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NetEase drops a new trailer for its upcoming Wuxia...

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2025/10/16

We’ve had an eye on NetEase’s Wuxia MMO-lite Where Winds Meet since it first popped up on the radar as a major NetEase contributor overseas – and it’s slowly inching westward. The publisher announced today that it now counts 5M pre-registrations for the global version of the game due out on PC and PS5 next […]

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Co-op dungeon running ‘MODA’ Fellowship begins its...

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2025/10/16

We’ve been keeping a weather eye on Arc Games and Chief Rebel’s upcoming co-op multiplayer dungeon runner Fellowship, sharing previews of characters, open beta impressions, and three different previews with the developers. Well, the time for peeking is over and early access is here for the game, as it has begun this phase of its […]

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Nightingale leads admit that development is ‘much...

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2025/10/16

It’s been something of a regular feeling for fans of the gaslamp survival sandbox Nightingale that development on the early access title is reeling back, but the latest developer video from Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn and art director Neil Thompson basically confirms as much, as most of the discussion for a video about the game […]

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Sword of Justice, aka Justice Online, finally ties...

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2025/10/16

Talk about a blast from the unreleased past, at least as far as western MMORPG fans are concerned: Back in 2022 we first reported on plans from NetEase to bring the Chinese wuxia-styled game Justice Online to our half of the globe, with the promise of a massive open world to explore, tamable creatures, and […]

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Massively on the Go: Assessing community damage dealt...

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2025/10/16

It’s been over a year since Pokemon Go’s devs first announced the Max Battle System last fall, but as we saw with the Darkest Day Go Fest Finale, it’s a feature that pushes FOMO hard and often leads to boredom. It also helps that it’s the most expensive part of the game and that the […]

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Old School RuneScape kicks off bingo-like Grid Master...

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2025/10/16

Alert the senior citizen mafia and tell them that Old School RuneScape is liberating bingo for the entire world. That’s because the legacy MMO is running a new event called Grid Master wherein players complete a bingo-like sheet by completing a variety of tasks over a four-week period (ending on November 12th). “Play your way […]

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Vague Patch Notes: No, crypto and blockchain are not...

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2025/10/16

I’m really glad that over the past couple years, the time I spent figuring out how cryptocurrency and associated concepts work have become increasingly useless. This stuff has always been awful, so it’s glad to see that the Web3 crowd’s complete inability to get anything off the ground in any real fashion has steadily eroded […]

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Guild Wars 2 explains beta feedback and changes...

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2025/10/16

Did you find yourself playing as an Antiquarian with Guild Wars 2’s elite spec beta and realizing that it belonged in a museum? If so, you’d be wrong; the latest article on the elite specs reveals that changes are coming to the spec, like Split Deck becoming a baseline mechanic instead of a trait. In fact, […]

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Perfect Ten: 10 things that haven’t changed about the...

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2025/10/16

“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” is one of those sayings that makes my eyes cross. While that statement is poorly phrased, I can get behind the idea that certain themes, trends, and facts remain constant even amid the progression of years. Ten years ago, Massively OP was born from the […]

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Players sound the alarm over Aion 2’s dual...

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2025/10/16

When NCsoft put out a developer livestream discussing Aion 2’s features at the top of the month, one of the things that were brought up was monetization, including an optional $14 a month standard subscription and a $20 a month “premium” subscription. Now, with time, translation, and analysis, more of the game’s monetization plans for […]

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Make My MMO: Ship of Heroes’ goof-up, Project...

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2025/10/12

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. Ship of Heroes did indeed launch out of beta and into the wilds of Steam amid multiple controversies about and objections to its pricing model. […]

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Star Wars Galaxies Legends revives the Galactic Moon...

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2025/10/11

Time to get your Stinky the Hutt backpacks out of storage for trolling season: Star Wars Galaxies Legends’ Halloween event has officially arrived. Dubbed the Galactic Moon Festival, this event actually dates back to the live MMO, meaning this is technically SOE’s fault, but don’t worry; the player devs on Legends have expanded on the […]

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BitCraft Online adds new autumnal craftable items and...

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2025/10/11

Who’s ready to enjoy the other parts of the autumn season that don’t involve the spooky times? If you’re a player of BitCraft, then you’re in luck because the game’s most recent patch has added some new fall flair to gatherables and craftables. Some of us will be quite upset if there is no cranberry […]

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The Stream Team: Rushing to Dracula in V Rising

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2025/10/11

It’s finally on. The spooky month rush to Dracula in V Rising is happening now! What better time than October to focus on the King of Vampires. Massively OP’s MJ made it a goal to try and face off against this final boss before Halloween ends. Before that, she must shoot and loot her way […]

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Greg Street floats a ‘downscoped’ version of Project...

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2025/10/11

Earlier this week, MMORPG fans were reminded of the baked-in cruelty of the games industry when they learned NetEase was pulling its funding from Fantastic Pixel Castle, which in turn left the studio’s developing MMO Project Ghost in the lurch. Studio head Greg Street minced no words in the announcement, stating that if a publisher […]

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New World posts the patch notes for next week’s...

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2025/10/11

We’re now mere days away from the potentially ambitious new Nighthaven update of New World, so if you want to continue to stoke your flames of excitement and interest in what’s coming to the MMORPG, then you could probably do worse than read the patch notes that have come out ahead of the October 13th […]

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WRUP: This will cost you two hundred dollars of farts...

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2025/10/11

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our worst school subjects.

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The Daily Grind: How often do you change your MMO...

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2025/10/11

I know it’s hard, but please put aside any thoughts of costumes and fashion today because beauty is skin-deep, and that’s where we’re going to focus. Your character’s face, skin tone, hairstyle (and color), body shape, and meticulously applied scar can be just the thing to stand out in a crowd and appeal greatly to […]

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The Stream Team: Checking out the cute craziness of...

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2025/10/10

What draws Massively OP’s MJ to take a look at a game? It can be any number of things that draws her attention. In the case of Cloudheim, first it was the name of the studio: Noodle Cat Games. How can she not be interested? Then the hilarious open beta announcement cinched it. She grabbed […]

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Betawatch: Blue Protocol Star Resonance lands,...

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2025/10/10

Well, it did not come in the form that basically anyone expected when the title was first announced, but Blue Protocol: Star Resonance has officially launched and is now a real thing rather than just a theory. It’s actually happened! You can play it for yourself! Will you like it? Well, it’s free-to-play, so there’s no […]

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