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The Stream Team: Opening a Planet Crafter bakery

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2025/11/22

With her Planet Crafter base is more organized, Massively OP’s MJ can focused on more important matters. Matters like opening a bakery at the end of the galaxy! Fresh-bake cookies are the best reason to terraform a new planet, right? MJ used her Terra Tokens to buy a cooking station, cocoa, and wheat then built […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen reconfirms December...

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2025/11/22

Next month will be upon us like a big wet bundle of snow before we know it, which means that fans of the early access sandbox MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will soon be able to enjoy the sound of stomping hooves, neighing, and very possibly loud horse farts. That’s because the December major […]

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WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft’s housing system...

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2025/11/22

December 2nd is coming awfully fast — just two weeks now! — and the excitement for World of Warcraft player housing is hitting a fever pitch, especially with many testers exploring the system in beta. It’s great to see the creativity of this community spring up around the system, and I look forward to even […]

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Players continue to revolt over Aion 2’s Korean...

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2025/11/22

Last week we reported on the chaotic Korean launch of Aion 2, which caused South Korean and Taiwanese fans to revolt over its sloppy launch, connection issues, and extreme layers of monetization. The chaos drove lead devs of the project to Twitch to apologize and promise updates, while NCsoft’s stock took a potentially unrelated but […]

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WRUP: Byuog edition

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2025/11/22

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

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The Daily Grind: What MMO inventory features are a...

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2025/11/22

Not every MMORPG inventory system is built the same, with some being an outright headache to use and some designed smartly to be something approaching enjoyable. And then there’s Bethesda’s scrolly scrolly format that assumes you’re using a console and controller because PCs don’t exist. Or something. OK, it’s not time to grouse about inventories […]

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The Stream Team: Bounding back into Jumping Jazz Cats

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2025/11/22

Massively OP’s MJ played the demo before, but now she’s leaping into the unrestricted version of Jumping Jazz Cats. What crazy antics can she discover in the full game? Just how fluffy can she make her kitty? These are all very important questions that will be answered when you tune in live at 8:00 p.m. […]

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Betawatch: Hytale gets a second lease on life, Aion 2...

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2025/11/22

Recently we’ve seen a lot of games go from being things that people might look forward to enthusiastically to just nonexistent. So it’s nice to hear that Hytale followed that arc and then immediately subverted it, as it is now apparently back with the original founders getting control of the project from Riot, so it’s […]

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Space FPS Wildgate drops its first major content...

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2025/11/21

Space is large, strange, and untamed — and that’s just the way Wildgate likes it because it gives this extraction shooter a broad canvas in which to play. In fact, Moonshot Games just expanded this universe with Wildgate’s first major content patch, called Emergence. The Emergence update flings out a new prospector named Charlie, the […]

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Survivalbox Lightyear Frontier adds road building,...

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2025/11/21

The big stompy mech suit that’s central to your survival sandbox life in the multiplayer title Lightyear Frontier is already pretty handy and multi-duty, but now it’s getting a bunch of additional functionality thanks to the Country Roads update, which effectively lets players haul even more than before thanks to trailers and custom roads. The […]

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Escape from Tarkov continues attacking bugs and...

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2025/11/21

Last weekend we reported on the sorry state of the 1.0 release for PvPvE extraction FPS Escape from Tarkov, which has struggled under the weight of server problems, matchmaking issues, and heaps of bugs, among other things. As one might expect, this has put Battlestate Games on the back foot as the studio continues to […]

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PlanetSide 2 continues marking its 13th anniversary...

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2025/11/21

While a recent patch to PlanetSide 2 already started the celebrations, ToadBreak Rogue PlanetMan is continuing to party hard for its lucky number 13 anniversary, and it’s doing it by handing out a bunch of codes for doing stuff outside of the game. You only turn 13 once, after all, so why not? Four different […]

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Skull and Bones looks toward balancing the rewards...

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2025/11/21

Who doesn’t like fighting people because you belong to a different faction? Surely not the pirates in Skull and Bones, who have gotten to enjoy factional warfare being added into the game. But while the Ubisoft developers seem pretty happy with the game content, the latest development diary makes it clear that they’re aware some problems […]

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The Stream Team: Co-op sessions in the community...

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2025/11/21

While the multiplayer sandbox of Skate might be having a somewhat underwhelming in-game event right now, MOP’s Chris is still having some fun by visiting the community skate parks that pop up every day. So that’s precisely what he’s going to be sharing, and he won’t be alone, as he’ll be with his best friend […]

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Path of Exile 2 announces The Last of the Druids...

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2025/11/21

For those who love the class fantasy of being capable of wielding the wild in combat against evil, you’ve been kind of starved for that choice in Path of Exile 2 thus far. However, that cavernous Druid-shaped hole in your heart is about to be filled, as Grinding Gear Games has officially announced The Last […]

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Astroneer’s Megatech DLC is live now as System Era...

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2025/11/21

Do you want to build big in Astroneer? Well don’t let your dreams stay dream, little space guy, get out there and put together a megastructure. What is a megastructure? It’s a big construction. Like, really big. It’s also the central feature of the game’s new Megatech DLC, asking people to put together their enormous flipping […]

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WoW Classic tests Burning Crusade changes and new...

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2025/11/21

The first public tests for what WoW Classic is calling the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary (BCCA for short, why not) is now up on the PTR, and you better believe that this Outland boy is coming in hot with all sorts of changes. The community is abuzz about the different approach that Blizzard is taking […]

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Design Mockument: What would a Final Fantasy XI...

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2025/11/21

So this week’s moment of “unexpected but very, very good” news is the announcement that Guild Wars is getting a new “Reforged” update that does things like bump up some graphical quality and add some general experience improvements, for players on multiple devices. This is a really cool and good thing, and while I could speculate […]

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Following a goofy delay, Ubisoft’s financials arrive...

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2025/11/21

If you happened to be holding any stock in Ubisoft, this past week might have frayed some of your nerves, as the gaming company announced that its fiscal report for the first half of the year was being delayed and that share trading would be temporarily halted. As one might expect, this ended up causing […]

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MMO Hype Train: Is Ashes of Creation ready for the...

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2025/11/21

One of our internal running gags at Massively OP is that there’s this hypothetical bingo prediction chart that’s full of incredibly specific events that absolutely nobody could see coming — until those events occur, and then we claim that they were on the bingo sheet all along. So I like to imagine that square G-4 […]

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