Rumors

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SWTOR teases its new expansion, Cartel Market updates, and more coming by year’s end

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With all the April Fool's updates and misinformation that were flying around this weekend, it was a little difficult to tell what was a...

Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR prank that revealed so much about the hungry fanbase

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With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...

Leaderboard: Do you speculate on WoW Tokens or other legal MMO RMT currency?

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Is Call of Duty the next Activision franchise to migrate to Battlenet? Very likely. As Eurogamer broke earlier this month, players are now able...

Another writer allegedly leaves BioWare – what on earth is going on with Anthem?

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Surfacing at the tail end of last week was the news that multiple former BioWare devs who'd all contributed heavily to Star Wars The...

Ubisoft and Massive are building The Division 2

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Did you see this one coming? Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are apparently working on a sequel to The Division. The news comes via what appears...
SHOOOT

Rumor: H1Z1 may finally be launching; the ‘royalty showdown’ begins today

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Yesterday, in our report on H1Z1's plummeting player numbers since the onslaught from PUBG and Fortnite, we mentioned that the game's launch, once planned...

Rumor: An Overwatch League team may have finally picked up Geguri [Updated: Yep]

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E-sports blog Dbltap is reporting that Kim "Geguri" Se-yeon told her Twitch following that she has accepted an offer to play on a foreign...

PUBG: PC’s anti-cheat measures, Xbox One damage tweaks, and Microsoft acquisition rumors

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Patchy patch patch! It's patch day for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' test server. On PC, Bluehole says it's still working on the ongoing anti-cheat measures it's...
All over again.

Another rumored New World trailer surfaces with hints about the game’s premise

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Amazon's New World is a game that's captured quite a bit of rumor and speculation lately, and here's a fresh video to throw more...
Catching up!

Elder Scrolls Online datamining reveals possible expansion prologue

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Ready to head to new lands in Tamriel? A dataminer discovered some evidence that seems to confirm the long-running rumor about the location of the...

Amazon’s New World video possibly leaked, New World Amazon page has vanished

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A short, anonymous video posted to the New World subreddit has the community buzzing that this might be an authentic leak from the secretive...
Not like that, no.

Rumor: Blizzard’s next title involves vehicles and may be an Overwatch spinoff

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There's a title under development at Blizzard that's been hiring for a while now, but no one actually knows what it is. So when...

Survivalbox roundup: CSGO’s survival mode, Astroneer’s alpha, Osiris New Dawn’s Zer, and ARK’s Ragnarok

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Welcome back to another fast look at what the survivalboxes are up to! We've got tidbits from ARK, CSGO, Astroneer, and Osiris: New Dawn. First...

RIP Marvel Heroes

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It's gone, gang, and I'm so sorry. Following the disastrous silences and accusations that unfolded over October and November, Marvel announced that it had terminated...

Gazillion is dead and Marvel Heroes is shutting down Friday, NOT at the end of the year

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Massively OP has received a credible tip from a former Gazillion employee who told us under condition of anonymity that Marvel Heroes will be...
Awesome. Very impressive. Great job.

EA disables all Star Wars Battlefront 2 microtransaction crud – for now

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Whenever you see a studio call fans "passionate," it's almost always shorthand for "rioting with pitchforks and torches." Guess what Star Wars Battlefront 2's...

Disney has canceled Marvel Heroes, Marvel has ended its relationship with Gazillion

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We can now confirm this as real, following a statement made by a Marvel representative to Massively OP. We're updating below. According to Kotaku, Disney...

Marvel Heroes’ update silence has stretched to four weeks; here are the latest developments

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I'm afraid we still can't say that Marvel Heroes is going to be OK, as we've now gone an entire month since the last...

PWE confirms Motiga layoffs and Runic Games closure, but MOBA Gigantic will stay up

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Last night, we reported on multiple employees and former employees' allusions to the closure of Motiga Games, the studio behind MOBA Gigantic. "Today marks the...

Marvel Heroes has now missed three weekly updates in a row as Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters

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It's now been two weeks since we've had any word on the state of Marvel Heroes, as today marks the third missed Friday update in...