Betawatch: These are the dates of our lives (December 2, 2016)
I never wanted to be writing about betas for a living, you know. I wanted to be a novelist (once I realized that "combination...
Guild Wars 2 works player characters into official lore
Have you been following the tenacious adventures of Vikki and her pet Momo? This ongoing story saga has played out on Guild Wars 2's...
DC Universe Online brings out new holiday outfits and penguins for December
It's time for the holidays in DC Universe Online once again, and that means that a supervillain is going to try to ruin the...
Classic vampire MMO Dark Eden arrives on Steam
After looking for Steam greenlight approval earlier this year, Dark Eden has clinched it and arrived to dwell on the digital platform as one...
That time when Riders of Icarus added a level 50 dungeon to a level 40 game
Here's a fun experiment that Riders of Icarus recently performed: Insert a level 50 dungeon with highly desirable rewards into a game with a...
Rumor: Daybreak’s Russell Shanks is out, Columbus Nova exec is in
Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob has dug up what appears to be juicy Daybreak news. According to entries on Linkedin and Wikipedia,...
Path of Exile: Breach is launching today – right now, actually
Going live today -- right as this post is published, in fact, if all goes well -- is the latest content addition to MMOARPG...
Star Citizen begins testing 2.6 alpha, aims to release it on December 16
In this week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse, Sandi Gardiner is joined by Technical Director Sean Tracy to issue the latest big...
A Parent’s Guide to Video Games: Condensing ‘The Video Game Debate’
Remember The Video Game Debate? The game research book edited by Thorsten Quandt and Rachel Kowert, the latter of whom we've been covering here since Massively-that-was? Good....
WoW Factor: Looking forward to World of Warcraft 7.2
It's been a little while, friends, but that happens. Last time I was making bets about what we'd see for World of Warcraft at...
Elder Scrolls teases big weekend sale with fresh One Tamriel trailer
Bethsoft released a brand-new trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online last night at The Game Awards, this one talking up One Tamriel's launch and...
SWTOR Knights of the Eternal Throne launches today; we chat with BioWare
Last year, the developers of Star Wars the Old Republic changed the focus of the game. Instead of continuing to make Knights of the Old...
Camelot Unchained picks up new staffers, explains big battles
This month's Camelot Unchained newsletter has arrived, and it's packed -- official word count: 7886. On the staffing front, which is net good news,...
Nature cops who punch kraken: Catching up with Project Gorgon’s Eric Heimburg
As many of you are well aware, we here at Massively OP are pretty fascinated with the work being done by MMO industry veterans...
World of Warcraft’s secondary stats are dropping in power; here’s why
Players who log on to World of Warcraft's 7.1.5 test realm will no doubt have already noticed that secondary stats just aren't what they...
Black Desert Korea teases this month’s Dark Knight class launch
There are good points and bad about getting imports from overseas, but one of the good, at least from my perspective, is that we...
Warframe’s War Within is coming to consoles this month
It's easy to imagine that Warframe's console crowd has to be downright antsy over the wait to play The War Within as weeks go...
The Daily Grind: Will players always trump NPCs as MMO PvP adversaries?
Prolific MOP commenter Sally Bowls posted a note last week that stood out to me as something we should all be seriously considering. Most...
Massively Overthinking: FOMO and time-limited events in MMORPGs
Earlier this week, Daybreak told players it wanted to get back to time-limited events in DC Universe Online. "Events make logging in every day...
The Stream Team: Checking out LOTRO’s chicken ball
Have you ever played chicken ball? Yes -- you heard that right. Chicken ball. LOTRO has a special sport called Hobnanigans that is all...
