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Blade & Soul NEO adds demon-powered stabbing with its...

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2026/01/16

When is a poke more than just a poke? When it’s a poke empowered by dark demonic powers, of course! That’s just what’s coming to Blade & Soul NEO on Tuesday, January 20th, when the Dark Lancer class arrives to the action MMO alongside its next content patch. Noted by NCsoft as NEO’s first original […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play is still subject...

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2026/01/16

So boosting, or one MMORPG-specific form of it, is back in World of Warcraft news because once again, Blizzard is very happy to sell people boosts for a new WoW Classic expansion. This, in and of itself, is not unusual or novel. MOP’s Justin has a whole column about it, and I agree with basically […]

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MassivelyOP’s complete MMO 2025 awards recap and debrief

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2026/01/16

As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, today we’re going to recap our annual awards and other articles from the end of 2025. We gave out 23 formal awards over the span of December 2025 and early January 2026, in addition to our annual recaps, roundups, listicles, predictions, […]

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Project Gorgon upgrades its server, plans a second...

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2026/01/16

Project Gorgon is now just under two weeks away from its formal launch – and yet it shut down its server last night. Oh, don’t fret: It’s only because the server is getting a major upgrade ahead of what is shaping up to be a healthy launch. “We have reached a very special milestone in […]

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Past Fate studio apologizes for ‘rough’ launch, touts...

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2026/01/16

If there ever was an MMO that’s facing a steep uphill trudge through snow, bad word-of-mouth, and even a level rollback, it’s got to be Past Fate. The medieval title has been struggling heavily since its early access release last week, a fact that the studio freely acknowledges. In a post on Discord, Icy North […]

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Blue Protocol Star Resonance teases its second season...

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2026/01/16

If the trailer for the second season of Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is to be believed, the time is now for you to embrace a new combat technique: running directly into melee range while wielding a bow. There are, of course, other things going on with the season 2 trailer teasing a new boss for players […]

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World of Warcraft offers a video survival guide for...

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2026/01/16

It’s weird that World of Warcraft has a survival guide for the Midnight pre-expansion patch, right? Like, it’s easy to survive. Don’t dismount from your flying mounts at maximum height. Don’t swim underwater and then walk away from your computer for four hours. Don’t name your character “FREE-EPIX” and then flag yourself for PvP. All of this […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG or studio made the...

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2026/01/16

The Daily Grind has a proud tradition as an annual question here on MOP as we dabble in some hyperbole. No, the MMORPG genre is not dead or dying, but that doesn’t mean certain games and studios aren’t trying. I’m giving the nod to Amazon this round, specifically for its handling of New World. We […]

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Massively Overthinking: The MMOs that didn’t win in...

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2026/01/16

With our awards season for 2025 finally done, our team wanted to take a moment to reflect on them – and get out some Opinions. See, we changed how we presented our awards this past year. Instead of dragging everyone through the laborious process of writing an opinion for each award, we chose to present […]

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Jagex talks up the live events and updates headlining...

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2026/01/16

Blessedly, Jagex is doing more than just handing out a sweet in-game cape to mark the 25th anniversary of RuneScape: The studio has gleefully gone out of its way to share that there is going to be a whole lot more to mark the series’ milestone across its three different games. The so-called “RS25” celebration […]

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Metin2 continues to mark its 19th anniversary with...

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2026/01/15

Most readers may associate Metin2 with the now-old drama of Gameforge’s DMCA takedown of a Kickstarter for Magic to Master, but more importantly, it’s also an MMORPG that’s been humming along for 19 years this year, and Gameforge has been using the whole month of January to throw a big bash for its playerbase. Among […]

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Lord of the Rings Online’s early 2026 roadmap...

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2026/01/15

Hobbits and non-Hobbits alike, rejoice, for Lord of the Rings Online’s first 2026 roadmap is here. Standing Stone Games posted details about the first two updates of the year, starting with Update 47: Folly of Kings this quarter. That patch will contain a Kingdoms of Harad raid, UI improvements, and some sort of significant “enhancement” […]

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For Science: CCP Games on inclusion, ‘only girl’...

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2026/01/15

EVE Online’s hard-earned reputation as a vastly male-dominated gaming space probably isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but the era of CCP Games embracing it as a company appears to be coming to an end. That’s the takeaway from a new studio blog out today on the game’s inclusion stats, generated through the 2023 Women in […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Rockstar’s lawsuit evidence,...

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2026/01/15

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And we’re going to be honest, folks, this edition is serving up some corporate-level weak sauce that bodes ill for the industry’s year ahead. Or it bodes well if you like reading about corporate dysfunction. Rockstar submits purported evidence of employee ‘gross misconduct’: […]

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Throne and Liberty kicks off an invasion event and...

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2026/01/15

How dare the Arkeum Legion invade the playgrounds of Throne and Liberty and attack players. Doesn’t it know that players are meant to indiscriminately attack players instead? Obviously this affront cannot stand, so players are being encouraged to drive back the aggressors during an all-new event that joined the game as of this morning. From […]

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Amazon’s New World will officially sunset on January...

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2026/01/15

Ever since Amazon corpos announced the gutting of Amazon Game Studios and maintenance moding of New World – yes, just days after the massively successful launch of its Nighthaven expansion – MMORPG players have been wondering nervously just how long past 2026 the skeleton crew would be able to keep the game online in that […]

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Co-op survivalbox Astrobotanica’s new trailer teases...

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2026/01/15

We’re barreling on toward the early access launch date of Astrobotanica, the Kickstarted, science-driven co-op survival RPG in development at Space Goblin Studio. But before that February 16th date is upon us, the Goblins want to show off everything they’ve done over the last few months, courtesy of a new video. The new trailer zips […]

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Warframe of Mind: The most irritating warframes to...

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2026/01/15

In my first serious year of playing Warframe (which would be last year), I went from Mastery 2 to 25. That’s a lot. I fully intend to be 30 by the end of this year, and part of that is tied into leveling all of the base frames in the game; there were some I […]

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Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the...

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2026/01/15

Indie games studio Spry Fox has had a wild couple of years: After being bought up by Netflix back in 2022, it was bought back by its founders ahead of the 2025 holiday season, in a story that seems to be a lot more common these days as megacorps forget why they even wanted to […]

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Casually Classic: To boost or not to boost in WoW...

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2026/01/15

If WoW Classic was a classic motorcycle, it would be rumbling and revving in anticipation right now. That’s because the Burning Crusade Anniversary server kicks off its prepatch this week in anticipation of the February 5th launch date. This is, after all, only the third time that TBC released: first in 2007, then in 2021, and […]

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