Yearly Archives: 2016
Here’s how EVE Online’s new player experience is going to flow
Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren has a new development video out for EVE Online players this afternoon. She explains that as part of the free-to-play...
SWTOR teases Blur trailer for Knights of the Eternal Throne
Does it drive you crazy when MMO studios make an announcement that they're going to make an announcement? What about when they post a...
Paladins touts one million early access players, starts console beta sign-ups
Is Hi-Rez Studios' Paladins having a good week or a bad one? It's... kind of hard to tell, to be honest. It probably didn't...
The Stream Team: A peek into Cloud Pirates
If you had the chance to check out something that combines flight with pirates, you would, wouldn't you? MassivelyOP's MJ certainly couldn't pass up...
Massively OP’s guide to the best upcoming indie MMORPGs, part two
Last week, we introduced the first part of our guide to the best upcoming, in-development indie MMORPGs -- yes, the list was so long that...
Star Citizen’s dogfighting design is more about feeling right than being accurate
In this week's Around the Verse, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner tease CitizenCon -- now just a week away -- as team...
Crowfall dives deep into the pint-sized Duelist
Good things, they say, come in small packages. If you prefer playing diminutive characters over hulking slabs of beef, then Crowfall's Guinecean Duelist might...
The Stream Team: Touring Twin Saga with Aeria devs
MassivelyOP's MJ had an interesting first experience in Twin Saga. Now she has the chance to tour the game alongside the folks who made...
Superdata: WoW now charges a full monthly sub in China
Superdata's digital games market report for August 2016 landed in our inbox today. Those of you who've been consistently frustrated and confused over the...
The Netherlands is taking Pokemon Go creator Niantic to court
Pokemon Go's legal entanglements continue today as Niantic has been ordered to appear before a court in the Netherlands on October 11th. The California-based...
Dragon Quest fans are running a grassroots campaign for localizing Dragon Quest X
It's easy to forget that Square-Enix is running another MMORPG in addition to the two localized titles we have over here... unless, of course,...
RIFT explores the legendary powers of the Rogue and Primalist
One of the major features of RIFT's upcoming Starfall Prophecy expansion is the new high-level legendary powers that take normal skills and abilities and...
John Smedley says he exults in hands-on gamemaking with Hero’s Song
You might think that trading a position as CEO of a multi-game studio to work on a single, smaller, and most decidedly indie title...
Battleborn boss denies free-to-play plans
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has denied a Kotaku report that Gearbox is about to take its flagging shooter Battleborn free-to-play within a couple of...
The Daily Grind: How long should the MMORPG genre’s hardest raids take to beat?
This week, after World of Warcraft: Legion's mythic Emerald Nightmare raid launched, a Russian hardcore guild called Exorsus had the raid cleared within 18...
So one of Amazon’s new games is an MMORPG sandbox, and it’s called New World
Those ex-ArenaNet folks won't be going to waste at Amazon Game Studios after all: One of the three games the company is working on...
The Stream Team: Aiming for The Secret World’s The Unseen achievement
One of the many achievements in The Secret World is The Unseen. And MassivelyOP's MJ really wants it. To earn this, she has to...
Massively Overthinking: Are you suffering from MMORPG burnout?
In last week's Daily Grind about whether or not MMOs are better the second time you play them, the topic of burnout came up.
"I find...
Cloud Pirates invites select players into this weekend’s friends and family test
Cloud Pirates, the MOBA set in the Allods Online universe, is hosting a friends and family test this weekend. Why should that concern you?...
Devilian’s mobile version has launched in eight countries
GAMEVIL announced today that it's ported Korean-born hack-n-slash MMOARPG Devilian to mobile -- at least if you live in Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the...
