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Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...

Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! GDC 2021: Fresh off the digital GDC Summer 2020, Informa Tech announced that its...

Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games as medicine or for...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've found that being familiar with online communities and tech has really helped me survive...

I don't know about you readers, but one of the first things I always do when starting a game with voice acting (or movie)...

Long time followers of Astroneer may recall that the game's early development crafting felt cute but incomplete. Despite the game already being in the wild,...

Roblox VP of Product Deepak Chandrasekaran held a skill-building talk at GDC Summer 2020 this week titled Building the Metaverse through User Generated Content...

Let's be real: Some of the panel titles at GDC Summer 2020 are unintentionally misleading. For example, the "Evolution of Gacha Systems in Mobile...

I was really looking forward to Niantic's AR Game Design 101 panel at GDC Summer 2020 this week because for all my criticisms of...

The circle is now complete: Social media has mastered skills MMOs and online games haven't, not that social media was paying much attention to...

Just in time for Blizzard's latest labor crisis, Game Workers Unite UK treasurer Kevin Agwaze held an Ask Me Anything at GDC Summer 2020...

Quantic Foundry's Nick Yee gave a lecture at GDC Summer 2020 yesterday showing how the analytics firm's massive amount of data can be used...

Prior to this whole virus thing, one thing that I was enjoying about MMOs was how they (along with ideas taken from social media)...

GDC Summer 2020 is running all this week, and I'm, well, at home. But much like Pokemon Go, the convention adapted, and while I've...

A couple of weeks back, I was reading a piece on RPS that jokingly lamented the way the game reveals of this summer have...

Hey, it's been some time since we've done one of these roundup stories about the novel coronavirus' effect on gaming, and since there are...

It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...

More bad news for gaming convention-goers and esports fans: Everything is canceled. OK, not everything, but a lot. And not canceled, but postponed or...

Let's catch up on all of the craziness about how COVID-19 is impacting the world of gaming. It turns out that being locked inside...