Rumor: Blizzard’s next title involves vehicles and may be an Overwatch spinoff
There's a title under development at Blizzard that's been hiring for a while now, but no one actually knows what it is. So when...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2017?
Every year for the last many years, we've done some sort of award for the most underrated MMO, or even the year's sleeper hit....
Funcom gets $10.6M investment, signs deal to handle Conan and other RPG properties
Funcom's not quite done with Conan just yet, not by a long shot.
The Conan Exiles studio announced today that it has signed a deal...
Extra Credits on how to win, lose, and measure gamer trust
How does a "great series get driven into the ground," eroding player trust? That's precisely the subject tackled in a recent edition of the...
Make My MMO: The Star Citizen lawsuit and Camelot’s weed (December 16, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, eyebrows across the 'verse rose as Crytek filed a lawsuit alleging that the studios behind Star Citizen and Squadron...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation testing is set for today (December 15, 2017)
Who wants to play a guessing game? If you're an Ashes of Creation backer, you get to play one whether you answered yes or...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
Dungeon & Fighter: Spirit shuts down in South Korea
Once one of the up-and-coming mobile MMOs on the scene, Dungeon & Fighter: Spirit is ending its short-lived run in South Korea.
The action MMO,...
The developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds laments the lack of video game IP protection
Did you know that there's no real IP protection for video games? We didn't know that either; we seem to recall a lot of...
Path of Exile updates players on the team’s current projects
So the most recent major update for Path of Exile is out now. You can enjoy War of the Atlas and the Abyss League...
Gaming industry roundup: SWBG2’s poor sales, Gambling Commission, slot machines, and parody games
Don't agree that lockboxes, lootboxes, and gambleboxes were the biggest story of the year? We've collected so many news tidbits just on that over...
RIFT would like to sell you a random mount for $100
We were talking on the podcast this week about how Trion Worlds tends to aggressively pursue different revenue streams in its MMOs -- and...
Meta: Patreon has rolled back plans to change fee structure
Hello MOP readerbase! As you are likely aware, Massively OP's funding is a hybrid, coming both from advertising and from reader donations, most of...
Crytek sues Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium, alleging copyright infringement
Update: We've updated with CIG's official statement to us below.
Crytek is suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling...
Pantheon begins pre-alpha testing for high-end backers
It's a big day for indie MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, as it's the first day the gates open to external pre-alpha testers...
Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss on feedback, cadence, and avoiding ‘aggressive’ business models
Pearl Abyss' Dae Il Kim sat for an interview with InvenGlobal earlier this fall that's just gone live, and while it might be a...
Wild Terra announces launch for December 18th
'Tis the season for surprise launches, fa la la la and so on. Wild Terra is officially launching on December 18th, bringing the game...
Ship of Heroes recaps 2017, teases Christmas event, and looks ahead to 2018’s beta
Who says you have to have launched to have holiday events? Not Ship of Heroes. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG has a...
Trion is trying to bring Defiance up to date on modern consoles
Most of you probably think of Defiance as "that game that used to tie into a TV show and is probably on borrowed time."...
New Zealand declares lootboxes not gambling under the law
Are lootboxes gambling? It seems like such a simple question, but it really isn't simple from a legal or ethical standpoint, and the answer...
