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World of Warcraft steels itself for next week’s Siren...

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2024/12/13

World of Warcraft has one final content offering for 2024 before it gears up for the even greater things coming with next year’s Undermine. Patch notes are up for December 17th’s Siren Isle update, and you’ll want to read up on all of the activities and rewards you can get out of this smaller zone […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Most Underrated MMORPG

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2024/12/13

Welcome one and all to Massively Overpowered’s formal end-of-the-year awards for 2024, our multi-week celebration of the highs and lows of our favorite genre over the last dozen months. Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and assign awards to the winners. For the last 10 years now, we’ve been splitting our awards into […]

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The Secret World TTRPG group is working on a North...

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2024/12/13

Way back in 2021, Funcom officially gave its blessing to a player-run studio that wanted to build a Secret World tabletop RPG. In 2022, the group – Star Anvil Studios – raised over $150,000 on Kickstarter to make that TTRPG a reality, and though it flew a bit under the radar, it launched and shipped […]

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Pax Dei invites you to go on a shopping spree as its...

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2024/12/13

As promised, Pax Dei’s Verse 2: Market Square is live this morning for all owners of the early access sandbox MMORPG, and it’s all about gold. No, really: The patch finally introduces a gold currency to the game and all its concomitant economic tweaks, including market stalls that essentially allow players to set up vendors to […]

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Star Citizen rounds up the features for alpha 4.0,...

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2024/12/13

There are only a few more weeks left in December, let alone 2024, but Star Citizen is still claiming in its final video digest for the year that alpha 4.0 is on track for launch sometime this month while also summarizing the variety of features the new alpha version will introduce. “Teams and studios around […]

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Guild Wars 2 shows off all of the things players have...

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2024/12/13

Some people with limited imaginations do not personally wish to use housing in MMORPGs and thus do not see the value of it. “So what if Guild Wars 2 has housing?” they ask. “I don’t want to use it.” But the important part is that there are players who do, and those players have made […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best...

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2024/12/13

There was a time not all that long ago when this question would’ve been inane since we had so few top-notch MMORPGs on console or mobile, but that isn’t the case in 2024. On the mobile side, we have plenty of games, from Albion Online to Tarisland. And on console, we have stalwarts like Final […]

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All the big MMO and multiplayer news from The Game...

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2024/12/13

If you watched the 10th annual Game Awards tonight – perhaps alongside Chris and MJ – then you probably don’t need this post. But if you had other things to do than watch the show as I did (my kid’s concert topped the Three Hours of Commercials Show, sorry), then you might be wanting a […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming The Game Awards live

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2024/12/13

In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch the gameplay right along with you — except this time it isn’t gameplay they’re watching! It’s The Game Awards live. When MJ first envisioned Backseat Streaming, the idea was that she […]

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Marvel Rivals director speculates on Concord’s...

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2024/12/13

Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play hero-based FPS that has attracted absolute scads of players following its launch and earning favorable comparisons to Overwatch 2. This is in stark contrast to Concord, a buy-to-play hero-based FPS that attracted no players following its launch despite earning favorable comparisons to Overwatch 2. So why did one competitor do […]

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Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO...

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2024/12/12

You know, this traditional end-of-the-year roundtable shouldn’t be a thing. We’ve been doing this such a long time and getting so much coverage on the very dumb things that MMO and MMO-adjacent execs say that you’d think they’d have learned to stop saying such things, or maybe even to stop talking out loud where journalists […]

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Temtem Swarm gets a patch with backup files and bug...

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2024/12/12

It would perhaps be fair to say that Temtem Swam – the multiplayer shooter that came out following the maintenance mode of the original Temtem – has something of an image problem. (An image problem compounded by the fact that the original game in maintenance mode is currently played by more people than this spinoff.) […]

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Brighter Shores AMA confirms updates for combat,...

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2024/12/12

It looks as if the devs of Fen Research have plenty of updates planned for Brighter Shores, at least according to an AMA the studio held with its players, and while these plans regrettably don’t include any timelines, there are a number of things that players could look forward to as the MMORPG moves through […]

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Old School RuneScape provides an updated deep-dive...

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2024/12/12

It’s been quite a while since Old School RuneScape talked about the development of its new Sailing skill, but that’s not because Jagex has been sitting idle; it was just collecting all of its progress in order to unload it all over two immense dev blogs and nearly two hours’ worth of video content. The […]

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Nightingale readies NPC automation, building mode...

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2024/12/12

Mark your calendars, Nightingale fans: The next major content update is coming on Tuesday, December 17th, and it’s bringing with it a few new feature updates and activities, whether you like the winter holidays, managing your NPC follower, or building pretty estates. The latest developer video calls attention to these additions, starting first with some […]

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Massively on the Go: Planning your Pokemon GO...

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2024/12/12

As previewed thus far, Pokemon Go’s upcoming Community Day round-up event from December 21st-22nd is bit of a letdown this year. Yes, Dynamax Beldums can finally become beasts, but the past year’s choices were mostly PvP picks, and even there it’s a mixed bag after recent nerfs. That may make things a bit easier if […]

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Elder Scrolls Online could be offline as long as 12...

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2024/12/12

Hope you didn’t want to play Elder Scrolls Online today: The core servers are having serious issues right now and won’t be back anytime soon. ZeniMax Online Studios says that the game’s NA and EU megaservers, as well as the account website, are offline thanks to a “datacenter power failure.” Initially the team said it […]

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Not So Massively: Deep-diving ZeroSpace’s factions...

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2024/12/12

We’ve reached the third and final piece of Not So Massivey’s extensive impressions from the recent open beta of multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace. In my first piece, I tackled PvP and the issues around the complexity of the game’s core systems, and in the second, I covered the MMO-inspired Galactic War mode and other PvE activities. […]

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Lord of the Rings Online welcomes back the Yule...

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2024/12/12

The snowballs are flying and the theater critics are sharpening their quills as the Yule Festival returns for another season in Lord of the Rings Online. The annual event kicks off on December 12th and runs through January 6th with some new rewards, including a Snowy Evening outfit, housing walls, and steed. Also, a super-fat […]

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Vague Patch Notes: EVE Frontier’s blockchain...

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2024/12/12

It is a mark of pride for our readers that basically none of you are having CCP Games trying to play around with the idea that EVE Frontier shouldn’t be called a blockchain game. Seriously, no one is buying this. We’ve all had a great deal of fun making jokes at the company’s expense and […]

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