Yearly Archives: 2018

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Monster Hunter World is coming to consoles this month and to computers this fall

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Monsters, beware: Your existence has a time limit. Monster Hunter World is only a few weeks away from its console release, as Capcom is coordinating...
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FCC extends accessibility requirement waiver for online games once again

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Last year, my husband deployed the requisite accessibility tools to the college science lab he runs to accommodate a bright student who happened to...
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Heroes of the Storm previews the upcoming hero Blaze

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Considering the pedigree of StarCraft II and the MOBA genre in general, you would think that Heroes of the Storm would have featured heroes...

What’s going on with Nerd Kingdom’s TUG?

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Despite promises earlier this year that both communication and development would be ramping up, TUG seems to have fallen into a well of silence...
Dark Age of Camelot

Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running in 2017?

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Those of you who've been following Massively OP for a while know that many our writers have a fondness for old MMORPGs - that's...
How near, how far.

Valiance Online previews its maps as it hunts down bugs

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Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That's true even if the bug is a severe...

Hyperspace Beacon: Three things SWTOR could add in 2018 to turn itself around

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Star Wars: The Old Republic did not have a banner year in 2017. It was the first year since the launch year that did...

Warframe shares how its business model keeps players happy and giving

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One of the reasons we and our readers admire Warframe is that this title hasn't descended into the questionable, aggressive, and despised business tactics...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2017

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Last year was positively stuffed with updates, expansions, and cool stuff. A lot of years I struggle to remember which major updates happened in...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds aims to be on every platform, but PS4 will take a while

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There's no escaping it. There's no denying it. And soon, there will be no avoiding it. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is already out for PC and Xbox...

Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017

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It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...

Black Desert’s first patch of 2018 awakens the Mystic and adds campsite feature

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The Mystic class that just flew westward at the tail end of last year is already busying herself with awakening, live in Black Desert...
Does this word mean something different to you?

LawBreakers is the weak link in Nexon’s Q3 2017 financial results

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Here's the good news for Nexon's Q3 2017 investor call: The company had a good set of third-quarter results overall, and it has a...
You aren't going anywhere for a while, right?

ESA pushes back against World Health Organization’s gaming disorder classification

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In case you missed it over the holiday break, but the World Health Organization announced it would be adding "gamer disorder" and "hazardous gaming"...

Nexon’s Hyper Universe is launching on January 17

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Looking for the first big release of 2018? Nexon is making a bid for your attention with the launch of Hyper Universe in just...

The Daily Grind: Would you be interested in a retro-styled MMORPG?

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As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...
Oh, Mr. Ross, always a pleasure.

Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2017: Happy little trees

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Today we're continuing our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2017! Coming in at #2 on our list is... SMITE honors 'painting god' Bob...

The Stream Team: Winter holidays in Neverwinter

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With a name like Neverwinter, you have to wonder how the cold-weather holidays are celebrated in-game. Wonder no more! Massively OP's MJ is diving...
LOUD NOISES!

Fortnite adds silencers in its first Battle Royale update of 2018

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The first Fortnite update of the new year has arrived for the Battle Royale mode, and it introduces the silenced pistol along with a...

MMO Year in Review: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.0 finally arrives (December 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey as we head into...

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