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Betawatch: Worlds Adrift takes criticism and updates free tools (September 8, 2017)
Nobody likes being criticized, ever. But it's a reality of life, and so Worlds Adrift has been taking the feedback from players about the...
PAX West 2017: Taking a closer look at En Masse’s Closers
When I visited the En Masse offices during PAX West, it was a crash course in learning how to use a controller -- which...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West
PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Dauntless’ new behemoth
Although I'd recently played a bit of Dauntless, I was looking forward to my hands-on at PAX West. That's because I was primed to...
City of Titans plans 2017 pre-alpha, crowdfund to ‘take things to the next level’
City of Titans studio Missing Worlds Media has just posted a recap of its presentation at last week's PAX West and a status update...
PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe
If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish....
PAX West 2017: Atlas Reactor’s next freelancers are a hamster and a dino
Atlas Reactor has come a long way since it first opened its doors. When I very first tried the alpha back in February, there...
PAX West 2017: Watch the full Ashes of Creation panel
This past weekend at PAX West, Ashes of Creation made sure to drop a few announcement bombs on its community that showed up to...
PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes’ demo trailer outlines testing for 2017 and 2018
During the superhero MMO panel last night, Ship of Heroes' CEO, Casey McGeever, demoed the game in a new trailer that heralded several announcements...
PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation reveals December 15 alpha zero, Bear McCreary as composer
During the Ashes of Creation panel at PAX West, Founder and Creative Director Steven Sharif announced the exact date of the upcoming Alpha...
PAX West 2017: Rend expands world size, adds more MMO elements
Wondering what happened to Rend since its big debut at PAX East? Frostkeep Studios went decidedly quiet over the summer after the three-faction sandbox's first alpha....
Betawatch: Destiny 2 storms to PC (September 1, 2017)
The open beta for Destiny 2 finally hit the PC, and while I'm generally reluctant to say that anything is the preferred platform for...
MMOARPG Wild Buster is selling founder packs on Indiegogo
Massively OP's Justin Olivetti joked that it sounded like a game by Mad Libs, but Wild Buster is in fact a sci-fi hack-and-slash MMOARPG being ported westward...
Let’s go moon mining in EVE Online’s newly announced expansion, Lifeblood
Happy September, EVE Online. Howsabout an expansion? You got it: CCP has just announced Lifeblood, launching October 24th.
"As new technologies for resource acquisition emerge...
Camelot Unchained on the perks of RvR PvP and overdelivering on tech promises
Were you worried that Camelot Unchained would slack off on its newsletters whilst in the pre-beta crunch? You needn't have -- this month's missive...
PAX West 2017: Dauntless launches closed beta today; here’s the trailer
Happy PAX day, folks! Here's your first big fun announcement: Phoenix Labs' co-op OARPG Dauntless is launching closed beta. Today. In just a few...
Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs
One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...
Sea of Thieves makes being a terrible pirate look like so much fun
If you're ever out casually patrolling the open sea in your pirate ship, you probably shouldn't light every lantern, dance on the prow, and...
Ashes of Creation previews PAX pre-alpha tutorial, plans ‘alpha zero’ for December
If you can't make the Ashes of Creation demo and panel at this weekend's PAX West, don't fret: You can still check out the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 133: Gaming Gamescom
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, sunsets for Ghost in the Shell Online and SkySaga, Closers, ArcheAge 4.0, Star Citizen's Gamescom demo, SWTOR, and WoW Argus, with mailbag questions on Marvel Heroes and MMORPGs as a drug, plus a PAX West preview.