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Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
Pantheon begins pre-alpha testing for high-end backers
It's a big day for indie MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, as it's the first day the gates open to external pre-alpha testers...
Ship of Heroes recaps 2017, teases Christmas event, and looks ahead to 2018’s beta
Who says you have to have launched to have holiday events? Not Ship of Heroes. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG has a...
EVE Evolved: Calling time on EVE Online’s five-year vision
When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...
Betawatch: There’s factions in them there hills of Wild West Online (December 8, 2017)
Let's start with something that you probably already ascertained: Wild West Online is being delayed. It delayed its early access alpha, and that delay...
Who does Star Citizen love now? HOVERBIKES!
Is Star Citizen alpha 3.0 going to make it past the PTU testers to the live server by Christmas? It's looking pretty tight. According...
Eleven boots up a Glitch wiki to crowdsource info
As Glitch fan remake Eleven reemerges on the scene with more alpha developments, the team has a plea that it is making to the...
Saga of Lucimia lays the foundation for a holiday alpha test
Forget cookies with Santa and New Year countdowns: Saga of Lucimia hopes that you'll be too immersed in its next alpha test to care...
Wild West Online’s early access has been delayed into next year
In a move that will shock nobody who's played the game, watched the game being played, or followed the multiple delays suffered by the game...
Survive the Nights brings back classic fort-building survival
Can we make an agreement right now, you and I? That if the world ends because of a zombie uprising, maybe we can work...
Betawatch: Star Citizen sells land… in space! (December 1, 2017)
Selling spaceships that don't exist yet? That is so 2016. The new thing for Star Citizen is selling land that doesn't exist yet, which...
Star Citizen’s monthly studio report covers alpha 3.0 work, eyes Squadron 42
What's Cloud Imperium been up to the last month? Oh nothing much, just frantically trying to prepare Star Citizen's alpha 3.0 to debut ahead...
Survived By arrives on Steam as its closed alpha progresses
The love child of bullet hell shooters and permadeath MMORPGs is now on Steam, and it's taking no prisoners. That's just not how it...
Ship of Heroes readies combat alpha, shows off a massive raid test
It's a hundred identical superheroes in hot pants facing off against a giant robot, and that robot does not stand a chance.
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Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar
The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
Fractured tops 5,000 registrations, progresses toward Kickstarter and alpha
Its team might be miniscule, its alpha more than a year away, and its funding still unsecured, but Fractured is powering ahead as best...
Slay-to-win: Massively OP’s hands-on with the Dauntless closed beta
The end of September marked a major milestone for Dauntless, the upcoming monster-slaying action-MMORPG from indie developer Phoenix Labs, as it officially concluded its...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas state-of-the-game dev diary
It's been a hot minute since we heard from El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
ECO’s player housing is more beneficial than you think
In some online games, player housing is mostly a way to show off personal creativity and set up a space of your own. In...