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Apple now demands lootbox odds disclosures from Appstore games

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No matter what type of mobile device you run as your daily driver, you're probably going to be surprised to hear that Apple is...
Catching up, caching out.

Dark Age of Camelot is developing a free-to-play option for 2018

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While many MMO studios wait until January to release their year preview letters (and the lazy ones put it off until Ash Wednesday), Dark...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has officially launched today; are you playing?

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Conventional wisdom says you probably shouldn't launch a blockbuster video game four days before Christmas, but then conventional wisdom never met PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which...

Star Citizen has put out yet another expensive concept ship, and it’s a tank – literally

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File this one under "bad press is still press right guys" or possibly "are you even kidding me right now": Star Citizen announced today...
ring ring ring

Massively OP Podcast Episode 149: Bringing back the MMO magic

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW, MMO holiday events, ArcheAge, the site awards, EverQuest, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, RIFT, the Star Citizen lawsuit, and Funcom, with mailbag topics on horror MMOs and "iterating the magic away."
Not like that, no.

Rumor: Blizzard’s next title involves vehicles and may be an Overwatch spinoff

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There's a title under development at Blizzard that's been hiring for a while now, but no one actually knows what it is. So when...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2017?

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Every year for the last many years, we've done some sort of award for the most underrated MMO, or even the year's sleeper hit....

Funcom gets $10.6M investment, signs deal to handle Conan and other RPG properties

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Funcom's not quite done with Conan just yet, not by a long shot. The Conan Exiles studio announced today that it has signed a deal...

Extra Credits on how to win, lose, and measure gamer trust

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How does a "great series get driven into the ground," eroding player trust? That's precisely the subject tackled in a recent edition of the...

Make My MMO: The Star Citizen lawsuit and Camelot’s weed (December 16, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, eyebrows across the 'verse rose as Crytek filed a lawsuit alleging that the studios behind Star Citizen and Squadron...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation testing is set for today (December 15, 2017)

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Who wants to play a guessing game? If you're an Ashes of Creation backer, you get to play one whether you answered yes or...
This guy, though... he didn't get it.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017

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For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...

Dungeon & Fighter: Spirit shuts down in South Korea

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Once one of the up-and-coming mobile MMOs on the scene, Dungeon & Fighter: Spirit is ending its short-lived run in South Korea. The action MMO,...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

The developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds laments the lack of video game IP protection

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Did you know that there's no real IP protection for video games? We didn't know that either; we seem to recall a lot of...
I'm watching it... burn...

Path of Exile updates players on the team’s current projects

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So the most recent major update for Path of Exile is out now. You can enjoy War of the Atlas and the Abyss League...

Gaming industry roundup: SWBG2’s poor sales, Gambling Commission, slot machines, and parody games

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Don't agree that lockboxes, lootboxes, and gambleboxes were the biggest story of the year? We've collected so many news tidbits just on that over...

RIFT would like to sell you a random mount for $100

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We were talking on the podcast this week about how Trion Worlds tends to aggressively pursue different revenue streams in its MMOs -- and...

Meta: Patreon has rolled back plans to change fee structure

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Hello MOP readerbase! As you are likely aware, Massively OP's funding is a hybrid, coming both from advertising and from reader donations, most of...

Crytek sues Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium, alleging copyright infringement

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Update: We've updated with CIG's official statement to us below. Crytek is suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling...

Pantheon begins pre-alpha testing for high-end backers

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It's a big day for indie MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, as it's the first day the gates open to external pre-alpha testers...

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