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It's been said before and will be said again a few more times before it's no longer true: Fans of Daybreak games are a bit jittery at the moment. The company's sudden shift away from Sony and subsequent layoffs and upheaval have not inspired confidence. That jittery nervousness is what president John Smedley has been addressing, most recently with...

So World of Warcraft lost three million subs in the wake of Warlords of Draenor, bringing it back down to right about where it was before it began the Draenor ramp up -- not quite to its published low point after Mists of Pandaria, but damn close. I suppose it's not a surprise; Blizzard's languorous content pace since the...

So close, and yet so far! Part of The Secret World's Issue #10 remains unfinished for Massively OP's MJ; after completing the clubhouse, she made it only as far as the door of the third safehouse. Getting past all those booby traps is going to be tricky, but she's got Justin with her to help navigate them. Join us...

This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Kickstarter donor Antonia "Toni" Phillips aka ToniLyran, who's hit on a sore point with our writers, it seems: In indie game development, we are seeing a resurgence of games with "real consequences." With the coming of Crowfall, do you think that we will start to see a trend back to MMO's with real...

If you're curious about building your own airship in indie sandbox MMO Worlds Adrift, look no further than the latest dev blog. You'll need to find a good spot for a ship yard and then construct your hull frame. After that you'll build a crafting station which will in turn produce ship parts. These parts are added to the...

If you've got an interest in EVE Online's upcoming changes to nullsec and sovereignty mechanics, and you've got a lot of time, you'll probably want to peruse CCP's latest dev blog. It's a lengthy one, and it covers everything from the sov capture system and the Entosis Link mechanic to activity defense multipliers, vulnerability, and time zone mechanics. CCP also...

Dictionary.com has granted a bit of legitimacy to a trio of gaming terms. E-sports, permadeath, and completionist were among the latest batch of words enshrined in the online reference site's ever-growing lexicon. The site relies on "research in traditional publications, as well as technology like corpus research. In our case, we are currently using a corpus that has over 19...

Albion is gearing up for its summer alpha, and one of the new features on display during the test will be a landscape redesign. "The layout, vegetation, and overall look of a region will change dramatically depending on what resources can be found in it," the dev team explains. Areas include grasslands and deadlands, with "large tasty-looking apples" populating the...

If you've been visiting any GTA V or GTA Online forums this week, you've surely heard about the modding brouhaha that cropped up with the last patch. If you haven't heard, well, a significant chunk of fans have convinced themselves that Rockstar is targeting modders for extermination, which would sort of suck since it's reasonable to assume that most people buying...

Good news, Blizzard fans! Kael'thas Sunstrider has been confirmed as the next hero being added to Heroes of the Storm. Now you can entertain your teammates in chat by insisting that everything bad in a match - dying once, dying seven times, losing the match, being banned for profanity - is merely a setback. Also you can presumably enjoy...