Yearly Archives: 2016

Remember The Video Game Debate? The game research book edited by Thorsten Quandt and Rachel Kowert, the latter of whom we've been covering here since Massively-that-was? Good....

It's always important to keep in mind that early access is quite often just an alpha in need of a great amount of construction...

It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...

LawBreakers has been super quiet all fall following Boss Key's announcement that it planned to dig back into development based on the feedback from...

Bethsoft released a brand-new trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online last night at The Game Awards, this one talking up One Tamriel's launch and...

Last year, the developers of Star Wars the Old Republic changed the focus of the game. Instead of continuing to make Knights of the Old...

This month's Camelot Unchained newsletter has arrived, and it's packed -- official word count: 7886. On the staffing front, which is net good news,...

As many of you are well aware, we here at Massively OP are pretty fascinated with the work being done by MMO industry veterans...

Players who log on to World of Warcraft's 7.1.5 test realm will no doubt have already noticed that secondary stats just aren't what they...

There are good points and bad about getting imports from overseas, but one of the good, at least from my perspective, is that we...

At the 2016 Game Awards last night, gamers laid eyes on Dauntless, a new online multiplayer (but not massively so, alas) RPG from indie...

It's easy to imagine that Warframe's console crowd has to be downright antsy over the wait to play The War Within as weeks go...

Prolific MOP commenter Sally Bowls posted a note last week that stood out to me as something we should all be seriously considering. Most...

Earlier this week, Daybreak told players it wanted to get back to time-limited events in DC Universe Online. "Events make logging in every day...

Have you ever played chicken ball? Yes -- you heard that right. Chicken ball. LOTRO has a special sport called Hobnanigans that is all...

Pretty much every game that has some sort of in-game resort has exactly the same sort of in-game resort, and it's on a beach....

Over a week after Starfall Prophecy's launch, RIFT is still trying to get on top of the many issues and bugs that have plagued...

A casual glance at the information available seems to indicate that Armored Warfare has not lit the world on fire. But the development team...

Perfect World wasted no time in pulling the trigger on its crop of winter holiday events now that December is here. The MMORPG publisher...

If you've been away from Final Fantasy XIV, perhaps December is the month when you'd like to give it another try. Really, what else...