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Electronic Arts has posted its final quarterly...

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2025/10/30

As Electronic Arts rides off into the privatization sunset following its $55B buyout from multiple investment groups including the Saudi Arabian government, the company has posted what will be its last quarterly earnings call to investors covering the second quarter of the current fiscal year. EA confirmed that it would “forgo its usual quarterly Q&A […]

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Nexon apologizes for MapleStory’s MapleCon LA, sets...

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2025/10/30

We’ve got a raft of MapleStory stories this week, all gathered here in one post! First, Nexon has finally addressed the situation at last weekend’s MapleCon LA event, which as we covered earlier week apparently had the community present pretty miffed. Nexon has now apologized. “An unexpected central server outage of a 3rd party POS and […]

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Albion Online’s faction PvP revamp is so smart that...

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2025/10/30

Earlier this week, we finally got a clear idea of what Albion Online’s next move will be: The Realm Divided update that rolls out on November 24th. The big thrust of the release is the revamp of faction warfare in the game, and now, the devs at Sandbox Interactive have dropped a video explaining what […]

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Blizzard sets World of Warcraft’s closed beta for...

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2025/10/30

The World of Warcraft Midnight test phases march onward in November: Blizzard has just formally announced that the Midnight beta now begins on November 11th. It’s a closed beta, mind you, which means you can opt in, but you still may not be invited. Oh, unless you buy the Epic Edition of the expansion, natch, […]

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Riot Games’ Marc Merrill opens the door for former...

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2025/10/30

Genre fans know by now that a whole lot of developers who were working on Amazon Games’ first-party titles were handed their walking papers in a move that simultaneously sent New World into maintenance mode. But where one door closes for those workers, another may have opened, as Riot Games’ Marc Merrill is on record […]

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Stars Reach’s visual upgrades ensure it barely looks...

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2025/10/30

Most MMORPG players won’t remember this, but when Raph Koster first put a name and a face to his upcoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, the main complaint from the old-school MMORPG guard was that the unfinished pre-alpha visuals were too cutesy and cartoony (don’t believe me? Here’s one of our interviews from last year in […]

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Into the Super-Verse: What should City of Titans do now?

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2025/10/30

We have been covering City of Titans since Massively Overpowered launched back in 2015. No, really, you can go check. It’s been there since very, very early. It is currently 2025, and it is not going to be 2025 for a whole heck of a lot longer, either. And I think it’s high time that we […]

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Two of Nintendo’s anti-Palworld patents face new...

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2025/10/30

Palworld fans are likely familiar with the patent infringement lawsuit Nintendo slapped the survival sandbox with at the tail end of last year: Nintendo claims that three specific patents for game mechanics are directly ripping the Pokemon franchise off, while Palworld developer Pocketpair argues that prior art nullifies the claims. While that lawsuit is still […]

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Vitae Aeternum: New World’s demise is a disaster for...

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2025/10/30

Unfortunately, here we are again. I am once again in the position of reporting on the death of a game I enjoyed. You all know the news by now: New World is abruptly entering maintenance mode mere weeks after a massive and mostly well-received update. It’s a bad week to be a New World fan, […]

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PvPvE extraction shooter ARC Raiders makes its full...

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2025/10/30

While it certainly feels as if PvPvE extraction games are a dime a dozen nowadays, one appears to be gaining a head of steam from the very jump at least. Today is the day when Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders has officially made its cross-platform launch, and early indications from gamers and the media are certainly […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you prune your friend list in MMOs?

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2025/10/26

You know the feeling. You’re doing a dungeon run with people, you’re making jokes and having a great time, and at the end of the run you ask if you can add the strangers in the party to your friend list. They respond with an exuberant yes, and you wave goodbye, and then you never […]

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Guild Wars 2 offers a deep-dive into shadow...

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2025/10/26

With all of the other things that Visions of Eternity is bringing to Guild Wars 2, one that is maybe not fully expected – and one that ArenaNet spent a significant amount of digital ink on – is the arrival of improved shadows that will cast themselves across the MMO’s world. Ignore the Ratmancer; shadows […]

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Pax Dei devs update players on their post-launch...

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2025/10/25

Considering the amount of players rumbling around in the sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei, there’s likely going to be more than a few folks who haven’t been around since the early access days and so the known issues list needs an updatin’. And that’s just what Mainframe Industries is doing in a Discord post to keep […]

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Pirating multiplayer survival RPG Crosswind shares a...

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2025/10/25

When last we heard from Crosswind, the survival sandbox wearing a pirate hat while possibly suffering from scurvy and smelling absolutely rancid (we mean the pirates, not the game itself or the devs at Crosswind Crew), it was from the floor of Gamescom as its producer discussed its mechanics and its ensmallened size from the […]

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The Stream Team: Beaten by a nerf bat in V Rising

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2025/10/25

Forget Dracula: Massively OP’s MJ is not even sure she can best any of the remaining bosses in V Rising after the big changes. PvE especially was bashed with a massive nerf bat, making combat much harder than it was before. Can MJ and her friends work past the issues and find a new rhythm […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Why Lord of the Rings Online has...

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2025/10/25

Here at Massively OP, we often talk about that “sticky” factor in relation to MMORPGs. What makes one game more enticing and appealing that it won’t only attract a person but cause them to stick around? What is that secret sauce, that special formula that keeps a player invested in a title instead of growing […]

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Old School RuneScape ties down a November 19 release...

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2025/10/25

It’s been written about, tested, polled, tested again, and polled some more, but now the time has come for Old School RuneScape to officially get its first new skill line in years: Sailing will arrive to the MMORPG on Wednesday, November 19th. “Sailing is a massive update, we call it our ‘project of projects,'” writes […]

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WRUP: Here are the horror films I pitched to A24...

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2025/10/25

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

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The Daily Grind: What’s the best part of your MMO guild?

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2025/10/25

Hopefully you’ve stumbled upon a great MMO guild and held onto it for dear life, because those are precious groups. I thought we’d kick off our discussion this morning gushing about the best parts of our respective MMO guild. Is your guild really invested in its members and excited to cheer on their progress? Does […]

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The Stream Team: Fantastical subconscious adventures...

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2025/10/24

After “rescuing” Not Mio (death is a release, no?), Massively OP’s Larry and MJ get to move on from Mio’s sci-fi subconscious in Split Fiction and relax in the fantasy of Zoe’s. All while trying to stay alive as Ryder works to kill them inside his machine. It will be a piece of cake, right? […]

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