Chinese regulators go into damage control mode after proposed gaming restrictions burn $80B in market value
Last week we reported on some newly drafted restrictions by Chinese regulators that were aimed at curbing game time, limiting rewards for spending and...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Prank
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Prank. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Launch Announcement
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Launch Announcement. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Charity Effort
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Charity Effort. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
China’s government drafts new restrictions on gaming time, spending and login rewards, and lockboxes
The Chinese government has decided to once more consider a tightening of the thumbscrews on gaming, as regulators in the country have issued a...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Most Cursed Object in an MMO This Year
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Most Cursed Object in an MMO This Year. Yes, it's the...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation and Age of Water target next year for more testing
Turns out that this week you were obligated to have some testing plans ready for 2024 if your game title is structured as X...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Mascot
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Mascot. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Most Inadvisable MMO Name
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Most Inadvisable MMO Name. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named...
War Thunder player goes undercover and busts cheating source code and scripts
So we all know of War Thunder as a game where military secrets are leaked to win forum arguments, which means that it's reasonable...
Bobby Kotick finally departs Activision-Blizzard next week, but Microsoft will keep some of his execs
Bobby Kotick - a man who somehow hung onto his job even after The Wall Street Journal published the revelation that he'd threatened to...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Microtransaction
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards kick off today with our award for the Best Worst MMO Microtransaction. Yes, it's time once again for the Golden...
Winter holiday events around the MMORPG world, 2023 edition
'Tis the season, once again, for end-of-year roundups and the ever-lovable event roundup, and you know that we've got one for you hear for...
QA employees accuse Activision-Blizzard of a ‘soft layoff’ after studios mandate a return to offices in January
Activision-Blizzard is once again electing to mistreat its QA employees according to a statement from the A Better ABK proto-union, which accuses the company...
EVE Online deepens partnership with community content sharing platform Just About
It's been proven multiple times that EVE Online studio CCP Games chases shiny trends more readily than an easily distracted puppy, so perhaps the...
Activision-Blizzard settles its 2021 California Civil Rights department lawsuit for $50M
Who here wanted one final reminder before the end of the year that we live in a cursed capitalist hellscape where justice can be...
Naughty Dog cancels The Last of Us Online owing to ‘the massive scope of [its] ambition’
Naughty Dog - a studio that's primarily known for its single-player titles - was looking to enter our sphere of the gaming world when...
Betawatch: Skull and Bones kicks off closed beta, Corepunk launches closed test with no NDA
Apparently Skull and Bones is now in closed beta. According to the game's "official Twitter account" and "sources familiar with the matter," anyhow. Do...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2023
Some years, it's hard to really cut a distinction between the biggest stories of a year and the biggest surprises. There can be a...
Shit-stirring happens: DayZ and Icarus offer survival fans discount in cheeky ‘The Day After’ deal
Considering Fntastic's week of self-inflicted woes, we can't really blame the marketing departments of Bohemia Interactive and Rocketwerkz for taking advantage of the situation,...
