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The Daily Grind: How many MMOs did you actively play...

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2026/01/09

You know, for all the MMORPGs we cover here on MassivelyOP, the ones that speak to me personally enough to actually capture my precious free time are few and far between. In 2025, while I at least dipped a toe into a long list of games, the ones I submerged in can be counted on […]

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The Stream Team: Fighting for the Thread of the Weave...

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2026/01/09

After rescuing Ana in Dungeons & Dragons Online, everyone now knows that she’s the very Thread of the Weave that the drow have been looking for at the command of Lolth. So the drow are gathering for an all-out attack on the village of Eveningstar to recapture her. Massively OP’s MJ will assist the Purple […]

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Massively Overthinking: What will be your three...

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2026/01/09

So here we are, at the top of a new year, 12 whole months of screwing around in video games laid out before us. In tonight’s Massively Overthinking, we have but one question: What are you gonna do with those 12 months?! I’m asking our writers and readers to rattle off what they think will […]

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VR MMORPG Eldramoor shares work on maps, systems, and...

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2026/01/08

Last spring, we started reporting on Eldramoor, an upcoming VR MMORPG from developer Resolute Games that brought to mind OrbusVR – a comparison that apparently wasn’t by accident, according to studio CEO Lynn Souza. The last major headline out of the game was a Kickstarter drive that immediately met its $20K to a funding total […]

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Starship Simulator spent 2025 working on performance,...

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2026/01/08

Back in 2024 we first started reporting on Starship Simulator, an in-development multiplayer spaceship sim from indie Fleetyard Studios that pretty much offers precisely what a game of its name suggests. The title had a pretty successful Kickstarter round, raising nearly $500K, while development updates have been offered since, along with the release of a […]

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MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2025: Weirdest...

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2026/01/08

Today we’re continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP’s weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2025! Coming in at #2 on our list is… Roblox’s Grow A Garden When I first heard about the viral hit Roblox MMO called Grow A Garden, I was full of snark. I mean, gardening and farming games […]

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Solarpunk MMO Loftia aims to go into early access by...

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2026/01/08

While the indie devs at Loftia studio Qloud Games initially thought that it only would take three months to build the game from scratch, the truth is that it’s taken over three years (and 28 additional developers) to bring this Kickstarted solarpunk MMO to bear. Tackling the question of Loftia’s release schedule, the team said that […]

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Lost Ark welcomes players back to Illios Island and...

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2026/01/08

Fresh on the heels of its 2026 roadmap, Lost Ark is preparing to unleash its first patch of the year on January 14th. In the latest dev video, the team talked up the “extreme” Thaemine raid that’s been adjusted from the Korean version to match the current playerbase. The team also encouraged players to collect […]

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Black Desert Console releases the Seraph class, goes...

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2026/01/08

What would it take for you to check out Black Desert on the PlayStation 5 system? Maybe a lady knight who swishes a big ol’ sword around? Or perhaps you’d prefer to play for free? Well for a limited time, you’re getting both of those things, as the sandbox MMORPG is indeed completely free-to-play on […]

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ARC Raiders boss insists genAI tools are ‘about...

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2026/01/08

The fact that ARC Raiders’ use of generative AI development tools for its creation, particularly for its voice work, is a sticky wicket for many shouldn’t come as a surprise in the age of rising slop tides. Still, Embark Studios CEO Patrick Soderlund is not backing down and continues to defend the decision in an […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The desire for novelty that MMOs...

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2026/01/08

Every time people discuss new things they would love to see in long-running MMORPGs, I see at least a few people speculating about things that aren’t just not happening but would fundamentally break the game. And it always makes a little twitch start up right behind my eye. It’s not that I don’t understand the […]

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Ubisoft shutters one of its Canadian studios just...

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2026/01/08

If you were among those hoping for the tidal shift of the games industry to move in favor of workers, this news is not exactly something that will fill you with confidence in that hope. Ubisoft Halifax, the studio that developed titles like Assassin’s Creed Rebellion and Rainbow Six Mobile, officially formed a union in […]

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WoW Factor: Nervous and excited for World of...

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2026/01/08

By now, World of Warcraft fans are used to the multi-stage format that Blizzard employs to roll out its expansions. It’s never a one-and-done affair, is it? There’s the prepatch, the launch, and post-launch content and season unlocks. This time around, however, the studio added an extra stage in early December with the debut of […]

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Japanese servers for Blade & Soul and Blade & Soul...

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2026/01/08

We have some unfortunate news to share for any Japanese fans of NCsoft’s MMORPG Blade & Soul: The studio has officially confirmed that both Blade & Soul and its Blade & Soul NEO server are sunsetting in Japan this March. “[W]e have come to the conclusion that it has become difficult to provide a stable […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Most Anticipated MMO

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2026/01/08

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Most Anticipated MMO, which was awarded to Star’s Reach last year. This award can be frustrating since many of the games and expansions we’re picking from here haven’t changed much as we’re still waiting on them. We’ll see how it goes in […]

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Sea of Remnants opens sign-ups for an ‘extremely...

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2026/01/08

In the middle of last year we first started reporting on Sea of Remnants, an upcoming Age of Sail-styled RPG promising “vibrant graffiti energy” from developer Joker Studio and publisher NetEase that casts players as a wooden puppet-like wanderer who awakes with no memories in the piratical island of Orbopia. Indeed, in our own early […]

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Microsoft denies rumors that it’s about to lay off...

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2026/01/08

Yesterday, an article from investor website TipRanks circulated throughout the games industry: The rumor was that Microsoft is planning to cut somewhere between 11,000 and 22,000 jobs in January, roughly 10% of its current workforce, to allay the increased cost of data center expansion as part of the company’s hard push toward AI development. If […]

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Past Fate’s early access launch begins with bugs that...

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2026/01/08

Yesterday was the starting gun’s firing for Past Fate’s early access, and it looks as if the sandbox MMORPG’s first steps were pretty stumbling indeed, as the game has been beset by a wide assortment of bugs, some of which are literally causing new arrivals to not progress whatsoever. Both the game’s bug reporting Discord […]

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Once Human teases its 2026 plans as the ‘Year of the...

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2026/01/08

How do you feel about a new scenario in Once Human featuring a gigantic battle with a semi-submerged monstrous entity? The newest preview video from the game’s developer is promising that 2026 will be the “Year of the Monsters,” and not just because the developer quickly gets replaced by a light-headed monster to do the narrating. That […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s a low-tech solution in an...

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2026/01/08

The fact that Final Fantasy XI is a now-ancient MMORPG made to run on the PlayStation 2 and never designed as a PC-first experience means that the game contains a number of compromises to keep the game functional. One of those compromises, for example, is the low-resolution maps that you fly over while riding on the […]

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