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You wouldn't routinely consider checking a weather report for flying in space, but EVE Online players should probably consider doing precisely that when Metaliminal Storms arrive to the space sandbox, which are described as "chaotic storms of abyssal energy" that will "move around nullsec space slowly like hurricanes." The eye of these storms will always originate in nullsec space, but...

Even as you slumber, the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands beta continues to toil away in its preparation for the great day of reckoning that will soon come to all. All subscribers, that is. The beta was wiped yesterday to bring it up to the latest build, which seems to have broken a few things such as access to certain...

I've learned something new when putting this story together: There's apparently a Steam for in-testing and in-development games with a focus on gathering player feedback to give to devs. This platform is where Fractured now finds itself as it seeks to fill up its current alpha build with more players. The platform in question is called G.Round, which describes itself...

Usually rogue servers and game emulators like to stay on the down low as to not draw any unwanted attention from the legal owners -- and their lawyers -- of those titles. But in the case of 2-D MMO shooter Infantry Online, the community operators have drafted a letter to ask for the help of the company that once...

This week we've been following Bloomberg's reports on Blizzard employees' attempts to secure pay and equitable pay for the gaming industry. Early in the week, staff were circulating a spreadsheet of their wages and raises, telling journalists tales of stories of skipping meals and living on coffee and oatmeal and postponing starting families because of the poor pay from...

Alpha 3.10 is now live in Star Citizen, bringing with it a whole lot of important changes. Chief among them is the new flight model, which brings atmospheric effects, limited thruster jerk (aka the measure of how quickly a ship's acceleration changes, meaning heavy ships now feel heavier as thrusters don't immediately respond), and individual ship aerodynamic characteristics to...

You know, we talk about crafting a lot here on Massively OP, but gathering doesn't get nearly as much love, and yet pretty much every game with crafting has that too. I've been doing a lot of it lately in Lord of the Rings Online, circling through my loops through zones harvesting ore and wood, occasionally stopping at a...

With the free access to DDO's Ravenloft quests going away at the end of August, Massively OP's MJ is aiming to get some of those quest lines in. And her first foray will be Into the Mists, a quest involving getting lost in a dark and forbidding forest. Nothing to worry about, right? Tune in live at 8:00 p.m....

Crucible has been one of online gaming's punching bags of the summer, what with Amazon's decision to pull the once-launched title back into closed beta for reworking after players just didn't connect with it. In fact, last week, the game delayed its next round of testing a pinch more thanks to bugs. Well, that update for this leg of testing...

Yesterday, we covered Bloomberg's report on how Blizzard employees were circulating a spreadsheet of their wages and raises in an effort to determine whether Blizzard had gone far enough with its promises to dispense fair pay, particularly in light of increased duties following the 2019 layoffs. As we noted, employees told stories of skipping meals and living on coffee...