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So, just how will Blizzard make sweet, sweet money off of Diablo IV? Expansions, surely. A cash shop, apparently. And that cash shop will...

Sometimes it's easy to forget that gamers over in China have it very different than we do in the west. If you need a...

Massively OP's own Justin Olivetti penned a blog post this week in which he muses on the lifespan of the $15 MMO sub fee,...

Remember last year when we polled our readers on how much money they'd spent on their Steam accounts? Most people seemed to track under...

So let's play a little round of bad news, good news with Path of Exile. Yesterday, with the Blight expansion not even a week...

So Prosperous Universe has officially gone free-to-play. But why? What makes a commerce-centric MMO open its doors to possible exploitation from free accounts? What...

We've all been beaten over the head with lots of news regarding predatory microtransactions practices, and there's certainly plenty of evidence that would lead...

If you want to watch a community livestream about Shroud of the Avatar's community team hosting a fishing contest in fetid water, gosh, today...

To all those sitting around with too many fossils in Path of Exile wishing that the items could be stacked, good news! The items...

I have really liked Guild Wars 2’s story in the last few years. Quite honestly, I wasn’t crazy about a lot of the base...

Old School RuneScape is, in its own words, "resolutely a subscription-only game," and as it's subscription-only game, one of the biggest things the devs...

Last week, games psychologist Jamie Madigan tweeted an underrated comment about how psychological tricks used in restaurant menu design are also found in video...

We've known about Starbase for just a week, and already Finnish developer Frozenbyte is amping up the hype with a third video, this one...

Somehow I hadn't heard of Eden Rising until it launched out of early access as a free-to-play title, so to me at least it...

It's a day that ends in "y" and so that means some fresh lootbox-related news to share with you fine folks! First up is an...

The gamblebox issue isn't dying down any time soon, it appears. As Kotaku first reported, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has announced he plans to...

The Elder Scrolls: Blades is having a bit of a rough release, what with the endless string of criticism over its business model and...

There is no shortage of things to do in Guild Wars 2. Wandering around the world and exploring is a joy, and players are...

The downside of Star Trek Online's new roadmap is that it is not overburdened with elaborate details about the content that's coming to the game...

Monetization is always a tricky topic in MMOs, especially when it comes to microtransactions, but that's just the territory that Project Gorgon devs are...