China is approving games again, but none of them is from Tencent or Netease
After nearly a year of being frozen, China's approval process for games lurched into life once more in December, with 80 titles approved in...
Activision Blizzard’s CFO is ousted and appears to be getting hired by Netflix
It's a new year, but we've still got some last vestiges of last year's corporate ongoings to close out the events of 2018. Isn't...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2018
Over the last couple of years since becoming Massively OP, we've made a concerted effort to improve the quality of our gaming science-related articles, as...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio had the best communication in 2018?
This past fall, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts raised more than a few eyebrows when he claimed that "no other game shares as much information...
Fallout 76 asks banned players to submit a 500-word essay on why cheating is wrong
So we all know that Fallout 76 is a buggy mess by this point, which means that until it becomes not a buggy mess,...
Daybreak found another 6000 $300 lifetime subs to sell, somehow
A week before Christmas, Daybreak announced that it was selling a $300 lifetime sub for its current stable of MMORPGs: a new version of...
The Daily Grind: Will you kickstart any MMOs in 2019?
Last year, I realized that I hadn't backed any video games. I didn't back any this year either. Oh, sure, some of the games...
Blizzard’s corporate culture is becoming much more cost-focused with stronger Activision influence
Let's start with the good news here. According to the most recent article covering Blizzard's ongoing corporate culture shifts on Kotaku, the studio's shifts...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s big investment, Ashes of Creation’s Apocalypse
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen studio Cloud Imperium ended the year with a bang, offsetting the reveal of its Squadron 42 roadmap...
Betawatch: Crowfall’s test campaigns have arrived, City of Titans delays Issue 0
Good news, Crowfall fans, the first full campaign patch is here! Of course, this is just a test campaign; the first sanctioned campaign (which is...
Blizzard details new HOTS cadence, shames toxic Overwatch pros, and pays over 100 Irish staff to leave
Despite the recent news from Blizzard that Heroes of the Storm's development cadence is being scaled back, with some of its developers being shifted...
FBI seizes 15 different websites hiring out DDoS services
Isn't it awesome that you can go to a website, pay some money (or Bitcoin, of course this would take Bitcoin), and then have...
No Man’s Sky multiplayer finally hits beta for GOG players
No Man's Sky took its place in the hierarchy of multiplayer titles - even MMOs, one might argue - this year with the addition...
Smilegate taps Mail.Ru to run Korean MMORPG Lost Ark in Russia as early access package sale goes live
Smilegate is continuing its global rollout of Lost Ark, now with the selection of a publisher for Russia and the CIS region, according to...
WoW Factor: The great Superdata fall-off
The one down side to working ahead is that sometimes your schedule gets nudged around more than expected. I promise that a further look...
Artifact patches in balance, skill rating, and account leveling… which, yes, means free tickets and packs
When it first launched, Artifact promised that it would "reimagine" the online card game market in a game with cards only bought for real money,...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2018?
Last week, as part of MOP's 2018 awards rollout, we asked you about the best trend of the year for our genre. We were...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2019
With 2018 drawing to a close and 2019 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold and goofy predictions for the year ahead. We’re feeling pretty good after our successful predictions from last year! What’s in store for the MMO genre next year? Here’s what we think.
Star Citizen ATV, Squadron 42’s projected 2020 beta, and Cloud Imperium’s $46M private investment
This week's Around the Verse does touch on the 3.4 release of Star Citizen, but the big news is definitely from Squadron 42, which...
Entropia Universe allows players to purchase shares to invest in the Crystal Palace
In the first half of 2019, you can get money for the loot other people earn in Entropia Universe. Yes, really. The game is going...