Video game unionization effort starts petition to remove Bobby Kotick from Activision-Blizzard
After calling for Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to resign on Wednesday, video game industry unionization group Game Workers Unite has now put together a...
Villagers & Heroes has been hacked – time to change your passwords
Bad news coming out of the adorable indie crossplatform MMORPG Villagers & Heroes as of last night: The game's been well and truly hacked.
"At...
The Daily Grind: How much does nostalgia drive your MMO play?
Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains that...
The Stream Team: Looking for love in all the wrong places in Secret World Legends
Just because it is Valentine's Day, you might be thinking that Massively OP's MJ will visit the Love Hotel in Secret World Legends. That...
Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...
MapleStory 2 kicks off Project New Leaf, proposes removal of controversial fairfight mechanic
It's always nice to see game devs listening to feedback from their communities, which is exactly what Nexon is doing with MapleStory 2's recently...
Champions Online introduces the Midnight archetype
If you were hoping that today would be the day that Champions Online surprised everyone with a huge new bundle of actual content, we're sorry...
Ubisoft hits its Q3 earnings targets while betting big on The Division 2
Here's the bad news from the latest Ubisoft earnings call: The company's profits are down year-over-year. But that's about it in terms of bad...
Torchlight Frontiers’ third closed alpha begins in March – with no more NDA
Torchlight Frontiers, the MMO that took our "most anticipated" award at the tail end of last year, is still plugging along in alpha -...
Deep-diving AdventureQuest 3D’s Artix Entertainment
Are you familiar with Artix Entertainment? You may not be. That's because this studio flies so far under the radar of drama that face-palming...
Korean MMO ROSE Online is shutting down permanently after lengthy maintenance mode
After about thirteen years of operation, one Korean MMORPG is calling it quits.
Gravity Corp's ROSE Online closed its doors earlier this week on February...
Tamriel Infinium: The many breeds of Elder Scrolls Online’s cat people, the iconic Khajiit
In the real world, I am not a cat person. Actually, I'm not a pet person. But in video games, I collect minipets, tame...
CCP’s CCPlease sees CCP appease pleas
One of the problems every MMO faces throughout its lifetime is that it can be difficult to figure out what small quality-of-life issues players...
Elder Scrolls Online: You could dive into Wrathstone’s dungeons, or you could just sleep on a bridge
ZeniMax has a new video up on social media today zeroing in on the dungeon content coming in Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone DLC later...
Vague Patch Notes: On play conditioning and the lecture of experience in MMOs
Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...
Valentine’s Day 2019 across the MMO universe
We've been covering the rollout of Valentine's Day events in MMOs and MMORPGs for the last couple of weeks, but today is heart day,...
Black Desert Online is in open beta on the Xbox One through February 17
If you like your MMOs on consoles, your spirits black, your combat active, and your classes gender-locked, you should give Black Desert Online a whirl...
Battle for divine favor in Crowfall’s Trials of the Gods campaign series
Now that Crowfall has had the time to do some campaign test-runs and make adjustments based on player feedback, thereby delaying sanctioned campaigns, the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the MMORPG without housing that would benefit the most from adding it?
Housing is a big and elaborate system to add into any game, and it's always an expensive system to include in terms of resources....
Yet more MMO Valentine’s Day events: AdventureQuest 3D, Defiance 2050, Skyforge, and Chronicles of Elyria
Love is in the air everywhere you look around. And what better way to celebrate love than through an event in a game centered...
