MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Best MMO bug we didn’t want fixed
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best MMO bug we didn't want fixed. (We call these silly awards the Golden...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best value MMOs going into 2023
Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that...
Blizzard-owned studio Proletariat announces plans to form a union
Workers at a third studio owned by Activision-Blizzard are planning to organize: Proletariat, which readers may recall was the studio behind battle royale game...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Most belated MMO apology
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for most belated MMO apology. (We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties in honor...
The Division 2 is coming to Steam on January 12
If you've been refusing to pick up The Division 2 until it arrived on Steam... well, goodness, you've been waiting a while. We applaud...
Microsoft claims the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit violates its fifth amendment rights
The beginning of this month saw Microsoft's big money buyout of Activision-Blizzard hit a US federal government-level snag when the FTC filed an antitrust...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Weidest thing people used to play an MMO this year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for weirdest thing people used to play an MMO this year. (We call these silly awards...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: The best very good boy in MMOs this year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for the best very good boy in MMOs this year, which is to say, the...
Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world
Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Most wholesome MMO cosplay
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for most wholesome MMO cosplay. (We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties in honor...
Betawatch: Waven’s alpha testing is active and rolling
So, how are things going with Waven's testing? Well, the good news is that the team is sharing regular patches and updates with fans....
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Dumbest thing added to an MMO this year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for dumbest thing added to an MMO this year. (We call these silly awards the...
Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’
Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2022
It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Leakiest MMO studio
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for leakiest MMO studio. (We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties in honor of...
TitanReach resurfaces with a 2024 launch promise, but it might have been stolen from the original studio
Last weekend we recounted some of 2022's largest MMO crowdfunding stories, and unsurprisingly one of the biggies was the saga of TitanReach, which ceased...
BlizzCon 2023 and Blizzard’s unnamed survival game are both still happening
The World of Warcraft roadmap wasn't the only thing Blizzard dropped yesterday just before the holidays: Blizzard president Mike Ybarra also penned an address...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Best worst MMO transmedia synergy
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards kick off today with our pick for best worst MMO transmedia synergy. (We call these silly awards the Golden Yachties...
Fractured vanishes from Gamigo’s site, Fawkes Games opens a weird website
Yesterday, we covered the distressing news that Gamigo had suffered layoffs - including the loss of RIFT's last remaining community manager, which is already...
Gamers file lawsuit to stop Microsoft’s buyout of Activision-Blizzard over monopoly concerns
The multi-billion dollar purchase of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft has run into another stern legal challenge, but this time it isn't coming from the Federal...
