MMO
Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the studio and launch cozy MMO Spirit Crossing later this year
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 […]
Mu Dark Awakening is a new mobile version of the MMO with massive battles and AFK progression
As we noted in a recent MOP Up, this week has introduced a new addition to the wider MU Online set of MMOARPGs. And yes, this one is another mobile edition on top. Say hello to MU: Dark Awakening, brought to us by WEBZEN, Tianma, and Fingerfun. No snickering. “Carrying forward the nostalgia and passion […]
The newest open-source MMO, Cursor Party, is an MMO where you play… a cursor
If you have a lot of trouble figuring out how to create your character in an MMORPG, maybe what you really need is to free yourself from constraints and several leaps of logic later just make yourself into a floating cursor. No, really. Cursor Party is an open-source MMO project by a developer named jidohyun in […]
Fallen Sword 2 bills itself as a ‘spiritual successor’ to the 2006 browser MMO
Sometimes you get a sequel that you didn’t ask for — but you aren’t totally upset when it arrives. Such may be the case for Fallen Sword II, a newly announced multiplayer title that’s billing itself as a “spiritual successor” to studio Haunted Cow Games’ original browser MMORPG that came out in 2006. This title […]
Hytale has officially opened its early access to hungry pixel MMO players today
As of 10 a.m. EST this morning, Hytale is officially back in business and playable for everyone who ponied up the early access fee, following a cancellation and comeback story that was a highlight of 2026. How many people are in there? We don’t know because the game’s early access isn’t […]
MMO Hype Train: Hytale gets what many canned games never do… a second chance
Getting acquired by a big-time company isn’t always the salvation and blessing that a small game studio assumes. Just ask Hypixel, a little indie outfit that had great success with a Zelda-esque Minecraft server to the point that Riot Games snapped Hytale up in 2020 with an eye to inject it with more resources and […]
MMO Week in Review: Season Zero
Elder Scrolls Online became the first major MMORPG of the year to put all its chips on the table with the announcement of its new seasonal model and controversial battlepass business plan – though it landed in the context of the game’s former boss finally making clear just what kind of villain ZeniMax’s corporate owner […]
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2025: Weirdest thing MMO gamers did to win an internet argument (yes, again)
Today we’re finishing up our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP’s weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2025! Coming in at #1 on our list is… Oh come on, you knew it was War Thunder again This award has been a tradition since 2021, when it first became mainstream news that military nerds were […]
Forget about another WoW Classic run, this new, F2P dungeon-crawler MMO is a modern take on ’90s online adventures
Care to kick off your new year with another potentially massive waste of time? I mean that in a good way. The best way, actually. As someone who benched their annual festive WoW Classic play for a renewed stab at Old School Runescape, if my Hardcore Ironman team doesn’t materialize in the next couple of […]
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2025
So 2025 marks the 11th year in a row when we have put together a roundup of all the MMORPG-tinged science topics we covered this year, and I’m noticing two trends worth pointing out. First, the number of MMORPGs that are running polls and surveys to actually ask their players what they think about things […]