Blizzard is investigating Overwatch team’s ‘social experiment’ hoax [Updated]
The first female member of an Overwatch Contenders team is now also the first female player to leave an Overwatch Contenders team. Ellie had joined the...
Massively OP’s complete 2018 awards debrief and annual recap
As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 - it's becoming a real tradition here! - today I'm going to recap our annual awards and...
Town of Salem suffers database breach, compromising user data
The developers of indie deceit-and-deduction game Town of Salem received an unwelcome surprise upon returning from their holiday vacations, when they were informed that...
The Hearthstone leads Blizz lost last year just scooped up the Marvel IP with their new studio
Blizzard had a rough year losing key figures at the company last year - heck, this week it lost its CFO to Square Inc....
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2019
This week, for our first Massively Overthinking of 2019, I’ve asked the Massively OP writers to share their gaming resolutions or their basic MMO goals for the year. Won't you join us?
Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO of 2018?
Last week, we announced our award for MMO of the Year; it once again went to Final Fantasy XIV. You might notice that XIV...
ZeniMax Media trademarks Deathloop for mobile games
So here's a nice entry for your speculation bin. ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda, has filed for a trademark for "Deathloop" under...
Ashes of Creation snaps up another Daybreak dev, this time from H1Z1 Just Survive
Daybreak's loss is Ashes of Creation's gain. Again.
Intrepid Studio's habit of roping in former developers from SOE and Daybreak continues, as former H1Z1: Just...
Nexon’s founder is selling off his controlling interest – for $9 billion
So, anybody got a spare $9B to buy up the biggest gaming company in South Korea?
Reuters reported last night that Nexon founder Kim Jung-ju...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future looking into 2019?
One of the most popular roundups we do every single year is about the healthiest MMORPGs in the genre. I love it because it...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2018
We can't do an accurate "most popular MMORPG articles of 2018 by pageviews" list as we usually do thanks to skewed data from MOP's extensive...
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...
