New Ultima Online book gathers developer and player interviews to document oral history
Old-school MMORPG players, heads-up for you: If you're a fan of Ultima Online or wanted to hear more about the seminal MMORPG after reading...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 177: ArenaNet A-bomb
Justin and Bree discuss the Guild Wars 2 debacle, Trove, The Sims 3, Camelot Unchained, Warframe, Shroud of the Avatar, Temtem, Final Fantasy XIV, Defiance 2050, and Trion's Marvel Heroes promo, plus a mailbag entry on looter shooters as the future of MMORPGs.
Game Workers Unite condemns ArenaNet for Guild Wars 2 developer firings
Grassroots advocacy group Game Workers Unite posted a statement on Pricegate today, "emphatically denouncing" ArenaNet for firing Guild Wars 2's Jessica Price and Peter...
Guild Wars 2’s roller beetle gets an armadillo upgrade
Roller beetles are still the latest hotness in Guild Wars 2, but now players have a greater choice of style while ripping up the...
Hearthstone unleashes mad science with The Boomsday Project expansion
Anyone notice how Hearthstone seems to have the best art team and the biggest sense of humor of the entire Blizzard studio? It certainly...
The ESA claims crunch issues in the industry have been declining over the past decade
Crunch - the act of putting in way too much overtime to get a video game completed and out the door - is a...
LawBreakers helped kill The Amazing Eternals during testing
The death of The Amazing Eternals partway through its testing was a shock for numerous fans, all of whom were looking forward to the...
IGDA calls for transparent guidelines on game studio social media and harassment following Guild Wars 2 dust-up
Regardless of who you believe had the right and wrong of the ArenaNet Twitter fiasco last week, game developers have expressed concern over the...
Crowfall studio ArtCraft spins off new company to license its MMORPG-oriented Artisan Engine
Well now things just got interesting over in the land of Kickstarted Crowfall. ArtCraft announced this morning that it's spinning off a "new division" called...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wolfhunter DLC enters player testing as the free-play event begins
We're barreling down a pretty short road toward Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC. As announced just a month ago at E3, Wolfhunter is indeed...
EVE Online launches the Dawn of Liberation event along with its July update today
EVE Online has a decent-size release up this month - today, in fact, as it's already live. Notably, today's update tweaks Abyss looot drops...
Defiance 2050 officially launches as a free-to-play reboot on PC and console today
Trion has a big launch on its hands today as it pushes Defiance 2050 out of beta into a live state on PC and both...
Guild Wars 2 pushes out underwater balance patch while players cross over 119,431 years /played
Just a heads up that Guild Wars 2 is putting out a small patch today to balance a few issues in the game: "Since...
The Stream Team: Trove celebrates three years!
It may be a Monday night, but it's a party night! Trove turned three years old today and Massively OP's MJ is ready to...
Slide along on a sweet snail in Neverwinter’s summer festival starting Thursday
No matter which coast of the US you're on right now, you're probably already sick of summer thanks to the heatwaves that have been...
Skyforge details the coming changes to PvP with new stats
There's been a bit of a problem with the balance of PvP in Skyforge. The developers want players to be rewarded for accomplishments in...
Overwatch players raised almost $13M to fight breast cancer in ‘Pink Mercy’ campaign
Remember last spring when Blizzard ran that big "Pink Mercy" charity campaign in Overwatch? The company's run the numbers, and it turns out Overwatch...
Worlds Adrift works on getting new audio for characters getting injured (and burping)
The little things make a big difference sometimes. You don't necessarily need your character to mutter "ow" in reaction to falling a few hundred...
EVE Online kicks off a new recruitment program on July 11
More pilots are needed in EVE Online. The game has another patch arriving tomorrow, but it's going to wait another day to introduce a...
New Dawn, a survival sandbox set in the 1800s, has launched into Steam early access
New Dawn - not to be confused with Darkfall New Dawn or Osiris New Dawn or Star Trek Online's New Dawn - is hitting...
