EVE Vegas 2017: CCP announces new EVE-based mobile MMO Project Aurora
At the opening presentations of EVE Vegas 2017, CCP Games announced that it has teamed up with mobile developer PlayRaven to produce a totally new...
Betawatch: Wild Buster has opened a limited alpha (October 6, 2017)
Is this a real game? Did this happen again? Wild Buster added Serious Sam alongside Duke Nukem. We must acquiesce, neither is in the...
Leaderboard: Do e-sports belong in the Olympics?
Nielsen has a massive "fan report" out this week dubbed The E-Sports Playbook, covering audiences in the US, UK, Germany, and France and focusing...
Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs
Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...
Battle royale mode propels Fortnite to over seven million players, adds supply drops and duos
One million players? That was September. Now it's (early) October, and Fortnite Battle Royale has already shot across the seven million player line without...
Elder Scrolls Online kicks off ‘#10MillionStories’ campaign in honor of 10M players
Back at E3, the ZeniMax Elder Scrolls Online team announced that it had accumulated 10 million unique players since its original launch in 2014 -...
Hyperspace Beacon: The pros and cons of SWTOR’s United Forces server merges
First, if you're hoping this is going to be an article hating on server merges and declaring them the ruination of an MMO community,...
The BlizzCon schedule is out, and it sure has some World of Warcraft panels
Again, we caution our readers, as we did yesterday, that there is not any official announcement of an announcement regarding the next World of...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community rocked by death threat controversy
Here is a lesson that we should all take to heart: Smack talk is one thing, actual death threats are entirely another.
The Counter-Strike: Global...
League of Legends dev who insulted streamer is no longer with Riot Games
Two days ago, we reported that a League of Legends developer had landed himself in hot water after he went grossly overboard in insulting...
Armored Warfare reorients its business model to ‘improve overall ecosystem health’
If you were one of the folks who suspected the Cloud Pirates sunset was intended to divert resources to My.com's other games, well, today's...
Guild Wars 2 is now selling waypoint unlocks in the cash shop
With today's update, ArenaNet has begun selling waypoint unlocks in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop.
"You know the drill. You’re trying to reach East...
Rumor: Blizzard is buffing Battlenet with chat channels, offline mode
The dataminers at MMO-Champion may have just figured out one of the big reveals Blizzard has cooking for BlizzCon next month. It revolves around...
Blizzard is hiring for a production director for the Diablo franchise
Remember last week's announcement that there would be no news for Diablo III or any other part of the Diablo franchise at this year's...
Farewell to My.com MOBA Cloud Pirates, which sunsetted over the weekend
If you blinked, you missed it: Cloud Pirates shut down over the weekend.
My.com announced that it was giving up on its Allods-themed Cloud Pirates...
SWTOR’s United Forces update includes a massive server merge
BioWare has just announced Star Wars: The Old Republic's United Forces update, a massive merge of the game's 17 servers down to five in...
Chinese players review bomb PUBG on Steam over in-game VPN ads
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Valve said it was continuing to seek ways to crack down on review bombing, the practice of...
Hawken will sunset its PC Steam servers in January 2018, but not console servers
Free-to-play online shooter Hawken is sunsetting its Steam servers for PC users, Reloaded Games announced today, causing reviews of the game to tank.
"After 3...
This is how MMO lockboxes manipulate your mind
It is not going to shock you to hear that lockboxes are kind of evil. We here at Massively OP have been beating on...
Riot apologizes for League of Legends dev who joked about streamer’s hypothetical death
Over the weekend, a Riot Games developer made a Terrible Mistake: Lead Experience Designer Aaron "RiotSanjuro" Rutledge insulted a banned streamer in League of Legends' public...
