Aiming for the planet.

See what it’s like landing on a planet in Elite: Dangerous with Google Cardboard

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People have the time to start playing around with their holiday gifts now, but what's the best use of those gifts? More apropos, is it worth getting your new little Google Cardboard stuff all set up and ready to land on planets in Elite: Dangerous? What does that even look like? Wonder no more; there's a video just beneath...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR predictions for 2016

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“Difficult to see. Always in motion the future is,” Yoda explained to Luke Skywalker on Dagobah when the boy had a vision of his friends in Cloud City. So when I make predictions for the future of Star Wars: The Old Republic, I know that I am trying to predict something that even the developers might not know. When...

Bless Online to deliver 2016 game plan in January

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Korean website Inven reports today that Bless Online is due for an infodump early in the new year. Neowiz Games will announce its MMORPG 'Bless' public service schedule. Neowiz Games is coming Held January 15, Samseong-dong, the "Bless the public service briefing' at COEX, and will disclose to a variety of information, including the public service schedule. Among the topics to be covered will...

Crowfall’s comic reveals continue

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"Nothing is left of the man I was. There is only the scavenger, the warrior, and the oath he took. Some words cannot be unspoken." This is the quote from the latest Crowfall comic panel reveals, in which a giant warrior grouses about his past decisions. Why are we paying attention to a comic? Because ArtCraft has said that all...

Tree of Savior’s hairstyles cost more in-game than in real life

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Bugs, shaky servers, and controversial cash shop prices are plaguing Tree of Savior's South Korean launch this week. According to commenters, the release of Tree of Savior was rushed and didn't include fixes for many issues that trouble the game. To add insult to injury, apparently the publisher instituted expensive cash shop items that flipped microtransactions over into macrotransaction territory....

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for a terrible computer?

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If you're stuck away from home with family over the holidays, you might find yourself jonesing for an MMO that will run and run well on a lower-end rig. Or maybe that's just me! I'd have thought a game like Trove or Cube World would be my best bet, but both are surprisingly rough on an old machine -- turns out...

Not So Massively: Top 10 most surprising NSM stories of 2015

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Back in 2011, our former corporate overlords at Massively-of-old noticed that games like League of Legends were getting pretty damn popular and asked us to work them into the site. In order to incorporate them into an MMO blog without disrupting the existing MMO news coverage, we decided to put all of the news on games that may not fit the...

The Stream Team: Doing the Marvel Heroes Danger Room

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Marvel Heroes has gone and done it now: MassivelyOPs' MJ just can't stop singing "I went to the Danger Room!" Maybe once she finally runs through this new training facility, the earworm will crawl out of her head and leave her in peace -- or at least infiltrate someone else's brain. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. to get...

Massively OP’s 2015 Blooper Awards: Most Nonsensical MMO Title

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most Nonsensical MMO Title. And the winner is... Asker Online Actual team conversation from the day we discussed this award: Bree: What does asker even mean? Justin: I don't know, why don't you ASKER. And that's how this game won the blooper award. It does look really pretty, though. Want to nominate another winner? Let us know...
Why do you build me up, Buttercup, baby, just to let me down and mess me around?

NCsoft is hiring for a new shooter project

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If you were kind of sad when NCsoft shut down development on Project HON back in March, today's news is going to hit you one of two ways. You could be happy that the company is still looking into making a shooter, as evidenced by the fact that the company is hiring for something only referred to as an...