WildStar starts testing free-to-play patch - WildStar's free-to-play transition is just around the corner, as testing commenced today on the fall patch. The public test realm update includes the new business model, cash shop, and other Drop 6 changes and features. That…
Here’s what’s in WildStar’s massive fall patch - Yesterday we reported that WildStar began stress testing its fall free-to-play patch, and since then players have been reporting in with pictures and details of this massive update. While Carbine hasn't posted a list of patch…
EverQuesting: (Almost) everything we know about EverQuest Next - In a perfect world, we'd have the mana of EverQuest Next news raining down from the sky, enough to satiate our hunger for information about the game we've long looked forward to. Instead, to many of…
Nexus Telegraph: Four things that have me excited about WildStar’s F2P patch - Hot dog! This past week's stress test of the new fall patch for WildStar (it doesn't have a name yet, and Carbine is getting away from the "drop" moniker) got me all worked up over the…
Neverwinter introduces scaling subscription VIP program - Free-to-play Neverwinter has decided to dip its toes in the neighboring pool of subscriptions, as Cryptic announced that it's now offering a VIP membership to players who want to pay on a monthly basis. VIP packs…
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns starts first public beta weekend - You won't need to head all the way out to Gamescom this week to see the latest and greatest in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. ArenaNet is actually hosting the expansion's first public beta weekend...…
Shards Online: Proposing the ‘persistent online world’ game - Last week, our comments erupted over some game studios' haphazard use of the term "MMO" -- and how that overuse and misuse has possibly tainted the genre, leading other studios to avoid its use altogether. One of the…
Perfect Ten: Clever features that should be in more MMOs - MMOs are built on the backs of many interlocking systems, some more crucial to the experience than others. While I have great appreciation for the core systems that make up these games, such as combat, crafting,…
Camelot Unchained launches community modding effort - The team behind Camelot Unchained wants the game to have a solid, modifiable interface. That's a commendable goal, but it's also something that's hard to do without a modding community. So as explained in a recent…
Heimburg: Project Gorgon is ‘the most ambitious thing I’ve ever attempted’ - It seems like half the Massively staff has been playing Project Gorgon here lately, so we figured it was time to seek out the devs at Elder Game and ask them a few burning questions. Lead…
Tree of Savior starts limited English closed beta testing - Many gamers are trying to get a handle on what Tree of Savior will offer, an issue that's slightly compounded by the fact that the beta has only just arrived in the West on Steam. And…
Reddit revolt erupts over Elite: Dangerous expansion price - Not everyone was thrilled at today's news that Elite: Dangerous would be expanding to allow for planetary touchdowns with its upcoming Horizons expansion. One monster thread has erupted on the Elite: Dangerous subreddit complaining that the…
Dota 2’s International interrupted by DDoS attacks - If you managed to catch any of Dota 2's $18 million International 2015 yesterday, you may have seen players sitting around scratching their heads instead of killing each other's avatars. Valve's big e-sport event was interrupted by…
Destiny shows off a new Taken King trailer, Bungie is hiring PC tester - 10If you're still excited for Destiny's next expansion, The Taken King, you'll be happy to know that there is a new trailer available now. While it's not big on showing off gameplay details, it does have…
Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City is kinda like Oblivion’s - Elder Scrolls Online's Imperial City DLC is a few weeks away, but you can whet your appetite via a new dev diary that looks at the creation of the Arboretum district. Parts of it will feel…
ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to Xbox One early access this winter - If you want to play ARK on a console for whatever reason, you've only got to wait a few more months. We've known for a while that the dino survival sandbox currently trampling its Steam competition was also scheduled…
EverQuest II plans server ‘consolidation’ in August - It's all well and good to prefer lower-population servers, but you can also reach a point when the population is so low that you can no longer find players to actually share the game with. This is…
Hi-Rez is making Paladins, a team FPS with deckbuilding - Hi-Rez has been hinting at its new project in recent weeks, and while we were expecting to get an eye full of it at Gamescom, the firm has gone ahead and spilled the beans to IGN.…
An exclusive talk with RIFT’s Chris Junior on the Nightmare Saga and more - RIFT is starting to make more noise as 2015 marches on, particularly with its recent Patch 3.3. This newest update added a major saga to the game and other neat features, and so to catch up…
CCP announces Gunjack, a VR title for mobile - Move over, EVE Valkyrie. Gunjack is CCP's newest virtual reality pet project. Gunjack is in development for the Samsung Gear VR platform, and yes, that makes it a mobile game. Players take on the role of…
LOTRO announces its 10 surviving servers - Lord of the Rings Online has begun the process of closing down some of its servers and encouraging players to migrate to one of 10 remaining worlds in order to boost population density. Today Turbine announced…
Ex-WoW lead Rob Pardo says industry devs are avoiding the ‘MMO’ label - MMOs aren't going anywhere, but the label may be on the way out. This comes from former World of Warcraft lead Rob Pardo, who said in an interview that developers are avoiding the term "MMO" like…
RIFT community manager: ‘RIFT is in zero danger’ - The health of a game is always important to the players; no one wants to make a home that's going to be shut down in a few weeks. Players on the RIFT forums were asking about…
