• The MOP Up: Profane puts out a new rolling roadmap
  published on August 23rd, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Profane’s devs are reshaping how they share their development plans, saying, “We decided to revamp how we show you what’s going on behind the scenes, so we created a new style of roadmap to share the biggest highlights of what’s coming up! The idea behind this roadmap isn’t to list absolutely everything the team is […]
  
• EVE Frontier adds a new ship, new space hazard, and new items in its latest patch
  published on August 20th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  The devs behind the blockchain survival MMO EVE Frontier already talked about it, but now you don’t have to watch over a half-hour of Fenris Creations’ devs sitting around a table showing slides and can read the latest patch notes directly. Or if you’ve bought in to the game’s founders packs, test these changes yourself, which include […]
  
• Perfect Ten: The 10 MMORPG expansions from 2004
  published on August 19th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  It was the year of World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, EverQuest II, and Neocron 2. Wait, I probably shouldn’t have ended with that last one. Anyway, 2004 was a landmark year for the MMORPG industry that forever changed the landscape. Yet it was also a year of MMO expansions, as the first couple waves […]
  
• EVE Online shares overall design principles for giving its HUD ‘accessible complexity’
  published on August 17th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  If you’re on the outside looking in at EVE Online, you might be thrown off by the sandbox’s HUD. Sure, it’s appropriately sci-fi tech-y, but maybe all of those half-circles and pips at the center don’t immediately convey what’s going on. This will evidently be a main focus for Fenris Creations going forward, as the studio […]
  
• EVE Frontier preps a new ship and new features, EVE Vanguard talks about concept art
  published on August 17th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  It’s time for news out of the games that are not quite EVE Online but are at least adjacent or connected to it, which is a long-winded way of saying we’re reporting on the blockchain survival MMO EVE Frontier and the still-unreleased extraction FPS module EVE Vanguard. But then you knew that by the headline. We’ll begin with Frontier, […]
  
• The MOP Up: RIFT’s Razorback Roundup is back, yeehaw!
  published on August 16th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  RIFT’s Razorback Roundup returned for another go this month: “Love is in the air, and we are no strangers to love, which is why we are bringing back Razorbacks! Starting today until August 20th, 2026, enjoy several daily and weekly quests to earn event currency and get yourself some amazing treats!” And this is just […]
  
• Fenris Creations’ fumbled moderation of an alleged EVE Online RMT streamer frustrates fans
  published on August 15th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Hey, who’s ready for some weekend online drama for dinner? Then belly on up to the EVE Online buffet because one of its developers and a livestreamer who has hitched his online personality to the sandbox have riled up the wider playerbase over some arguably goofed-up moderation by the former against the latter. Lorumerth, who […]
  
• Pearl Abyss Q2 2026: Crimson Desert tapers off, Black Desert flattens, DokeV eyes 2028
  published on August 13th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  As we noted last quarter, Pearl Abyss has shifted over to doing just earnings letters, not investor calls, and that pattern has continued into Q2 2026. And readers will recall that in Q1, Pearl Abyss was riding high on the launch of Crimson Desert, a game that was once an MMO but was downgraded into […]
  
• The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP event rages
  published on August 9th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Elder Scrolls Online’s famous Whitestrake’s Mayhem event is back for a limited time with new rewards: “Arm yourself with your best PvP gear and gather your strongest allies! The Whitestrake’s Mayhem in-game event has returned and is now live until August 12th. During this event period, as you duke it out with your fellow players […]
  
• Fenris Creations recaps EVE Online and EVE Vanguard’s Operation Avalon, hires Icelandic politician for ‘AI alignment’
  published on August 7th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  A month ago, Fenris Creations fka CCP Games launched Operation Avalon, an event that bound EVE Online players up with EVE Vanguard testers in a massive galactic quest. The event is over now, but Fenris has resurfaced with a recap to tell us how it all went from the studio’s perspective. “On the ground, warclones […]
  
• Massively Overthinking: What year of MMOs would you pick to repeat forever?
  published on August 6th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  A while back on the podcast, Justin joked that if he could pick one year to lock in and live in forever, it would be 2010 – at least as far as MMOs were concerned. And I think he might be right. It was a great year! We had all of the classic MMOs around […]
  
• Perfect Ten: All of the MMORPG expansions from 2003
  published on August 5th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  The year 2003 witnessed a huge boom in the MMORPG genre. It was the year of Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest Online Adventures, PlanetSide, EVE Online, and Lineage II. It also saw the most MMO expansions release to date: a nice even 10 packs rolled out for fans to enjoy. Since I had so much fun […]
  
• The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG isn’t playable on Steam Deck yet but should be?
  published on July 27th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  I feel very fortunate that I bought a Steam Deck a year ago instead of waiting since the price of everything has skyrocketed this year because of *gestures*. But I admit I’ve been somewhat disappointed at both the number of MMORPGs that function genuinely well on the platform and at my own ability to play […]
  
• The MOP Up: Warframe recaps the reveals of TennoCon 2026
  published on July 26th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  TennoCon 2026 is in the bag, and in case you missed all of its reveals, Digital Extremes put together a recap page with all the info. This includes the new Origin System, gameplay in the Tau system, and a sentient metropolis. And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for […]
  
• Blizzard fired the World of Warcraft staffer caught cheating with Death Touch (and actioned some of the players too)
  published on July 24th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Earlier this week, we covered the emerging story that a Blizzard staffer was caught helping a World of Warcraft Mythic+ group cheat their way to victory, exposed by players digging through parsed and published combat logs for the run. Now, Blizzard has actioned the players as well as the staffer – at the cost of […]
  
• EVE Online breaks down how September’s update will tweak player-built jump bridges
  published on July 23rd, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Players of EVE Online already know that September is bringing some changes to the sandbox with an eye on making sure that smaller orgs can compete with the long-established megaguilds, and one of those efforts is tied to the Ansiblex jump bridge, a player-built structure that basically lets authorized vessels jump between two pre-determined points. Since that structure […]
  
• World of Warcraft fans demand consequences for Blizzard staffer seemingly caught cheating in-game
  published on July 22nd, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  A fresh scandal is breaking out across the World of Warcraft scene today as a Blizzard staffer has apparently been caught helping someone cheat in the game. According to the megathread on Reddit – because of course this has a megathread – players dug up combat logs that suggest a GM or QA dev used […]
  
• EVE Online plans to scale back force projection to allow smaller groups a chance to be competitive
  published on July 20th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  It’s exceedingly tough to be a new kid — or a new corp — on the block in EVE Online these days, as nearly a quarter-century of live service has led to many established mega-corps squeezing out the competition. CCP penned a new dev blog talking about the problem with how these corps are to […]
  
• Here’s how EVE Online gamers can participate in their part of the EVE Vanguard Operation Avalon event
  published on July 8th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  When CCP Games/Fenris Creations launched EVE Vanguard’s Operation Avalon open alpha yesterday, we mostly considered it through the lens of the in-development MMOFPS rather than through EVE Online itself. However, the OG MMORPG is also running a concurrent event that ties into the Vanguard hoopla, and it’s worth a look even if you have no […]
  
• EVE Frontier plots a new region, more modularity, and community features in a video roadmap
  published on July 7th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  EVE Frontier has plans. Roadmap plans. Plans to make sure the blockchain survival MMO has new things to worry about and look forward to. At least in a gameplay sense; remember, Fenris Creations doesn’t want the blockchain game to be noted as just a blockchain game. Unless it heralds a blockchain partnership of course. But hey, […]
  
• EVE Vanguard has begun its Operation Avalon open alpha, and yes you’re invited to try it
  published on July 7th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  EVE Online fans who fancy testing out CCP Games’/Fenris Creations’ latest version of an EVE extraction MMOFPS are getting a fresh chance to do so as EVE Vanguard is kicking off its first alpha playtest. Dubbed Operation Avalon, this update and event are meant to “mark [the studio’s] move from experimentation into a more focused […]
  
• EVE Online’s Fenris Creations just open-sourced the Carbon engine framework it’s built on
  published on July 1st, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  EVE Online studio Fenris Games (CCP Games) made a surprising announcement this morning: It’s released the game’s engine framework as an open source toolset. “Fenris Creations today announced that Carbon, the next-generation cross-platform game engine framework behind EVE Online and EVE Frontier, has fully completed its transition to being completely open source,” the newly independent […]
  
• Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier adds a new tutorial, custom ships, and space hazards in latest update
  published on June 26th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Sure, those who were at EVE Fanfest already knew what was coming to the blochckain survival MMO EVE Frontier, but now they can experience it directly, as the game’s latest test build, aka Cycle 6: Sanctuary, came online this week. As previously reported, this build introduces a new system that lets players create modular ships that let them […]
  
• EVE Online studio has punished two partnered influencers over a Pride controversy
  published on June 18th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Earlier this month, we briefly covered a drama raging in the EVE Online community. In short, a content creator had apparently crashed out in an EVE Online stream and was punishing, mocking, and banning players for using Pride flag emojis in Twitch/Discord chat and wishing fellow gamers a happy Pride month. As we noted, the EVE […]
  
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 569: Luke, it is your Destiny 2
  published on June 16th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 & 3, World of Warcraft, EVE Online, and Destiny 2, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, Spirit Crossing, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on MMOing with a neural interface.
  
• The Daily Grind: What would you recommend as a gamer’s *second* MMORPG?
  published on June 16th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  We talk a lot about good first MMORPGs – that is, gateway MMOs, or the first introductory MMOs that people should play to give them a feel for the genre. It usually needs simple movement, questing, combat, a little bit of social but not too much. Basically, it needs to feel approachable for your kid […]
  
• EVE Vanguard’s devs discuss the design of the shooter’s semi-futuristic weapons
  published on June 15th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Since EVE Vanguard is an FPS, there’s obviously going to be a lot of attention paid to the guns that you can fire. After all, that’s where most of the personality is because it’s certainly not in your hands or your feet. As such, designing the guns is an important consideration, which happens to be the topic […]
  
• The MOP Up: Runes of Magic has its summer fun times
  published on June 14th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Summer events are all the rage in Runes of Magic right now: “Even couch potatoes know this Taborean summer is going to be hot. The inhabitants are enjoying a well-deserved vacation and are wading in crystal-clear water to escape the scorching sun. You should also go for a cool swim, because Runes of Magic will […]
  
• Perfect Ten: Pirate MMOs that boarded and plundered our gaming PCs
  published on June 10th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Avast ye landlubber! For not every MMORPG is a safe harbor, and not every ship you see on the horizon has your best interests in mind. Plenty of piratey MMOs have sailed the seas of online gaming over the years with varying degrees of success — and varying levels of visibility. Today we’ll be looking […]
  
• Interview: Fenris Creations CEO Hilmar Pétursson on the future of AI in EVE Online
  published on June 9th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  It’s been an odd few months for EVE Online and its developer Fenris Creations, with the company rebranding from CCP Games and buying itself back from parent company Pearl Abyss while securing investment from Google’s DeepMind AI group. The studio continues to press ahead with the next expansion to its now 23-year-old sci-fi MMO EVE […]
  
• EVE Online’s Cradle of War expansion kicks off the summer with military campaigns and newbie safe zone
  published on June 9th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  As if the week MMORPG fans are having could possibly be better than it already is, EVE Online has arrived with its summer expansion: Cradle of War. We permit you to rock it. “As tensions rise between New Eden’s great empires, Cradle of War opens the first chapter of the Theatres of War trilogy, a […]
  
• The MOP Up: Crimson Desert hints at an upcoming DLC
  published on June 7th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Crimson Desert’s team shared some of the projects coming to the game this summer — and hinted at a DLC to come, saying, “We plan to roll these updates out gradually from June through September, and we’re preparing them to be enjoyable both for those who have spent many hours in Pywel and for those […]
  
• EVE Online releases Cradle of War patch notes as the community erupts over controversial stream
  published on June 6th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  It’s a tale as old as time for EVE Online players. They hear about a new expansion/update, they get loads of videos and other details, and then they get the patch notes ahead of its launch. So it has come once again for Cradle of War, which shared its full patch notes before its Tuesday, June 9th, […]
  
• MMORPG history book The Archive successfully funds at double its Kickstarter ask
  published on May 29th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  It’s a small but vital win this week for fans of MMORPG history as one Kickstarter project crossed its finish line successfully — and then returned for another full lap and then some. The Archive: Epics of Virtual History funded at nearly $49,000 of its initial $20,000 ask, with 558 backers supporting the project. Authored […]
  
• EVE Online posts a video digest for Cradle of War’s features as Capsuleer Day reaches its zenith
  published on May 27th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  If you prefer to be shown the shiny coming to EVE Online’s Cradle of War expansion instead of just being told, then Fenris Creations has got you covered, as the studio has put out a new video digest showcasing the upcoming update’s big ticket additions. Naturally this means that the video briefs fans on things like […]
  
• Perfect Ten: Video games that spun off from MMORPGs
  published on May 27th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  We all know plenty of MMORPGs that emerged out of a video game franchise — World of Warcraft from the Warcraft RTS games or The Sims Online from some long-forgotten life sim series, for example. And we could cite a dozen or so sequels of MMOs without breaking a sweat. That’s not what this list […]
  
• EVE Online has already nailed down a date for its 2027 Fanfest
  published on May 24th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Did you catch your breath from all of the Fanfest reveals that came out of EVE Online? Well too bad, bucko, because the 2027 edition already has a calendar date. You do not get to rest. You will buy tickets early for an event happening a year from now. Sure enough, Fanfest 2027 will run from May 13th […]
  
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 566: Rock the Cradle of War
  published on May 19th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Justin and Bree discuss EVE Online's Cradle of War, EverQuest Legends' beta, Spirit Crossing's housing, Throne and Liberty, and financials for NCsoft, Nexon, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in WoW, Outbound, Palia, SWG Legends, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on solo MMORPG sims and AI bots.
  
• EVE Fanfest 2026: Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier adds custom ships and space hazards on June 25
  published on May 18th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  We’ve got some time between now and when EVE Frontier puts forth its next major test build, but fans are being given advanced notice of just what’s headed to the blockchain survival MMO, as Cycle 6: Sanctuary is offering up some big additions on Thursday, June 25th. One of the tentpole features for Cycle 6 […]
  
• MMO Hype Train: Is it smart or foolish for upcoming MMOs to embrace hardcore attitudes?
  published on May 16th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  With the collapse of the World of Warcraft clone trend that dominated the MMORPG development landscape for so long, we’ve seen a sort of “wild wild west” approach to MMO projects. The freedom is refreshing, but the results are all over the place and not conclusive that any one path is guaranteed to succeed. A […]
  
• EVE Fanfest 2026: EVE Vanguard opens Steam signups for Operation Avalon alpha test
  published on May 16th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Upcoming first person shooter EVE Vanguard has now officially opened signups for its upcoming alpha test event that will run from July 7th to 20th. Titled Operation Avalon by newly renamed studio Fenris Creations, the event will give players a good idea of the game’s lore and the core gameplay loop of deploying to planets, […]
  
• EVE Fanfest 2026: EVE Online’s Cradle of War expansion sets the universe on fire June 9th
  published on May 15th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  War is the engine that keeps the wheels of sci-fi MMO EVE Online turning, from the massive battles between players over territory and resources to the smaller fleets in faction warfare or even lone players hunting for targets in wormhole space. It’s been known for a long time that players who get involved in these […]
  
• Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG tutorials are actually effective – vs. functionally useless?
  published on May 15th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street dropped a random thoughtful Twitter thread this past weekend, remarking on how people learn in school – and how that translates to video game tutorials. His story sounds familiar; he was clever but never developed good study skills as a kid, which meant that for his advanced degrees, he was, to shameless […]
  
• Pearl Abyss Q1 2026: Black Desert and Crimson Desert push Pearl Abyss to huge revenues – without CCP Games
  published on May 14th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  I have to admit that when I sat down this morning to analyze the Pearl Abyss Q1 financial call, I was surprised… because there is no call. For the first time that I can recall, the company has apparently shifted to doing just an “earnings letter” instead of a presentation and investor call. The Korean […]
  
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 565: Happily Farever after
  published on May 12th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, EVE Online's CCP Games aka Fenris Creations, Path of Exile 2, Farever, Reaper Actual, Daybreak financials, and Aliens 2, with adventures in WoW, FFXIV, Outbound, and SWG Legends, and a mailbag topic on Ultima Online rogue servers.
  
• EVE Online’s Capsuleer Edda will preserve its history in a manuscript written in actual blood
  published on May 12th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Let it never be said that the folks behind EVE Online aren’t… creative in a lot of ways. Take, for instance, Fenris Creations’ Capsuleer Edda project, which seeks to preserve the digital history of New Eden in physical form. And that form is taking in manuscript and inked with players’ literal blood. “The Capsuleer Edda doesn’t solve […]
  
• EVE Online marks its annual Capsuleer Day and 23rd anniversary, EVE Frontier puts forth a new patch
  published on May 7th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  With all of the business-focused news coming out of EVE Online, it might have been easy to forget that the sci-fi gankbox is also marking an anniversary. That’s right, the game is officially 23 years old in 2026, which means the usual celebrations and reminiscing among players and devs. For in-game celebrational needs, last week kicked off […]
  
• The Daily Grind: Are you enthused about CCP Games’ ownership pivot and rebrand?
  published on May 7th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  I’ve got to be honest, CCP Games rebranding as Fenris Creations and going back to being at least partly self-owned does not fill me with confidence. Part of the reason for that is that if you’re rebranding as Fenris Creations, I am immediately going to ask why your CEO is naming things like a 15 […]
  
• ‘EVE continues’: EVE Online’s CCP Games rebrands as Fenris Creations, partners with Google DeepMind
  published on May 6th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Last week, the year-old rumor that Pearl Abyss was preparing to sell EVE Online studio CCP Games after having bought it back in 2018 finally bore fruit, as financial reporting made clear the Korean gaming giant had indeed sold CCP Games… back to CCP Games’ own executive management. As we noted, Pearl Abyss appeared to […]
  
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 564: Evercold or everwarmer?
  published on May 5th, 2026 at 02:15 PM
  
  
  Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Evercold and patch 7.5, Guild Wars Reforged's mobile port and patch, Guild Wars 2's The Only Way, Aion 2, Embers of the Uncrowned, Palia's spring expansion, SWTOR's 7.9 and 8.0, EVE Online's CCP Games, Conan Exiles, Dune Awakening, and Nightingale, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Palia, Farever, and Loftia.