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For about 15 years, I’ve had an MMORTS shaped hole in my heart. I didn’t even realize it was there. I used to play...

The open beta for Phantasy Star Online 2 has kicked off today on the Xbox One, with Windows 10 still listed as "coming soon."...

While words and recommendations can certainly be considered equal to vapor, the fact that Australia's parliament appears poised to make moves against lockbox monetization...

The developers of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem recently sat down for an interview with Gamestar - it's in German, but a helpful Reddit post has...

With Bless Unleashed finally approaching a launch, the developers want you to be aware of it and feeling good about giving it a spin. And...

Every so often you just get to see a news story and think to yourself that this is going to turn into a major issue...

Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...

Last week on The Game Archaeologist, we examined the exciting beginnings of Guild Wars, thanks to a trio of ex-Blizzard developers who wanted to...

Mobile gaming and breaking into the Chinese gaming market (however lucrative that may or may not be) are still going to be things that...

Well now, the Diablo franchise just got a wee bit more interesting. Prominent Epic and Microsoft developer Rod Fergusson announced last night that he's...

There's just something about Destiny 2 repeating its own history. Think back to 2017, when the game's Dawning holiday event caused a furor over...

Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...

If you ask me, you can never have enough cute in your MMORPG diet, so at least from a visual standpoint consider me passing...

EVE Online has been a PC MMO staple now for over 16 years, carving out a niche for itself as a long-term hobby with...

Epic Games and Google are butting heads in what continues to be the technology version of a DragonBall Z fight with similar levels of...

A new content update for an MMO is exciting enough, but when you pair it up with $53,750 worth of prizes, it blows off...

The biggest problem you can get with exchanges between real-money currencies and in-game currencies in MMOs is when one is far more valuable than...

SuperData's October 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is up today, and if you were hoping the PC and console industry...

RuneScape is a pretty old game, but it has a new way of doing business as a free-to-play MMORPG with various microtransaction models and...

This news will very likely elicit replies of "well, duh" from many, but now there are numbers from Superdata to back it up: Overall...