The best Massively OP MMORPG streams of 2015
The number of games our wee little Stream Team covers in the span of a year is staggering. If you ever wanted to know what an MMORPG looks like and how it plays before you shell out money or download a mega-client, the Stream Team is your best bet.
We've put together some of our favorite streams from the year,...
The9’s CEO is throwing over a million bucks at Chinese Firefall players
It's kind of a nail-biting time to be looking in from the outside when it comes to Red 5 Studios and Firefall. The past few big stories have centered on not patches or content but on the fact that dev pay was delayed over Christmas (which the company says has now been rectified). But it's happy times for the game over...
EverQuesting: EverQuest, EverQuest II, Landmark, and EverQuest Next in 2015
When it comes to the EverQuest franchise, looking back at 2015 is a much different experience than looking back at 2014 was. That previous year ended on such a high note of hope and anticipation; players (including me) were excited about what was to come. This year, however, is closing out with an air of melancholy, apprehension, and --...
Final Fantasy XIV welcomes players to another year of updates
It's sometimes difficult to believe that Final Fantasy XIV has been running for five years now in one form or another. A new letter from producer and director Naoki Yoshida notes that by one metric, the game has already had a significant lifespan as an MMO, but looked at as a whole it's only a couple of years old....
First impressions of Black Desert’s closed beta test: Classes, combat, and mechanics
Over the course of my first day in Black Desert, I did a lot of the things you'd expect from the first day in a new MMO: I killed some imps, couriered some items for spectacularly lazy NPCs, and learned a few skills. But I also spent a much larger amount of time doing things that might seem a...
WoW Factor: The view from outside the Legion alpha test
I've been paying rapt attention to the ongoing-though-paused World of Warcraft Legion alpha tests  because said tests are looking good. That's a positive. Whilst the actual decisions being made about testing and the state of the live game don't earn a lot of praise from me, what we've seen of the expansion that Legion is becoming makes me feel very positive....
The Stream Team: ARK: Survival Evolved drops the ball (and kangaroos) for 2016
If you haven't had enough New Year's ball dropping yet, join MassivelyOP's MJ in ARK for another! The devs have given survivors a massive orb that will descend from the sky to bring joy and hope and gifts to all on the island (or maybe utter destruction). It touches down at noon, so tune in live at 11:00 a.m....
Activision Blizzard buys e-sports company assets for $46M
Does Activision Blizzard see the business world as one big garage sale from which to cherry-pick deals? It certainly seems so, as the company has snapped up another acquisition for its portfolio: much of the assets of Major League Gaming.
Major League Gaming was an e-sports company, and we say "was" because it recently went out of business. MLG's board of...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG without a cash shop?
During any online discussion about MMORPG payment models, someone will inevitably lament that subscriptions are better because they don't nickel-and-dime you with a cash shop. Someone else will then point out that the vast majority of subscription games that are left in the genre do indeed have cash shops. There was a time when a sparklepony was a rare...
The Stream Team: Ending the year in The Secret World’s Issue #13
It's been really hard for MassivelyOP's MJ to resist diving into The Secret World's Issue #13 so she could share it with you all, but she did it. (Of course she had Krampus and the Christmas events to keep her distracted!) And now she can finally follow the Trail of Shadows to see where it leads. Join us live...
