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Star Citizen shows off Lorville business district for 3.4.0 as alpha 3.3.7 goes live
Sean Tracy and Steve Bender helm this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, and the dev update focuses on the culture and business district...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later?
So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Digital Extremes’ retro OARPG Survived By has hit early access
One of the nifty things on the way under Warframe developer Digital Extremes' publishing banner is Survived By, a retro permadeath bullet-hell MMO first...
BioWare touts Anthem’s story, drops Game Awards trailer
During last night's Game Awards, while much of the news revolved around Red Dead Redemption 2Â maybe winning a bit too much and WildCard's next...
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, the MMORPG’s battle royale mode, launches December 18
Over the course of the fall, Ashes of Creation developer Intrepid Studios has been testing a battle royale mode component for the Kickstarted full-scale...
Torchlight Frontiers’ Dusk Mage harnesses both dark and light
Don't call it Twilight anything -- the Dusk Mage has her own non-vampire thing happening. The most recent of Torchlight Frontiers' classes to be...
Dual Universe releases lengthy alpha video demoing its current sandbox content
Dual Universe has been in alpha only a week, but the team is already celebrating with a new video designed to introduce future gamers...
Temtem’s alpha adds Luma Ganki along with numerous bug fixes
The initial backer alpha release of Temtem was pretty short on critters to catch, partly by design. So it's a good thing that the patch...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 199: Delay after delay
Justin and Bree discuss delays and do-overs for Project Nova, Path of Exile, Fractured, and Blades, plus WildStar's sunset, Red Dead Online, and Fallout 76's many messes, with mailbag questions on keeping up with new MMOs and combat-free titles.
Saga of Lucimia’s pre-alpha 11 is live December 8 with SWG-style wounds and battle fatigue
If you've been following Saga of Lucimia, you probably know how the game's build tests work in pre-alpha: Stormhaven opens the servers periodically with...
Toontown Rewritten’s latest player update buffs options and character movement
Massively OP's own Justin "The Game Archaeologist" Olivetti deep-dived the history of Toontown Online in his column just about a year ago, but truth...
Betawatch: Red Dead Online is alive and possibly not red
Yes, it's possible that Red Dead Online is not very red, and it is definitely very much alive in beta testing. But calling it that...
Torchlight Frontiers gears up for another alpha test
Following a fun and frisky first closed alpha test, Torchlight Frontiers is ready to dive right back into it. Alpha 2 is on its...
Project Nova’s alpha is postponed indefinitely as CCP Games heads back to the drawing board
CCP Games has put the brakes on Project Nova, according to a message plastered on the company website today. The game isn't over, as...
Shadow’s Kiss peeks at mad science, mummies, and pole dancing
Time to dive into the seedy underbelly of the city and see what's going on with the indie vampire MMO Shadow's Kiss. The month...
BioWare’s Casey Hudson discusses Anthem development progress
In BioWare's newly published November update, General Manager Casey Hudson takes a look at what's going on behind the scenes at the studio as...
MMO ‘creature-collection adventure’ Temtem has launched its backer alpha
One of the two major MMO Kickstarter success stories of 2018 was most definitely Temtem, the clearly Pokemon-inspired "massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure" that raised...
Previewing Dual Universe’s bigger, better alpha experience – including crafting
Every time I see and learn more about Dual Universe, I have that feeling that this may be The One. The one I have...
Fractured announces first pre-alpha test starting this month, delays alpha until next year
The team at Dynamight Studios has announced that its crowdfunded sandbox MMO Fractured will be entering pre-alpha testing this week. The test phase will...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018
With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what we...