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Star Trek Online’s Jack Emmert talks account-bound...

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2026/02/06

If you happened to have read our interview with the returned Jack Emmert, you likely know that he’s still coming to grips with returning to the helm to guide Cryptic’s MMORPGs such as Star Trek Online, with plenty of aspirations to push the games forward for a long time. That appears to continue to be […]

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The Stream Team: Happy 7th anniversary, Astroneer!

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2026/02/06

It’s an auspicious day! With Astroneer’s anniversary today, Massively OP’s MJ has been able to expire adorably for seven years now. From saving Christmas to singing snails to space stations, it’s been a fun and sometimes silly ride through this survival sandbox. Join us live at 3:00 p.m. as MJ celebrates the occasion with a […]

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MMO Business Roundup: GDC’s dev survey, Steam Machine...

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2026/02/06

Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! While we might be casting a pretty wide net with the “MMO” part of this article series, the headlines in this bundle are pretty far-reaching (hence the MMO-adjacent bit). So let’s stop splitting hairs and get down to it! GDC developer survey results: […]

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A new map, character, and ranked mode comes to 3v3...

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2026/02/06

PvP FPS Highguard isn’t slowing down since its January launch. Just a week after putting out a 5v5 mode and a new base, Studio Wildlight pushed out another content patch with even more stuff including an additional character and map. The 3v3 game introduced the latest playable character to the roster with the February 6th […]

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Star Citizen CTO outlines progress on server meshing...

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2026/02/06

Star Citizen is a project made up of many, many, many, many complicated moving parts, which is why when CIG brings chief technology officer Benoit Beausejour to talk about the technical side of the sandbox in a livestream, followers of the alpha pay attention – especially considering the game’s performance and enormous tech lifts. The […]

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EverQuest and EverQuest II celebrate the love-infused...

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2026/02/06

Love is in the air, in the circuits, and in the code over in Norrath. Erollisi Day is running rampant with smooches, passionate affection, and plenty of time-limited activities to keep February hot ‘n’ heavy. In EverQuest, players can play matchmaker to Grimble Grumblemaker, take a pro or con side to a love letter campaign, […]

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Elder Scrolls Online explains how it’s integrating...

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2026/02/06

The first class getting a major revamp this year as part of Elder Scrolls Online’s combat overhaul is the Dragonknight, as MMO gamers know, and if DKs are your thing, get thee to the PTS henceforth because ZeniMax Online Studios has been tinkering on your baby. The studio writes today that it’s been putting player […]

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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft Midnight is going to...

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2026/02/06

Boy, if you aren’t into MMO housing, then last Thursday’s State of Azeroth video probably was nails-on-chalkboard for you. Heck, I love housing and what Blizzard has done here, and even I think the devs were hammering on that one particular system a little too much. So yeah, the half-hour video was hardly balanced between […]

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Isometric MMORPG Dreadmyst is back on Steam,...

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2026/02/06

At the top of the year, we first reported on Dreadmyst, a free-to-play isometric throwback MMORPG by a solo developer, though its launch quickly courted controversy with players casting side-eye on the dev and pointing out their use of stolen art assets – uproar enough to get the game removed from Steam after an NCsoft […]

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Design Mockument: Which lost MMORPGs deserve a revival?

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2026/02/06

I was originally going to do a column about why MMORPG revivals are a fraught thing, but it’s really pretty obvious with a moment’s thought: Many of these games were not in the required tier of profitability where it can be salvaged no matter what, and anyone bringing them back after a shutdown will deal […]

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Dune Awakening invites players to reach Imperial...

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2026/02/06

With the arrival of the game’s third chapter as well as new DLC, Dune Awakening is confident that players will be flocking to its sandy reaches now. So to celebrate the big update, the game is starting its first ever community challenge. Running until February 16th, the challenge asks players to seek out the new Imperial […]

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Where Winds Meet kicks off a Lunar New Year event...

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2026/02/06

Where Winds Meet is a multiplayer RPG that features a dire Wuxia-styled world but also lets characters learn combat skills from geese, which is to say that it doesn’t keep things too serious all the time. Bear that in mind as you read through what’s coming to the game today on Friday, February 6th, when […]

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Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon opens a third server as...

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2026/02/06

As promised, Project Gorgon has now launched its third server just one week post-launch. It’s called Strekios, named for the god of Self-Improvement. That said, it sounds like the second server – Dreva, the one opened this past weekend – is also struggling, owing to players who are using the game’s demo to check it out. […]

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Guild Wars Reforged actually dropped a balance update...

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2026/02/06

Last night, we got another update for Guild Wars Reforged, ArenaNet’s revamp and re-release of Classic Guild Wars. Actually, technically there are two updates. “The first is a special surprise,” the studio wrote on the wiki (we assume Dr. Stephen Clarke-Willson). “As some of you know, as a studio we’ve avoided skill balance updates because […]

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The Daily Grind: So what *is* the best way to stop...

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2026/02/06

When Project Gorgon announced that it would turn veteran accounts into pigs – a real playable thing that exists in the game, mind you – there wasn’t a whole lot of grumbling, oddly. It was only on the first fresh start server, only temporary, and only for old accounts. The goal? To stop veterans from […]

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The Stream Team: Little Potion Garden goes more MMO

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2026/02/06

A note from Little Potion Garden has let Massively OP’s MJ know that there have been a some major improvements to the browser game since she took her first look two weeks ago. There are new daily town quests with randomized rewards, UI changes, world boss events with proper scheduling and server control, accessibility improvements, and […]

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Massively Overthinking: Takeaways from the Ashes of...

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2026/02/06

This past weekend’s shocking revelation that there was something rotten in the state of Ashes of Creation sent the MMORPG community into a froth, understandably. We were already reeling from the collapse of Amazon Games and New World. Ashes of Creation was one of the major MMOs on the horizon. Losing it over what sounds […]

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EVE Online shares its full suite of Fanfest...

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2026/02/05

Nothing says party island quite like Iceland. At least that’s some of the vibe that EVE Online is once again trying to project as it lays out all of the activities at this year’s Fanfest both before and during the massive convention. Among the things for fans to do during their visit are pub crawls, […]

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Warframe’s Star Days celebrates love in a time of...

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2026/02/05

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs, even when you’re dealing with a world that consists of a whole solar system millennia in the future and full of murderous Void entities. Warframe has people who want to spread the love during 2026’s Star Days outing, starting with Ticker on Fortuna; she’s got […]

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Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases Ewok Festival of...

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2026/02/05

Even rogue servers get roadmaps of a sort, and we’ve gotten the equivalent for Star Wars Galaxies Legends this very week. The player devs are eyeballing two specific events in the near future. First, there’s the 10th anniversary – yes, this version of the long-sunsetted MMOPRPG is about to turn 10 years old. And second, […]

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