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City of Heroes Homecoming stealth-patched in a Talk...

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2025/09/19

It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day, which means even MMORPGs that aren’t really very pirate-y join in the fun. This year, apparently that includes the officially licensed City of Heroes Homecoming servers, though if you’re not paying attention, you’ll definitely miss it because the devs kinda sneaked it in. We first learned about it from […]

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Interview: Warborne Above Ashes, the guild-centric...

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2025/09/19

Calling all large scale, guild-focused PvPers: We have a new MMO launch on the horizon with Warborne Above Ashes, which launched late last night. Back in May, I was able to get my hands on Warborne during its open beta event, and I walked away really impressed. It brings together a lot of familiar gameplay […]

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Soloria is a new ‘fake massively multiplayer offline...

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2025/09/19

“Ever feel like online games are a little too online these days?” That’s the pitch behind Soloria, a new game in the Erenshor vein – that is, an game that looks and feels like an MMORPG but actually isn’t online at all. The brains behind the game is former Dungeons and Dragons Online dev Tonquin, […]

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We finally know how much Ship of Heroes will cost:...

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2025/09/19

It’s been a helluva long wait for Ship of Heroes: Expected to launch on August 18th, it has been delayed several times over Steam shenanigans, and now, we’re finally locking in on a September 22nd release, more than a month later. But there’s been one curious detail missing from the discussion about the game in […]

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Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an...

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2025/09/19

It’s been a bit since we heard any new peeps over Light of Motiram, an in-development survival sandbox from Tencent that earned some snark – and then a straight-up lawsuit from Sony – over its extremely close resemblance to Sony’s Horizon games. When last we reported this past August, Tencent had swapped out images from […]

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WoW Classic 20th Anniversary servers go to Naxx on...

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2025/09/19

World of Warcraft’s retail edition isn’t the only version of the game seeing a highly nostalgic content drop in early October. Blizzard announced on Thursday that it plans to move the WoW Classic 20th Anniversary realms into the Naxxramas phase come October 2nd. This sixth and final phase of the year-long rollout of vanilla content […]

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The Daily Grind: Which games are the fast fashion of...

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2025/09/19

Everyone here has heard of fast fashion, right? It’s a business model whereby vendors are cranking out endless streams of low-quality clothes that are super on trend, basically delivering exactly what the market wants when it wants it, cheaply. And of course, most of it ends up in landfills to be replaced with the next […]

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The Stream Team: Jeets and The Path of Inspiration in...

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2025/09/18

Good ol’ Jeets. It appears Massively OP’s MJ will get the chance to meet up again with this halfling rogue she first encountered back at the beginning of Dungeons & Dragons Online on Korthos Island. Currently, he is investigating a place of worship for a distant empire’s religion, but he appears to have run into […]

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Massively Overthinking: What bits of MMO history do...

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2025/09/18

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a thread on Reddit about an MMORPG I know inside and out, and I should never have clicked on this thread, but I did, and I was instantly struck with how confused the replies were about what actually happened, never mind why it happened. It was actually wild […]

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Defunct WWII MMOFPS Heroes & Generals could be coming...

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2025/09/18

It’s been a good long while since we talked about Heroes & Generals here at Massively OP, mostly because the 2016 World War II MMO shut down back in 2023 owing to “outdated” technology on the game’s backend. However, there may be a flicker of hope for a revival, as a young entrepreneur named Zackery […]

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Final Fantasy XI brings back its cow-wrangling...

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2025/09/18

In between all of the other adventures players can get up to in Vana’diel, how would you like to wrangle some livestock? The Blazing Buffaloes event that returns on September 24th invites you to do just that, with Final Fantasy XI players herding cows and calves back under the direction of local moogles. Fortunately for adventurers, […]

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Architect Land of Exiles is a mobile and PC MMORPG...

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2025/09/18

Who here is ready for another Korean-made MMORPG built in Unreal Engine 5 and aimed at PC and mobile players? Whether you’ve raised your hand or not, that’s effectively what’s coming from developer Drimage/Dream Age and publisher Aqua Tree in the form of Architect: Land of Exiles, which has recently announced its release in its […]

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Star Citizen showcases alpha 4.3.1’s space...

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2025/09/18

A universe as dangerous as the one imagined in Star Citizen isn’t entirely without its helpful medical spaceships, and soon players will get the opportunity to be ambulance pilots when the new RSI Apollo goes live in the upcoming (but undated) alpha 4.3.1 build of the sandbox. This upcoming ship, which comes in the Triage […]

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World War II Online patches in its ‘the single...

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2025/09/18

MMO studios often talk a big game when it comes to the importance of their updates, but in the case of this week’s patch for World War II Online (fka Battleground Europe), the hyperbole may be justified. The studio announced that Patch 1.38 “represents the single greatest code re-write” the massive war sim has received […]

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Ghost discusses design, balance goals, and mechanics...

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2025/09/18

Class is in session for the latest roundtable podcast video for Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost MMO. Or rather, class discussion and new class previews is in session, but that doesn’t quite roll off of the tongue as neatly, even if it is a more appropriate synopsis of what this latest hour of talking offers […]

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ZeniMax Online Studios’ Rich Lambert discusses...

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2025/09/18

Even with the damage that layoffs at ZeniMax Online Studios has brought, studio game director Rich Lambert is still eager not just to push forward but to create more games according to a recent interview he held with GamesIndustry. And those aspirations definitely sound sky-high to us. “I want us to be the most successful […]

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Arc Games’ MODA Fellowship has kicked open the doors...

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2025/09/18

Arc Games’ “MODA” Fellowship is officially entering beta today ahead of its Steam early access, now delayed until October 16th. In other words, now is the time to check it out before you’re playing for keeps. Arc is publishing the “MODA” – that is, a “multiplayer online dungeon adventure” – for studio Chief Rebel, who […]

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Lord of the Rings Online brings back its pair of...

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2025/09/18

With International Talk Like a Pirate Day arriving on Friday, savvy geeks everywhere are embracing the spirit of the sea, wanton plunder, and grizzled nautical language. It’s always around this time of year that Lord of the Rings Online adds its own unique Middle-earth flavor to this holiday. That means, yes, its pair of limited-time […]

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Hyperspace Beacon: It’s time for SWTOR to consider...

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2025/09/18

At least two or three times a year, my heart turns back to Star Wars: The Old Republic. I may only revisit for a few days or a few weeks, but no matter what the length, it’s always a welcome visit back to an MMORPG that once was a consuming passion of mine and took […]

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Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity expansion will...

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2025/09/18

Guild Wars 2 has ensured its last two expansions had something mount-related, specifically a revamp of an older mount that makes it accessible in new ways and much better than the OG. Well, we can now make that last three expansions because Visions of Eternity will do the same thing with skimmer mounts from Path […]

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