Bree Royce

2 weeks ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

At the Xbox Showcase this weekend, ZeniMax Online Studios dropped an apparently controversial but actually fairly fluffy trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online that has players yapping. The video is set to the Byrds’ 1960s cover of Turn! Turn! Turn!, which is the subject of a lot of the consternation, as players complain it has a Guardians of the Galaxy montage feel and other people are just being weirdly ageist (and homophobic for some reason?) about it.

2 weeks ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

Way back in 2022, I posted a Daily Grind about MMOs that live rent-free in our heads – the negative kind, the kind “eating all the chips in your cupboard and drinking all your booze and sleeping on your couch” without “reimbursing you for all the resentment you’re carrying around.” It’s “[t]ime to kick it out,” I said, and y’all presented me with a long list of MMOs that piss you off that you needed to let go of. You’re very good at this!We’re not doing that today.

2 weeks ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

Blink and you just missed what was probably the biggest week for MMORPGs of the year: Dune Awakening hit headstart, Guild Wars 2 released Absolution, Elder Scrolls Online kicked off Seasons of the Worm Cult, New World opened its new hardcore season server, No Man’s Sky planted a Beacon, Chrono Odyssey picked dates for its big global test, B&S NEO made it to Steam, and hey, some little device called the Switch 2 launched, and we all gathered ’round a vat of popcorn to watch the Summer Game...

2 weeks ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. Ashes of Creation is shaping up to be the classical MMORPG to beat: This week, Intrepid Studios went in-depth on the Summoner pet class, which when it arrives to the test later this summer will evoke classic MMO pet classes with direct control and stances.

3 weeks ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

The MOP team was happily bopping along to the Atomic Heart 2 trailer at Summer Game Fest and debating the proper use of Queen music when Mundfish via Geoff Keighley casually announced an MMO in the same universe.