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Wondering what's going on with Project Genom? You're not the only one, as the most recent development dispatch makes it clear that the team was well aware of how silent the team has been. But there was a good reason for that silence: The game is getting a full open world, which meant that a lot of locations had...

When I was a kid, it was generally accepted that action figures looked nothing like their cartoon counterpart besides being a vaguely human-shaped blob. We've come a long way since then, as the modern geek expects high fidelity and quality on his or her statues and replicas. This did not happen with a new League of Legends statue of the...

Mytheon, a Greek mythology-themed MMO developed by Petroglyph, had an unusually short run as a live game, lasting only from March through July of 2011 before being shut down due to an insufficient playerbase. Now it's back -- and with a new business model. Petroglyph has retooled the game and put it on Steam as a buy-to-play title (it's currently...

If you could live in an MMO, would you? What would you do? One character in a new "reality show" web series is doing just that -- and loving it. Realms of Fightinge is about a real-world "professional slacker" named Colin who just so happens to live in an MMO. The web series follows Colin and his companions as they seek...

Trove is no longer a harmonious place for jaunty voxels. If you haven't heard the news, Trion Worlds added PvP into the game with a recent patch, giving players the option to duke it out in custom-built arenas. Trove's PvP includes a few additional systems for the game, including a new path of progression through battle levels, special loot, and a capture-the-flag mode....

How do you get better at things in Crowfall? Obviously, there's personal practice, but in the more abstract sense, there are the game's skill trees. Skill trees are how characters train up to improve statistics, and the latest article on the official site previews the fine details of the system as it currently stands. The short version is that skills are...

Landmark's been eerily quiet since Halloween, but good news, everyone: The game's just gotten a new holiday-themed update. Senior Producer Terry Michaels told forumgoers that this morning's patch will add new props to the voxelbox, including ornaments, wreaths, garlands, trees, snowmen, gramophones, and chests. The team has also fixed come client bugs, opened up a "Winter Holiday Party Zone," and handed...

I’ve never had a chance to do an annual "report card" like this for Elder Scrolls Online because I left the game by the time that the year-end report card came around last year. I'm glad to be an ESO player again for this 2015 edition, in which I will focus mostly on the additions to the game made this year. When appropriate, I might...

Elite: Dangerous is about to get a lot bigger with the launch of Horizons next Tuesday. Frontier's David Braben announced the date on the official game forums earlier today: We have worked very hard to ensure forward & backward compatibility so that all players of both seasons can play in the same galaxy together. After every Elite Dangerous release we have...

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the most improved MMO of 2015. All MMOs, regardless of release date, were eligible for this award, provided they made improvements this year. Last year's award, you'll recall, went to Final Fantasy XIV. Don't forget to cast your own vote in the just-for-fun reader poll at the very end. The Massively OP staff pick...