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One of the great advantages of making an MMO in an established IP is that there are all sorts of opportunities to draw in players via cross-promotional marketing. Star Trek Online has done a whole ton of this over its decade of life, as did Marvel Heroes (RIP). Remember when Marvel Heroes was tossing in characters and costumes from whatever...

There's a beta event going down next week in New World, don't you know, and it's coming with a new shiny client. Can you smell that new beta scent? Probably not. It's a bunch of computer data and it would probably smell like electricity. You shouldn't even be trying to smell it. Why are you trying to smell it?...

Starborne may well be a rising star in the MMORTS genre, causing at least one of our number here at Massively OP to become "totally and completely addicted" to its gameplay. But it definitely needs to up its promotion if it wants to become anything other than an extremely niche title, which is why it's a good thing that...

When we covered Pearl Abyss' second quarter financial report a few weeks ago, one of the things that stood out to me is that the company does not appear to be giving up on Shadow Arena, its battle royale effort that hit early access back in May. Here in the west, the game started off with 5000 concurrent players...

Gamigo has a slew of MMOs that don't get a lot of attention, especially since the Trion takeover, and one of those is the cutesy free-to-play anime MMO Grand Fantasia, which this week dropped a late summer update that teams players up with sprites to take on a terrifying plant queen in a new city and dungeon. "Hidden away behind...

MapleStory fans must be relieved to know that even after the closure of MapleStory 2, the franchise is still making money for Nexon hand over fist and is no danger whatsoever. In fact, it's about to get a large update in the form of Astral Blessings, which Nexon has been teasing all week. It's loaded with star-encrusted events that'll...

It's easy to think of "crunch" in game development being something of a more recent phenomenon as we've heard more about it. It's also easy to assume that your favorite games didn't involve any, or at least involved less. But a recent talk at Devcom Digital by the director of Diablo 2, David Brevik, shines a harsh light on...

While Riot Games seems to be shedding developers left and right these days, one good thing that's come out of this is the formation of several new game studios with ambitious and motivated teams. One such studio that just appeared on the scene is Odyssey Interactive, a new company that's aiming to build competitive games for mobile platforms. These former...

So much has happened in AQ3D in the short time Massively OP's MJ has been away from her computer. And while she's not about to grind any class to 100 anytime soon, she can go help save the village of DragonWatch, which is currently under siege by the Voidrakar. She's searching for he newly discovered threat to Lore --...

Bugs! Spiders! Creepy crawlies! If these pests invade your home, you have our full permission to exterminate with extreme prejudice. And if giant-sized versions of these insects crawl into Champions Online, you have an obligation to save the world by smooshing them with every power at your disposal. Champions Online is in such need of pest control, as the game...