The MOP Up mops up all the little itty-bitty MMO news tidbits that we missed during the week. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]
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The MOP Up: Champions Online ups the ante on Monster Island
With a name like "Monster Island," you wouldn't expect this Champions Online locale to be a walk in the park. And in fact, this...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online wises up
As the Necrom expansion looms in Elder Scrolls Online's future, there are several new NPCs for players to anticipating meeting. One of these is...
The MOP Up: Pokemon Go and the mystery of the missing 15-foot spoon
A Pokemon Go player helped solve a bizarre mystery: A 52-year-old man playing the MMOARG stumbled upon a massive 15-foot red spoon near a...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone welcomes the Year of the Wolf
The Year of the Wolf is coming to Hearthstone: "Throughout the Year of the Wolf, we’ll be focusing our efforts on making Hearthstone and...
The MOP Up: Open-world tactical RPG Wartales releases next month
Looking to wage medieval war in a different format? You'll soon get your chance with Wartales, an open-world tactical RPG that's fully luanching on...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 reworks its Gyala Delve meta-event
Guild Wars 2 pushed out a patch last week that adjusted how the Gyala Delve meta-event functions and doles out rewards. Part of this...
The MOP Up: Wolcen comes to consoles
Action RPG Wolcen is expanding its realms this week as it jumps to consoles on March 15th. Maybe it's time to check out this...
The MOP Up: SWTOR gets swoopy and plaguey in March
Star Wars: The Old Republic may not have a big patch coming out this month, but the MMO does have a couple of events...
The MOP Up: World of Tanks expands its garage to include tournament access
World of Tanks players are being treated to another round of feature ammo in the near future, as Wargaming is expanding the functionality of...
The MOP Up: New World brings a couple together in the name of love and conquest
A couple that met and fell in love while playing New World was invited by Amazon to share some tips about how to engage...
The MOP Up: SMITE delivers a ‘bonus’ update full of nerfs
SMITE delivered a "bonus update" to the MOBA's community this past week with several downward adjustments to various features. Speed buff got nerfed "by...
The MOP Up: Meet Starfall, a new indie Minecraft MMO
So many amazing projects have been birthed from Minecraft over the past decade-plus, including fully formed games. One of the newer of these is...
The MOP Up: Apex Legends revamps its matchmaking system
Ever wonder how a competitive online game pairs you up with other people for skirmishes? In a new dev blog, Apex Legends' team went...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy Record Keeper meets its finality
We're a little late to the party on this, but friend of the site Connor pointed out that Square Enix shut down yet another...
The MOP Up: Star Wars Galaxies’ Empire in Flames celebrates Boonta Eve
Star Wars Galaxies' Empire in Flames isn't lying down for January's drabness. Rather, the rogue server welcomed Boonta's Eve for the entire month. During...
The MOP Up: Spellcraft reflects upon growth and development in 2022
The Spellcraft team, made up of former ArenaNet and En Masse devs, paused their work on the upcoming real-time tactics game to reflect on...
The MOP Up: Chimeraland heads to the Epic Game Store
The unholy, unnatural, unbelievable Chimeraland has its sights set on a new conquest: the Epic Game Store. The studio announced that it's releasing on...
The MOP Up: ArcheAge attempts to end the year on a high note
This past week, ArcheAge's devs talked about the game's December plans and how the sandbox fantasy MMO is going to close out the year.
"We...
The MOP Up: Another look back at Final Fantasy XI’s history
Final Fantasy XI continued its series of retrospective interviews, this time sitting down with former GM Toshio Murouchi to talk about the history and...
The MOP Up: SWTOR spins a Bounty Hunter yarn
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it was nearly your bedtime and Star Wars: The Old Republic sat down next...
