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EVE Evolved: How could Project Nova live up to its true potential?

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I think it's fair to say that EVE Online developer CCP Games hasn't had much success when it comes to avatar-based gameplay. The studio's...

Population Zero is an upcoming crafting-survival MMO inspired by classic sci-fi

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Survival crafting games are all the rage these days, it seems, and the genre's about to get just a little bit bigger with the...

The MOP Up: TERA’s Valkyrie goes to console while Vainglory comes to PC

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No matter what platform you're on, there's good stuff coming your way! TERA's Valkyrie update is finally making the jump to Xbox One and...
Yes, this is ready.

Betawatch: Legends of Aria pushes back its Steam early access

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It's been a week of some speed bumps for Legends of Aria; after it reset progress with its karma system ahead of its early access...
PREPARE TO COMPLETE THE PREPARATION FOR COMPLETION

Crowfall’s first campaign is the last phase of its pre-alpha testing

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The ramp-up for Crowfall's first campaign in pre-alpha 5.8 continues, with the team kicking off the first snap testing on the game's test server. No,...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018

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It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.

Star Citizen shows off Lorville business district for 3.4.0 as alpha 3.3.7 goes live

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Sean Tracy and Steve Bender helm this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, and the dev update focuses on the culture and business district...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.

Digital Extremes’ retro OARPG Survived By has hit early access

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One of the nifty things on the way under Warframe developer Digital Extremes' publishing banner is Survived By, a retro permadeath bullet-hell MMO first...

BioWare touts Anthem’s story, drops Game Awards trailer

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During last night's Game Awards, while much of the news revolved around Red Dead Redemption 2 maybe winning a bit too much and WildCard's next...

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, the MMORPG’s battle royale mode, launches December 18

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Over the course of the fall, Ashes of Creation developer Intrepid Studios has been testing a battle royale mode component for the Kickstarted full-scale...

Torchlight Frontiers’ Dusk Mage harnesses both dark and light

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Don't call it Twilight anything -- the Dusk Mage has her own non-vampire thing happening. The most recent of Torchlight Frontiers' classes to be...

Dual Universe releases lengthy alpha video demoing its current sandbox content

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Dual Universe has been in alpha only a week, but the team is already celebrating with a new video designed to introduce future gamers...
I've talked out of both sides of my mouth now.

Temtem’s alpha adds Luma Ganki along with numerous bug fixes

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The initial backer alpha release of Temtem was pretty short on critters to catch, partly by design. So it's a good thing that the patch...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 199: Delay after delay

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Justin and Bree discuss delays and do-overs for Project Nova, Path of Exile, Fractured, and Blades, plus WildStar's sunset, Red Dead Online, and Fallout 76's many messes, with mailbag questions on keeping up with new MMOs and combat-free titles.

Saga of Lucimia’s pre-alpha 11 is live December 8 with SWG-style wounds and battle fatigue

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If you've been following Saga of Lucimia, you probably know how the game's build tests work in pre-alpha: Stormhaven opens the servers periodically with...

Toontown Rewritten’s latest player update buffs options and character movement

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Massively OP's own Justin "The Game Archaeologist" Olivetti deep-dived the history of Toontown Online in his column just about a year ago, but truth...
I tell you hwhat

Betawatch: Red Dead Online is alive and possibly not red

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Yes, it's possible that Red Dead Online is not very red, and it is definitely very much alive in beta testing. But calling it that...

Torchlight Frontiers gears up for another alpha test

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Following a fun and frisky first closed alpha test, Torchlight Frontiers is ready to dive right back into it. Alpha 2 is on its...

Project Nova’s alpha is postponed indefinitely as CCP Games heads back to the drawing board

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CCP Games has put the brakes on Project Nova, according to a message plastered on the company website today. The game isn't over, as...

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