Last year we started peeking in on Towerborne, a side-scrolling multiplayer online “looter brawler” from developer Stoic Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. The game started life in paid-for early access and was angling for a free-to-play release. MOP’s Sam found the game to be right up his arcade-loving alley, and we even streamed […]

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 […]

After rescuing Ana in Dungeons & Dragons Online, everyone now knows that she’s the very Thread of the Weave that the drow have been looking for at the command of Lolth. So the drow are gathering for an all-out attack on the village of Eveningstar to recapture her. Massively OP’s MJ will assist the Purple […]

Back in 2024 we first started reporting on Starship Simulator, an in-development multiplayer spaceship sim from indie Fleetyard Studios that pretty much offers precisely what a game of its name suggests. The title had a pretty successful Kickstarter round, raising nearly $500K, while development updates have been offered since, along with the release of a […]

While the indie devs at Loftia studio Qloud Games initially thought that it only would take three months to build the game from scratch, the truth is that it’s taken over three years (and 28 additional developers) to bring this Kickstarted solarpunk MMO to bear. Tackling the question of Loftia’s release schedule, the team said that […]

What would it take for you to check out Black Desert on the PlayStation 5 system? Maybe a lady knight who swishes a big ol’ sword around? Or perhaps you’d prefer to play for free? Well for a limited time, you’re getting both of those things, as the sandbox MMORPG is indeed completely free-to-play on […]

The fact that ARC Raiders’ use of generative AI development tools for its creation, particularly for its voice work, is a sticky wicket for many shouldn’t come as a surprise in the age of rising slop tides. Still, Embark Studios CEO Patrick Soderlund is not backing down and continues to defend the decision in an […]

By now, World of Warcraft fans are used to the multi-stage format that Blizzard employs to roll out its expansions. It’s never a one-and-done affair, is it? There’s the prepatch, the launch, and post-launch content and season unlocks. This time around, however, the studio added an extra stage in early December with the debut of […]

Yesterday was the starting gun’s firing for Past Fate’s early access, and it looks as if the sandbox MMORPG’s first steps were pretty stumbling indeed, as the game has been beset by a wide assortment of bugs, some of which are literally causing new arrivals to not progress whatsoever. Both the game’s bug reporting Discord […]

How do you feel about a new scenario in Once Human featuring a gigantic battle with a semi-submerged monstrous entity? The newest preview video from the game’s developer is promising that 2026 will be the “Year of the Monsters,” and not just because the developer quickly gets replaced by a light-headed monster to do the narrating. That […]

Welcome to the end of the year, everyone! Somehow we all got here, seriously, and that means it’s time for our annual roundup of stories and events over the last year. I’m sure that some of these will have people saying that they were not surprised by anything that happened over the course of 2025, in […]

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 […]

In perhaps one of the quietest expansion releases to date, Lord of the Rings Online welcomed Kingdoms of Harad today. This marks the third and final installment of the Song of Waves and Wind cycle that began back in Corsairs of Umbar. “The Kingdoms of Harad stand at a crossroads, their rivalries sharpening as a […]

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, […]

If you anticipated that the debut of player housing in World of Warcraft would be a hot mess, then prepare to be validated because it totally was. Last night’s launch of Patch 11.2.7 prompted a predictable stampede of players who couldn’t teleport into the housing district or change neighborhoods for lengthy periods of time. Bugs […]

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, […]

Pokemon Go’s not perfect, and there’s always something to complain about, but the winter Precious Paths season is certainly looking strong in some ways. Yes, there are some very wrong turns ahead, but there’s enough good to light a fire even in this player’s cold heart. Today’s Massively on the Go is here not just to warn […]

Although there’s been some question about whether Lord of the Rings Online: Kingdoms of Harad was going to hit its expected December 3rd release date, it looks as though things are a “go” for the latest expansion in this Middle-earth virtual universe. In preparation for this launch, Standing Stone Games reminded players to grab all […]

It was already a foregone conclusion that the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo for Star Citizen was primarily being angled as a moneymaker, but this year’s event appears to have been intensely successful in that regard, as tracking data and official funding stats show that the game’s crowdfunding total has now climbed past $900M. In total, player […]

If you were holding a vigil for Last Oasis’ Season 6 to finally get here, we hope you have the biggest candle in the world, because that sucker’s going to be burning for well over two years now. The good news is that while a release date for the game-overhauling update has yet to be […]