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Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
The Game Archaeologist: Disney’s Toontown Online
The use of the word "toon" to describe MMORPG characters is a contentious one, with fans divided over its annoyance or acceptance. But when...
Star Citizen wraps up CitizenCon, posts Alpha 3.0 production schedule
Didn't get enough of late October's CitizenCon 2947? Then settle back with a cup of pumpkin space latte and drink in a retrospective straight...
The Stream Team: A first look at survival in SOS (plus giveaway!)
A survival game with a twist? Color Massively OP's MJ intrigued! As long as that isn't pink, that is. SOS is a new multiplayer...
Betawatch: Star Citizen dazzles, delights, and declines dates (November 3, 2017)
There was a lot of stuff that went down at the most recent Star Citizen convention, although none of the things that went down...
EVE Online expands its free-to-play offerings in the wake of studio instability
Good news, EVE Online fans! CCP is pretty happy with how the game's Alpha clone system has worked out, all things considered. In fact,...
Grab a key for SOS’s weekend alpha test from Outpost and MOP!
Here's a newish game to our pages: SOS, a multiplayer survival PC game "where 16 contestants face off in a 30-minute challenge to escape."...
The Repopulation preps for ‘massive’ patch next week with world bosses and fishing tournaments
Mark your calendars for next Wednesday, November 8th, because this is the day that The Repopulation will get back on the patch train once...
Wild West Online resets early access for November 15, still plans 2017 launch
Following all the delays and weirdness this past fall during which the game was declared "just not ready yet," the team behind Wild West Online...
Warframe developer Digital Extremes is building a new ‘free-to-play action MMO’
Sharp-eyed readers caught some interesting information in Digital Extremes' latest company report.
The Warframe developer slipped in a line that it was working on a...
Dual Universe’s pre-alpha launch was ‘a huge and fantastic moment’
With limited-run tests on September 30th and October 21st, Dual Universe is taking small steps for dev-kind into the pre-alpha world. The team reports...
Economist argues that the ESRB is wilfully promoting gambling to children
If you've been following the lockbox/lootbox controversy over the last couple of weeks (or last multiple years, ahem), then you know that opponents of...
Wild West Online continues to postpone persistent alpha, posts female character render
Wild West Online's pattern of delays in its testing process continues. Back in August, the team behind this western MMO posted a schedule that...
ECO drops a massive alpha build with world laws, player contracts, and fishing
It is high time that we check back in with ECO, that multiplayer world ecosystem simulator, because there's some major happenings going on in...
Hellgate: London revival project opens its alpha to everyone
Still finding yourself pining away for Hellgate: London on occasion -- or perhaps you missed out on it the first time around? This 10-year-old...
Ashes of Creation offers a peek at its Alpha Zero environment
Point the first: Can we all agree that "Alpha Zero" is a really cool name? It seems weird that we don't have dozens of...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is heading to Xbox One in December
For too long, the Xbox One has not had nearly enough games in which you wander aimlessly through a town looking for guns before...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 142: The state of the sci-fi MMO genre
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, Destiny 2, RIFT, CCP's studio closures, Warframe, and Star Citizen's CitizenCon, with tidbits on Guild Wars 2, Trove, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and BlizzCon, and a mailbag question on the future of traditional MMORPGs.
Indie MMO Project Gorgon gets its Halloween on
Project Gorgon isn't going to let a little thing like "being in alpha" stop it from indulging in the greatest monster-themed holiday of the...
Ship of Heroes reveals its Dark Magic Blast powerset just in time for Halloween
If you're missing the Halloween flair of City of Heroes today as I am, maybe point your eyeballs at Ship of Heroes instead. This...
