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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained layoffs, Pantheon’s...

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2025/02/02

Welcome 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. This month, Camelot Unchained raised eyebrows when its studio reportedly laid off 40% of its workers. The company has maintained silence about what’s going on with […]

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New World continues to address PvP season server...

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2025/02/01

When New World opened its new PvP season servers, it accidentally let established characters hop over to these new servers when they shouldn’t have been allowed to, causing all sorts of problems in the FFA ruleset. We’re now over a week since that SNAFU occurred, and we’re sorry to report that it still seems like […]

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Ashes of Creation takes players on a treasure hunt in...

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2025/02/01

Hunting for treasure isn’t the exclusive domain of marauding pirates, whip-cracking archaeologists, or tomb raiders; it’s now part of Ashes of Creation alpha two and a focus of the January development livestream from Intrepid Studios. The actual treasure hunting mechanic doesn’t really try to reinvent the wheel: Players right-click on a treasure map to activate […]

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The Stream Team: Mining materials for more mobile...

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2025/02/01

If you thought Massively OP’s MJ had forgotten about her mobile base plans in ICARUS, think again! She’s still really interested in creating a travel base so she can explore more of the land. However, there is plenty of prep work needed — not the least of which are the levels to make the needed […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: How well does Lord of the Rings...

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2025/02/01

It was several World of Warcraft expansions ago — Legion, most likely — that the development team at Blizzard really got worked up over this idea of “class fantasy.” While the devs talked about it so much it kind of became a bit of a joke, I’ll admit that it was the first time I […]

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Warframe previews the Techrot Encore, the eighth...

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2025/02/01

If you only take away one thing from this post about Warframe, let it be this: A whole heck of a lot of stuff is going down in the game in both February and March. While a lot of people might have expected the next big update to 1999 to be in February, it turns […]

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WRUP: Here are the descriptions of what happened when...

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2025/02/01

No not really. It's a joke. Every WRUP is a joke! So join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about games and shows we fell out of love with.

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The Daily Grind: Do you miss the wild unknowns of the...

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2025/02/01

When I think back to the computing and gaming era of the late ’90s and early 2000s, I feel a sense of appreciation from having gone through it and a true sense of loss knowing that we’ll never get that unique feeling back. As with many aspects of the early internet age, MMORPGs were a […]

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The Stream Team: Rivers run red in Path of Exile 2

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2025/02/01

First, there was a frost hag and some very tangly weeds. Now the rivers run red. Path of Exile 2 is very grim and… um… dark. Maybe MJ will sing us a happy tune to brighten the mood a bit. One can hope. Watch Larry and MJ live at 8 p.m. as Massively OP’s Stream […]

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Betawatch: Path of Exile 2 is now affecting the...

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2025/02/01

Remember being told that Path of Exile 2 was not going to impact Path of Exile’s development? Well, that’s happening now. We’re sure that players of either game are absolutely shocked by this entirely unforeseen turn of events. And how are players reacting to this news? You already know the answer even if you haven’t […]

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MMO sandbox BitCraft releases a vignette of...

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2025/01/31

Remember last summer when BitCraft took followers on a video tour of the settlements players built during its July alpha test? Well we’re getting the same sort of peek from Clockwork Labs as it shares the creations of testers from its third alpha in November. We once again get to see the creativity that players […]

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Myth of Empires’ Persia DLC will let players ride...

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2025/01/31

Myth of Empires is putting out yet another preview about its upcoming (and undated) Persia DLC, but this time it isn’t about woodcutting mechs, armors, or crafting tables; it’s about new mounts and mount features. Specifically, the DLC will let players hop on to the back of a trusty camel or an even less trusty […]

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War Thunder offers snake decals for Lunar New Year...

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2025/01/31

Lunar New Year may be over, but War Thunder operators can benefit from the holiday for a few more days to come. From now until February 5th, players have the opportunity to earn a “red envelope” decal with a happy looking serpent on it (you know, for the Year of the Snake). To get this […]

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Early access survivalbox Valheim teases its Deep...

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2025/01/31

When one thinks of Vikings in their natural habitat, it’s probably one reminiscent of the Nordic landscape. But head toward the Arctic a bit more, and there you might find the inspiration for Valheim’s next biome, the Deep North. As teased in the latest development newsletter, Deep North is a snowy barren icescape with mountains, […]

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RuneScape outlines tweaks to level 110 Runecrafting...

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2025/01/31

With Woodcutting and Fletching having a new high-level mark in RuneScape, the time is soon coming for another crafting profession to hit a max of level 110: Runecrafting. That brings us to a new dev blog from Jagex that talks about some of what this will bring including a new rune and shiny new items […]

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The Stream Team: A first live peek at the pre-alpha...

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2025/01/31

It’s been the talk of our site, our readers, and the MMORPG community overall: It’s the in-development sandbox from Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds Stars Reach, and today, MOP’s Chris is fortunate enough to share his first-ever time within its most recent pre-alpha build! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST for a quick exploration of […]

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Following painful layoffs, Camelot Unchained is...

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2025/01/31

Earlier this month, we expressed serious concern over the fate of Camelot Unchained when it became clear that studio Unchained Entertainment had laid off 24 of its 55 developers owing to (we theorized) investor problems – and now we’ve got at least a bare acknowledgement from a dev, though maybe not one anyone is going […]

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Black Desert marks the Lunar New Year across all...

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2025/01/31

The Lunar New Year is draping its way across Black Desert, but it’s less a time of major in-game celebration and more like a time of introspection for Pearl Abyss devs – as well as some time off. Even so, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some goodies for PC, console, and mobile players to ring […]

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Villagers & Heroes maps out updates to frontiers,...

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2025/01/31

There are a lot of big changes coming to the MMORPG Villager & Heroes in its next build. So many, in fact, that the game’s latest newsletter is entirely focused on its next big release, which plans updates to the game’s frontiers delves, the rune system, and elder bosses and their related fragments. Update 5.40 […]

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Warframe of Mind: So why didn’t Warframe’s open world...

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2025/01/31

So I’ve talked a lot about ideas in this column over the past few weeks, but now I think it’s time to start diving into an experiment that Warframe went all-in on starting in 2017. And it was a big deal when it happened. The first open world area, the Plains of Eidolon, was introduced […]

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