epoch? Tweaks, fixes, and adjustments that touch on a wide assortment of gameplay matters according to the title’s two most recent patches, which affect things like monsters, abilities, nemesis monsters, and more. The updates are all generally pretty targeted, as one might expect, with highlights including a […]

Dune Awakening publishes the first of its planned monthly newsletters

If there’s one complaint that could be leveraged against Dune: Awakening, it’s that Funcom isn’t exactly generous with information about the survival sandbox MMO, unless you call mobile-aspected Tiktok-length clips of previously discussed features “communication.” That appears to be changing with the first printing of the MMO’s Communinet Signal, aka the game’s monthly newsletter. Each […]

Victorian sandbox Nightingale banks on a big summer patch to turn its fortunes around

While admitting “shortcomings” to Nightingale’s initial launch, six months into early access Inflexion Games’ devs say that they’re “proud” of the title and yet “not satisfied” with where the game is at right now, including lower player numbers. CEO Aaryn Flynn and Art and Audio Director Neil Thomson recorded a video to announce that now […]

MMO Week in Review: Bungie’s bungles, Fellowship’s fancies

Destiny 2’s Bungie volunteered to be the industry villain of the week as it slashed multiple games and teams with cancelations and layoffs as part of cost-cutting measures to rescue the Sony-owned studio from Bungie executives’ management blunders. Meanwhile, we took a look at Fellowship, pondered what theoretical World of Warcraft housing could look like, […]

Apex Legends Shockwave season adds unlimited revivals, dual-wielding, and a versus bots mode August 6

The next season for Apex Legends – you know, the battle royale shooter that wanted to double-charge players for battle passes until fans furiously pushed back – is hoping that the gameplay features of its upcoming Shockwave season will be enough of a distraction from that kerfuffle, particularly as the FPS is bringing several updates […]

One Shots: Only serious business allowed here

When the moon is crashing down onto the surface of your planet, do the following. First, blame Roland Emmerich. Second, don’t panic. Third, summon the strongest member of your party to take the alpha strike so that the rest of civilization can endure. Fourth, ask Link if he can rewind time back to the first […]

Roblox Q2 2024: Revenue rises, CFO steps down

It’s time for a fresh quarterly report, and this time it’s coming out of Roblox, which saw its second quarter earnings for 2024 rise across the metrics that ravenous investors care about while the company’s long time CFO Michael Guthrie will be stepping down. According to the report, revenue rose by 31 percent YoY by […]

Fallout’s TV show boosted Xbox Fallout and Fallout 76 engagement over five times the normal

As if we needed more confirmation that Amazon’s Fallout series generated a lot of interest in Bethesda’s video game franchise, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the games saw a huge spike of continued traffic since the show released, including Fallout 76. During this week’s Microsoft earnings call, Nadella said that “hours played on [Xbox] […]
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