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Usually when I hear "professional e-sports tournament" I tune out, mostly because three of those words hold no personal interest or applicability. However, it might behoove the non-professional among us to check out War Thunder's Thunder League, as fans can win prizes as well as the teams participating. Viewers of every tournament stream have a chance to win one of...

Having written about it recently, I found myself thinking that it might not even matter if Phantasy Star Online 2 even comes out in North America. Seriously, it's been out for three years now with no sign of localization. If it came out tomorrow, would anyone care any longer? Would people just write it off as yesterday's jam? It's not...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, The Repopulation suspended its test servers thanks to the HeroEngine fiasco, though Above & Beyond says it is working on a solution and isn't giving up. Meanwhile, Dogma: Eternal Night's Kickstarter came to a close unfulfilled, Project Gorgon was delayed on Steam, and Camelot Unchained delivered a massive crafting reveal and interview for the...

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most Predictable MMO Delay. And the winner is... The Division The Division was unveiled at E3 in 2013. In January of 2014, an anonymous Ubisoft employee said the planned 2014 launch date of The Division was "laughable," so the delay to 2015 wasn't unexpected. In May 2015, the delay to Q1 2016 wasn't...

MassivelyOP's MJ can't help it: She loves holiday festivals! And LOTRO's Yule festival is full of fun winter activities that reward participants with tokens to buy housing items and mounts. Do you want to build a snowman? Or maybe star in a play? How about try to out-eat a Hobbit? MJ will do all this and more when she...

This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2016. Two stories dominated July 2015. After Daybreak CEO John Smedley called out a Lizard Squad e-thug convicted of thousands of crimes -- including the crime of making a terrorist threat on a plane Smed was...

Vampires, blood, and underworld horror weren't enough to propel Dogma: Eternal Night to its Kickstarter campaign goal. The title fell well short of its $100,000 goal, racking up a little over $35,000 from 435 backers over the past month. Prelude Games Factory vowed to keep working on the project, saying that it would be asking for donations on its own...

He's making a list, Shredding it twice, Gonna kill all whether naughty or nice! Raptor Claus is coming to ARK. He sees you when you're sleeping, He knows when you're awake, He'll hunt you if you're bad or good So you better run fast for goodness sakes! Wait, wait wait! MassivelyOP's MJ doesn't want you to fall prey to such erroneous typecasting: Raptor Claus is actually a...

MMO sequels are funny animals. Sequels (along with prequels and "reimaginings") are ingrained into the entertainment industry so deep that it makes sense that MMO studios would follow suit. And yet these types of games -- with their ever-growing nature and heavy involvement with loyal playerbases -- are not always conducive to such projects. More often than not, a...

Do you think this is a game? Do you think this is a game? This is real life, people. This is important. It's important to let people know that sometimes the things you think are just games are actually super important and the things that people think are not games are totally games. Also, it's important to argue over...