Yearly Archives: 2016
Massively OP Podcast Episode 53: The MMOs of winter 2016
Justin, Bree, and Matt discuss Blade & Soul, The Division, Black Desert, WildStar, Final Fantasy XIV, and a mailbag question on Destiny 2.
RIFT starts the countdown to its fifth anniversary patch
Things are about to get crazy fun up in RIFT. The game is looking forward to celebrating its fifth birthday soon, an occasion that will...
EVE Online compensates players with 200k skill points for server move downtime
EVE Online Executive Producer Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren has addressed EVE players in a new video posted to the official site. Nordgren apologizes for...
The Division releases US launch trailer
Fancy some eyecandy to go with your apocalypse? Ubisoft has posted the US launch trailer for online shooter The Division, and it's got a...
WildStar ups Omnibit drops for subscribers
If you're currently a WildStar subscriber, you're going to be getting a bit more with the price of your subscription. The development team announced...
Neverwinter promises June campaign, Icewind Dale stories
Cryptic Studios has just released a positively massive state-of-the-game letter for MMORPG Neverwinter. Executive Producer Rob Overmeyer begins by recapping 2015, noting that last...
Allods devs detail New Order’s new reforging system
Allods Online's upcoming New Order update is pretty hefty, and the latest dev blog sets out to explain the new reforging system. First, there's...
Survarium deploys patch 0.40 to its live servers with UI changes and weapon modules
Sure, you're in the middle of a pitched battle for survival with whatever you can find in Survarium, but that doesn't mean that you...
AdventureQuest 3D is launching cross-platform this October
What began as a cute RPG parody in flash back in 2002 will soon become a true cross-platform MMORPG. Artix Entertainment announced today that...
PWE shooter Livelock reveals trailer for player Vanguard
Perfect World's upcoming robot-vs.-robot co-op shooter Livelock has a new video today showcasing the player Vanguard.
"Quiet, diligent and calculated, Vanguard joins the roster of...
Camelot Unchained passes ‘send more programmers’ stretch goal
Camelot Unchained just announced that it's passed its "$3,900,000 - Send more programmers" stretch goal, which enables City State Entertainment to hire "two additional...
Hyperspace Beacon: How to run a roleplay event in spite of SWTOR’s mechanics
I have mentioned before that my community and I roleplay in spite of the game mechanics of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s not...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon is now in development
Are you interested in a Darkfall reboot? No, not the official one that rewrote the game's core structure, but something throwing the game back...
Star Citizen promises larger server capacity, talks about procedural tech
Seventy-seven episodes in, you'd think that Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen community would run out of questions about the game. But it looks...
Check out footage of the Figureheads Online pre-open beta testing
There's still no official announcement about Figureheads being localized in English, but Square-Enix's upcoming third-person mech-based shooter does have English localization files in its...
Chronicles of Elyria eyes May for its Kickstarter campaign, posts new footage
While it once started as a very small and inexpensive indie project, Chronicles of Elyria has grown over the past two years to the...
The Daily Grind: If an MMO has a cash shop, when should it launch?
Massively OP reader Leiloni pointed out to us something unusual about Black Desert: Its much-talked-about cash shop wasn't originally going to open until March 10th,...
The Stream Team: Having a hoppy Leap Day in Marvel Heroes
Leaping lizards! It's Leap Day, and things are really hopping in Marvel Heroes. Between getting a free toad pet and drowning in XP, how...
The Culling runs through its closed alpha test
The Culling, that Hunger Games-inspired multiplayer deathmatch game, is currently in the thick of its closed alpha test. A "select number of participants" pulled...
Shroud of the Avatar brings in fast travel and new player towns
More and more these days Shroud of the Avatar is looking like a whole game. It probably helps that the game seems to update...
