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MMO Week in Review: The fate of EVE Online, the...

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2025/06/23

The MMO industry isn’t slowing down as the summer progresses. This week was headlined by the news that Pearl Abyss is trying to sell CCP Games, EVE Online, and its baggage train of assorted in-development games that are sucking down all of EVE Online’s revenue. We also saw Chrono Odyssey’s weekend beta travails, the launch […]

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Final Fantasy XIV’s latest merch collab offers up a...

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2025/06/22

If you adore Final Fantasy XIV’s Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur, love jewelry, and happen to have $400 sitting around doing nothing important, then we’ve got news for you: You can spend that money on a pre-order for a new piece of merch. That’s right, now fans can dress their ear up – just one of […]

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The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D has character slots in...

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2025/06/22

It may be too strange to believe, but AdventureQuest 3D doesn’t have multiple character slots — yet. That’s about to change, as the studio announced that it’s working on the ability to create and switch between multiple characters. Break out your altitis! And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for […]

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The Stream Team: A first-ever run through the spooky...

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2025/06/22

While MOP’s MJ has played R.E.P.O. a couple of times, MOP’s Chris and his Sunday Crew haven’t. That changes today for them, however, and they’ve enlisted the resident expert that is MJ to help! It’s going to be a full party of sneaks, spooks, and madness you don’t want to miss today at 2:00 p.m. […]

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Massively on the Go: Making the most of Pokemon Go...

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2025/06/22

It’s almost time, Pokemon Go trainers: Go Fest 2025 arrives June 28th to 29th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time each day, and as usual, Massively on the Go is here to help… but not just with Go Fest. This year, there’s a pre-Fest event with a unique tie-in to the big show: […]

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Project Ghost debuts its Dreamblade class in brief...

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2025/06/22

Dreamblade / You saw me standin’ alone / You cut a hole in my heart / Hope I was worth the XP. All right, maybe it’s not how Julie London would have sung it, but the Dreamblade class that Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost has just unveiled will absolutely cut someone down. And use a […]

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One Shots: Even views can be jaded

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2025/06/22

If you look up to the highest point on the landscape and squint, you might be able to make out a lone figure standing there with a Polaroid camera, snapping some pics of peons like you below. This, of course, is Vincent, the cat of the world who keeps climbing things and then demanding that […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your most hated cosmetic item...

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2025/06/22

The great thing about the plethora of fashion options in Final Fantasy XIV is that no matter how you want your character to look on any given job, the odds are good that you can find something that you feel looks good. But with that being said, some of y’all really need to have the 2B […]

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The modder behind Final Fantasy XIV’s problematic...

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2025/06/22

Last January we reported on the existence of an extremely troubling mod developed for Final Fantasy XIV and known as PlayerScope, which effectively let gamers mine personal information about the accounts behind individual characters, such as their alt characters and Discord information. (MOP’s Eliot succinctly classed it as “the stalker engine.”) At the time, FFXIV […]

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Iron Swarm is a third-person persistent war MMO where...

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2025/06/21

Take a game like PlanetSide 2, turn player characters into ants, and shrink them down to insect sizes to fight it out among each other. That’s the extremely boiled-down summary for the in-development shooter Iron Swarm, an indie effort from a studio known as Faction 504 that seeks to put together a “persistent online tactical […]

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Stars Reach shows off recent visual updates and...

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2025/06/21

Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster has been busy taking snapshots from within Stars Reach, apparently. That’s the gist of his latest personal blog post, which is the digital equivalent of looking at someone’s vacation slide show, only the slides are screenshots and the vacation destination is his own game. The visuals shown off put the sandbox […]

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The Stream Team: I like big batteries in Astroneer’s...

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2025/06/21

Were you surprised by Astroneer’s ninja update? This week the devs sneaked an update out, and it’s stacked. Really. The Elevated Update introduces big batteries and stacked platforms. Massively OP’s MJ likes big batteries and she cannot lie! She can’t wait to pop in and check all the new things out. However, just don’t mention […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: What should Lord of the Rings...

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2025/06/21

It does seem as though Standing Stone Games has been talking about a “kinship refresh” for Lord of the Rings Online for years now, doesn’t it? It’s right up there with the 4K UI overhaul, in terms of “most talked about and most delayed” projects. But now it looks as though we could be seeing […]

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Sandbox MMORPG BitCraft Online has officially...

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2025/06/21

It’s been a bit of a bumpy last leg to get to this point, but after a few delays, the crafting and exploration sandbox MMORPG world of BitCraft Online has now officially made it to early access. Or beta, depending on whom you talk to. As mentioned before, the game’s early access will cost 30 […]

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WRUP: Regional occupations for the Final Music...

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2025/06/21

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

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The Daily Grind: Is there a genuine hunger out there...

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2025/06/21

It was encouraging to read Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Greg Street write up a manifesto (of sorts) about why he and his team are driven to create an MMORPG even in the face of difficulty and risk. But what was most interesting to me is that he said out loud something that we’ve been saying here […]

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The Stream Team: Trekking to the tradepost in Dune...

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2025/06/20

After experiencing their first spice dream in Dune: Awakening, Massively OP’s MJ and Larry have been directed to head to the Griffin’s Reach Tradepost where they can pick up and fulfill contracts. Their first assignment will be to collect copper. What kind of reward will they get for completing this contract (other than quest completion, […]

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Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey hits beta and Bitcraft hits...

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2025/06/20

The beta for Chrono Odyssey has begun and brought with it… bugs. Now, this would be completely fine if the game in question was Entomologist Combat Odyssey, but in this case those bugs are not enemies you need to fight but problems that aren’t supposed to be there. Still, they’re promising more capacity, so that’s something! Meanwhile, Bitcraft […]

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Age of Water’s latest patch adds wind turbines and...

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2025/06/20

The latest update for Age of Water is all about the balance of power. Specifically, it’s about the balance of power consumption; you shouldn’t be able to allocate more than enough power to run everything on a boat at full tilt, but should instead have to manage weaponry, maneuverability, and survival systems. This means making things […]

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Old School RuneScape player completes a self-imposed...

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2025/06/20

Sometimes gamers make their own fun, and fun can be extremely subjective, so keep those two things in mind as you read about the challenge one Old School RuneScape player set for himself: Make an all-new character, limit it to one specific small portion of land (known in game parlance as a chunk), and earn […]

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