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City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p2 Legacy is live with the Kallisti Wharf revamp and two new powersets
Last month, City of Heroes Homecoming emerged from a long content drought with news of a big patch that quickly turned controversial. As of...
The Daily Grind: How do you manage your MMORPG alts?
You might not know this about me, but I'm a bit of a spreadsheet junkie. I have spreadsheets for literally everything, especially for my...
Fortnite marks Father’s Day by selling cosmetics of three iconic animated TV dads
Another set of popular IPs have been tossed into the whirling blender of characters that is Fortnite: Epic Games has decided to mark Father's...
Multiplayer ‘mobile squad RPG’ DC Worlds Collide showcases its various game modes in new trailer
Last month we first got word about DC Worlds Collide, a self-described "mobile squad RPG" where players can assemble their favorite teams of heroes...
MMO Business Roundup: SAG-AFTRA’s victory, Ubisoft’s shame, Embracer’s leadership
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Voice actor strike: The voice actor union SAG-AFTRA, whose strike against the major...
The MOP Up: Ultima Online preps a five-part Rifted Crown event
Ultima Online's Publish 120 is chugging away on the test server -- and with it a five-part event called The Rifted Crown that sounds...
DC Universe Online kicks off another new character leveling event, marks Pride with new cosmetics
It's time to blitz through the levels in DC Universe Online and get rewarded for it, above and beyond having a new high-level alt...
Kickstarted superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off its animation and FX overhaul
Ship of Heroes is still zooming along toward a release this season, and ahead of what we assume will be a hard date announcement...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 520: Get in gamers, we’re going on a road trip!
Justin and Bree discuss Dune Awakening, Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, New World, and City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Palia, plus a mailbag topic on whether a bad MMO is better than none.
Into the Super-Verse: What the heck is going on with balancing in City of Heroes Homecoming?
When we first looked at the beta patch notes for City of Heroes: Homecoming's i28p2 Legacy, the first joke I made to MOP's Bree...
DC Universe Online launches its newest content chapter Fearful Day
The Light & Rain narrative that's running through DC Universe Online has gotten its latest chapter this week with the launch of Fearful Day,...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p2 Legacy enters testing with a major content revamp for Kallisti Wharf
City of Heroes Homecoming fans, your long wait for fresh content is over - or will be soon, anyway. The officially licensed live version...
Champions Online polls players about costume pieces for its 16th anniversary
September is still a few days (months?) away, but Champions Online already has its eye on that month for the occasion of its 16th...
Fallout 76’s Gone Fission update and 21st season have arrived with fishing content and a janky houseboat
I'm contractually obligated to adore the name of the latest Fallout 76 patch because I have had a City of Heroes characters named "Gone...
DC Universe Online launches a week-long boost event as a finale for Day of Reckoning
The first chapter of the Light & Rain story in DC Universe Online is going out with a bang as Daybreak's Dimensional Ink has...
DC Worlds Collide is an upcoming turn-based multiplayer ‘mobile squad RPG’
How do you cram a whole gaggle of heroes and villains from the DC Comics universe into your pocket? Without rolling up stacks of...
The MOP Up: Squirreled Away gives into player demands to create an unlimited treehouse mode
Co-op treetop survival sim Squirreled Away said that it's listened to player demands and is preparing a full-on creative mode for tree houses for...
Massively Overthinking: What will the MMORPG genre look like in 2030?
If you had asked me in 2020 what the MMO genre would look like in 2025, I'm not sure how I would've answered. It...
The Daily Grind: How much money would you pay to keep a beloved MMORPG online?
Back in April, Wild Terra 2 studio Juvty Worlds did something fairly unusual in the MMORPG world, at least outside of rogue servers and...
The MOP Up: Valve shuts down a Classic Offensive mod after eight years of development
A CSGO mod -- Classic Offensive -- got shut down by Valve eight years into its development. The mod devs said, "We are devastated...
