Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! We’ve got quite a bit to cover today, so let’s not waste too much time with a preamble and hop right into this list of headlines. Regime change at Microsoft Gaming and Xbox: According to reporting at IGN this afternoon, Microsoft Gaming CEO […]

March 9th is shaping up to be a significant boon for Elder Scrolls Online’s community, as ZeniMax is prepping Update 49 and an array of player-requested improvements. These include free build changes, account-wide outfit slot unlocks, an increase to the furnishing limit cap, cheaper bag and bank space expansion, and a whole ton of mounts […]

The informational hits keep on coming for Elder Scrolls Online’s big ol’ March content patch, and while most of the attention has been centered on its seasons and monetization reshuffling, there’s a variety of things also landing in Update 49, namely a refresh of the Dragonknight class. The tweaks to the Dragonknight primarily focus on […]

As fans of Elder Scrolls Online already know by now, this year is bringing a shift to a seasonal content release model for the MMORPG, including new events, an eventual enfolding of DLC into the game for free, and a business model update that centers on a battle pass system. But what about the benefits […]

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 […]

Every time people discuss new things they would love to see in long-running MMORPGs, I see at least a few people speculating about things that aren’t just not happening but would fundamentally break the game. And it always makes a little twitch start up right behind my eye. It’s not that I don’t understand the […]

Yesterday, an article from investor website TipRanks circulated throughout the games industry: The rumor was that Microsoft is planning to cut somewhere between 11,000 and 22,000 jobs in January, roughly 10% of its current workforce, to allay the increased cost of data center expansion as part of the company’s hard push toward AI development. If […]

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 […]

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.” […]

Massively OP’s MJ delved into Elder Scrolls Online’s Infinite Archives, but she didn’t find everything she was looking for. Her quests include finding Fabled to kill for another soul’s vengeance plus beating more maligraphies to rout out Tho’at Replicanum, the Daedra creating enemies out of books. How dare she desecrate books like that! Tune in […]