Steam’s global version appears to have been blocked in China
It would seem that the Chinese government's continued efforts to bring the games industry to heel has extended to the global version of the...
Massively on the Go: The latest Pokemon Go dev diary is just more marketing speak
Pokemon Go’s second dev diary is out, and it's at least as disappointing as the first. Niantic has not been known for great communication and continues...
Everything we learned about PWE’s and Cryptic’s MMOs thanks to the Embracer buyout
Earlier this week, we covered the news that Perfect World's North American branch, and by extension its publishing branch and Cryptic Studios, had been...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2021
Every year, we give a nod to the biggest MMO story, but in 365 days, a whole lot more happened than just one narrative....
CCP Games CEO voices support for NFTs and play-to-earn schemes but won’t link EVE Online to a blockchain
If you're an EVE Online fan, you might have been a bit concerned that the internet spaceship sandbox started dipping its toes into the...
Fallen Earth contemplates using NFTs to fund development
The winner of Massively OP's Biggest MMO Surprise of 2021 has another potential shocker up its sleeve -- and this time it's none too...
Kickstarted MMO Legends of Aria and its studio just got bought out by an NFT metaverse games company
Time to add another game to the acquisition heap this week: Blue Monster Games has apparently purchased Citadel Studios and Legends of Aria, along...
Book of Travels just had serious layoffs as Might and Delight cuts team from 35 to 10
The end-of-the-year hits just keep coming, and I mean the bad kind: Book of Travels studio Might and Delight just announced a round of...
Gamers, along with everyone else, are apparently avoiding Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon NFTs
If this blossoming world of cryptocurrency and NFTs is making you long for a simpler and less stupid era of gaming history, you're not...
PWE and Cryptic have been bought out by Gearbox’s Embracer Group
We keep joking that the week before Christmas is basically the Friday night of burying last-minute news, and it keeps on proving us right....
Fractured and Gamigo reps discuss publishing, refunds, IP ownership, and the possibility of a console launch
As we've been covering, Kickstarted MMORPG Fractured - now Fractured Online - announced that it's being supported and published by Gamigo, and the response...
Bungie’s head of HR steps down and adds her own tale of abuse as more devs come forward about mistreatment
Destiny 2 developer Bungie was cast under an all too familiar spotlight in a report from IGN that detailed past instances of crunch, sexism,...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2021
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's intermittent check-in on all the crowdfunding MMOs in our genre. You might have noticed...
Kickstarter MMORPG Crowfall was just acquired by Mythgard publisher Monumental
So, who had "Crowfall gets bought out" on the ol' end-of-the-year bingo card? Did you also have "and the announcement gets made at 7:20...
Betawatch: Noah’s Heart opens up beta testing next week
Do you remember Noah's Heart? Probably not; the last we heard about it was that the game was going to be entering beta testing over...
CD Projekt Red agrees to a $1.85M settlement to close out Cyberpunk 2077 investor lawsuit
It looks like the end of 2021 is also signaling the end of CD Projekt Red's legal kerfuffle with its investors over Cyberpunk 2077....
Activision-Blizzard published its representation data, admitting it has ‘a lot of work to do’
Activision-Blizzard Chief Operating Officer Daniel Alegre sent 'round a press release this week attempting to send a strong signal to the studio's workforce that...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
Peter Molyneux’s multiplayer ‘blockchain business sim’ Legacy sells $53M in land NFTs before release
If you feel strongly about another game making money off of concepts of internet spaceships, then you might have some feelings about what Peter...
Fractured Online’s CEO addresses Gamigo publishing deal, promising unchanged design and monetization
Yesterday, when we covered the news that Gamigo was taking over the publishing of Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured, we noted that the Fractured team...
