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Exclusive: MMORPG Astellia Online deep-dives its Warrior and Scholar classes
Korean-born Astellia has been hovering on the horizon for the last few years of its development as Barunson E&A - the majority owner of...
SMITE’s Darkness Falls update buffs new player experience, reworks assault map
It's lights out in SMITE as its Darkness Falls update has gone live, bringing with it some changes to the new player experience, a...
The Stream Team: A fifth birthday bash for SMITE
Massively OP's MJ may not have been able to commemorate SMITE's fifth anniversary yesterday, but that doesn't mean she won't celebrate. She's just extending...
The MOP Up: Aion’s cherry blossoms signal the arrival of spring
The Cherry Blossom Festival is in full bloom over at Aion Europe, with this spring festival offering a hero trial, a "topsy-turvy" laboratory, a...
The MOP Up: MapleStory goes to the arcade
If you're playing MapleStory, chances are that you're not too prim and proper to enjoy some goofy fun. So pop in a quarter and...
Massively Uplifting: Black Desert’s lantern memorial, a gift of sight in Wizard101
Gamers get a bad rap. Studios are seen as heartless villains. Mainstream media is quick to demonize us, and we can be quick to...
Kotaku exposes the creeps of game streaming, plus the update on Elvine you didn’t want
At the beginning of the month, we were all horrified to cover the news that a Twitch streamer and (now former) Hi-Rez employee, Thomas...
SMITE is now available on Nintendo Switch – and now it’s playable for free
This one is going to be real simple. You know what SMITE is, right? It's a MOBA featuring a bunch of deities and a...
Not So Massively: SMITE’s 6.1 update, RUST minicopters, World War Z’s launch date, and Battlerite’s F2P trailer
The Not So Massively games are piling up, so let's knock 'em out real quick here with the return of our old NSM roundup,...
A Hi-Rez staffer has been arrested for alleged solicitation of sex with a minor in major sting op
Didn't expect to be catching this post tonight: Apparently a Hi-Rez employee has been arrested along with 20 other men accused of soliciting sex...
SMITE launches early access closed beta on the Switch ahead of planned full cross-progression
The 30 million people who've played SMITE on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 4 are welcoming a whole new generation of Nintendo Switch gamers as...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Overwatch if it had a PvE or co-op mode?
Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...
Stewart Chisam will replace Erez Goren as CEO of SMITE company Hi-Rez Studios
Multiplayer online game company Hi-Rez Studios is seeing a leadership shuffle this week, as the man who's been CEO for 14 years is stepping...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s Battle at the Binary Stars heats up
Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back into...
The MOP Up: TERA’s Valkyrie goes to console while Vainglory comes to PC
No matter what platform you're on, there's good stuff coming your way! TERA's Valkyrie update is finally making the jump to Xbox One and...
The Stream Team: Experiencing Celestial Domination in SMITE
Right before HRX, the newest SMITE adventure opened up, and Massively OP's MJ has not been able to jump into it -- until now!...
Experience Hi-Rez Expo Fall 2018 through pictures
Perhaps one of the saddest things to me about the Hi-Rex Expo's change in time and location this year was that I was not...
Hi-Rez Expo 2017: SMITE’s Corrupted Arena, adventures, and never saying never to an MMO
The Hi-Rez Expo's fall debut is over. The SMITE champions have been crowned. Switch and cross-platform play was announced. Upcoming gods were revealed. The news that...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Assessing the new expo venue, game experimentation, and esports
Did you catch our latest Stew Talks? It's like Ted Talks, but about gaming and Hi-Rez. When I sat down with Stew Chisam, President...
Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Stewart Chisam makes sense of the studio split, hints at new game
You've heard of Simon Says? At Hi-Rez Expo I played Stew Says, but in this game I try to get Stew Chisam, President of...
