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Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMO house of all time?
You folks know I love MMO housing systems, and in fact, we've been crowning the MMOs with the best housing systems for years. But...
E3 2021: Everything multiplayer from Nintendo Direct
Well, Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans may remain disappointed after today's lack of update info, but Nintendo's 2021 E3 news did have a lot of...
Palia is a new ‘community simulation MMO’ from former Blizzard and Riot devs
A few weeks ago, I attended a press event for a new game assuming I would not be impressed by the offerings. Instead, I...
The MOP Up: Skyforge takes Switch players to the moon
Earlier this year, Nintendo Switch users were treated to a full-fledged MMORPG with the launch of Skyforge on the platform. Now, Skyforge is taking...
Animal Crossing New Horizons unveils more design space, an Island Tour Creator, and the return of Bunny Day
There's a whole lot of new features coming to your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island in the next few days according to a sizeable...
Animal Crossing New Horizons latest transmedia synergy effort is with Build-A-Bear
Animal Crossing New Horizons has been king of the crossovers for a while now, with partnerships with everything from fast-fashion makeup brands to an...
Massively Overthinking: ‘Dead games’ in the MMO space
I had a laugh a while back when I spied this tweet in my feeds from a Bungie CM who was suggesting people mute...
Hamilton in Animal Crossing New Horizons is the unofficial crossover the world needs more of
While painting my entire house this winter, I listened to Hamilton approximately 300 times and am now a little bit obsessed, which means that...
MMO Business Roundup: Gamestonk is tipping toward over as shares dip below $100 a pop
Welcome back to a fresh roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news!
Gamestonk: It's starting to look as if last week's wild GameStop stock squeeze...
Animal Crossing New Horizons returns with series staple Mardi ‘Festivale’
A festivale's coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but please, keep your shirts and pants on. ACNH's version of Mardi Gras involves a peacock, feathers,...
Animal Crossing New Horizons teams up with Colourpop for makeup collab
File this one under first bizarre crossover of the year so far: Nintendo is releasing Animal Crossing: New Horizons branded makeup through Colourpop.
For my...
Why WB Games should make a new Asheron’s Call game in 2021+: The mechanics
Just based on lore alone, WB Games should make a new Asheron's Call game. As I argued last time, AC has the qualities of an underutilized...
MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best inappropriately sexy MMO post
MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best inappropriately sexy MMO post. (If you’re wondering what the heck a Golden Yachtie...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Not-So-Massively Game of the Year
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for the Not-So-Massively Game of the Year, which was awarded to No Man's Sky...
Not So Massively: Looking back at 2020 and ahead to 2021 in the realm of not-so-massively games
So another year comes, and the last one's gone, and we dig deep just to carry on. Musical allusions notwithstanding, I thought it might...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021
So... 2020 didn't go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2020
We have a fun end-of-the-year tradition on MOP to recap the best and worst MMO developer quotes of the year. In fact, I keep...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the devs of the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is seemingly cracking down on orgs and ‘politics’ in-game
Back in October, we reported on a move by Joe Biden's presidential campaign to create an island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which was...
For Science: Gaming is good for you, actually, suggests new Oxford study
A new University of Oxford study published this week suggests that there's a "positive relation between game play and well-being."
The paper itself hasn't been...
