California DFEH appeals court denial to intervene in Activision-Blizzard’s EEOC settlement
California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing is not about to call it quits on fighting Activision-Blizzard's settlement with the US's Equal Employment Opportunity...
Take-Two acquires Zynga for a price of $12.7 billion
If you've ever played one of the FarmVille games and thought that it would be much better if you could hop in a stolen motor...
Jagex 2020 financials outline increases in revenue, subscriptions, and microtransaction sales
Yes, we are reporting on financial news coming out of 2020 from RuneScape and Old School RuneScape developer Jagex because said information was only...
Sega will stop chasing the NFT dragon if it is ‘perceived’ as a ‘simple money-making’ scheme
With so many major studios and game publishers looking to join in on the blockchain and NFT racket, it'd be easy to believe that...
World of Warcraft senior game designer Johnny Cash leaves Blizzard
World of Warcraft lost another one of its big name developers this last week. Johnny Cash -- no, not that one -- announced that...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2021
It's now become a long-running tradition on Massively OP to track science stories that track with online gaming and MMOs - this is our...
GameStop plans to create an NFT and crypto marketplace this year
If you've ever wondered how GameStop manages to keep making the worst decisions and losing money with a zeal and intensity usually reserved for...
Richard Bartle’s new book seeks to intersect theological thought and MMORPG design
If you're new to our genre, first of all welcome, and second of all you should be familiar with Dr. Richard A. Bartle, a...
E3 2022 will once more be an all-digital event in the face of COVID omicron surge
The omicron variant of COVID-19, which has been surging across the US to the tune of over 600K daily infections, has once again forced...
MassivelyOP’s complete 2021 awards debrief and annual recap
As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, today we're going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from the...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2022
For our first official Massively Overthinking of 2022, we're following tradition: We're talking all about our hopes and fears for the genre in the...
Associate director of Ubisoft’s oft-delayed Skull and Bones departs the company
"What the heck is Skull and Bones," you cry. And we hear you! See, back before Ubisoft put out awful NFT nonsense no one wants,...
BioWare boss talks up SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith, new remote hiring policy
BioWare did not have the best 2021. It lost Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah at the end of 2020, followed by Jonathan Warner in...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2021
This is always one of the most depressing roundups I do around the turn of every year, and this year... well, we lost some...
Mortal Online 2 developer gets an Epic Games MegaGrant, confirms transition to Unreal Engine 5
The development of the beta build of Mortal Online 2 continues on with everything from player housing and fishing, and now further updates to...
Raven Software strike extends to its third week as Activision-Blizzard claims management is listening
January 3rd marked the third week during which the staff for Raven Software (responsible for several Call of Duty titles including Call of Duty: Warzone) was...
The Xbox x OPI nail polish collab includes in-game swag for Halo Infinite
True story, when this news blip crossed into our writers room, I giggled because I'd already bought some from the collection. Look, it's nail...
Snail Games fires back at Myth of Empires’ lawsuit with countersuits of its own
In the middle of last December, Myth of Empires studio Angela Game fired off a lawsuit against Snail Games and Studio Wildcard, demanding that...
China’s continued freeze on new gaming approvals sees 14,000 gaming firms in the country shut down
The fight against the so-called "spiritual opium" of gaming by the Chinese government presses on into the new year. Readers will recall that a...
RF Online developer unveils plans for a ‘battle coin server’ that will reward cryptocurrencies
It has been a significant length of time since we heard any major peeps out of RF Online, though the game itself has been...
