Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the burgeoning gacha gaming industry
In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was...
Survivalbox Osiris New Dawn, now back on Steam, is testing a new planet and space station realism
Osiris New Dawn has been one of the more puzzling development stories we've covered over the last few years, owing almost entirely to the...
Tribes 3 Rivals heads into de facto maintenance mode as developers offer compensation
There's bad but perhaps not unexpected news for Tribes 3 Rivals players today as developer Prophecy Games has put out a rather flatly titled...
The Stream Team: Peeking in to the tiny battle royale brawler Battle Crush
MOP's Chris is once again taking his stream time to check out something new! Today, it's Battle Crush, the sometimes mythological team-based battle royale...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s July spread is basically just marking time until Go Fest
It's not particularly surprising that, once again, Pokemon Go isn't really sharing a lot of details about what's in store for the month of...
Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
Massively Overthinking: How ‘massively multiplayer’ do we expect MMORPGs to be?
Earlier in June on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering the age-old question of what, exactly, constitutes an MMO....
Myth of Empires releases its Greek-themed DLC, opens new servers, and begins new limited-time events
Today is a big day for Myth of Empires, or at least it hopes it will be a profitable one, as the game's newest...
MOBA-like battle royale Battle Crush begins its free-to-play early access to scathing Steam reviews
What do you get when you take shrunken mythological heroes as well as a couple of random mascots and pit them against one another...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming goes solo mining in Deep Rock Galactic
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
Once Human claims to have taken the ‘Triple Crown’ on Steam with wishlist numbers and demo players
Can you win at being on Steam? If you ask NetEase, the answer is not only "yes," but it's also followed up with, "and...
Diablo Immortal’s latest update preps Season 28 and merges a crapton of servers
Last night - or early this morning, depending on where on the planet you're standing - Blizzard and NetEase dropped Diablo Immortal's next big...
Tower of Fantasy showcases its next new simulacrum arriving July 2
As with most news stories about Tower of Fantasy, we're going to be referencing a lot of names of people and organizations that will...
Sand studio explains the extraction shooter’s premise in a new official post
Do you greatly enjoy sand's relative coarseness, its rough texture, and its ability to get everywhere? This is the correct way of thinking! No...
The Stream Team: Bunny-based roguelike raiding in Rabbit & Steel
MOP's Chris and his best friend had such a good time in Rabbit & Steel last time that they're back at this raiding-centric roguelike...
First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox
Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...
Victorian survivalbox Nightingale says its next big update will take a while to get here
In a new developer video, Nightingale studio Inflexion Games refuted the opinion that the studio is scaling down its development of the Victorian survival...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with The First Descendant, plus a chat with the Nexon devs
You thought our Summer Game Fest coverage was over, didn't you? Well, in all fairness, Nexon not only brought The First Descendant to SGF but provided...
Palia’s Bloomin’ Bounties patch gives players loot and cheevos for partying up
Against all odds, Palia and its slimmed-down development team are pushing forward to flesh out the cozy mini-MMO, as the Bloomin' Bounties patch rolls...
Pokemon Company’s threat of potential legal action against Palworld appears to have fizzled out
During the height of Palworld's popularity, gamers threw a lot of accusations in the direction of developer Pocket Pair, claiming plagiarism of Pokemon's designs...
