battle royale
Black Desert’s standalone battle royale title Shadow Arena enters closed beta on February 27
Can a game really get a second chance to make a first impression? We may well find out once Shadow Arena, the standalone battle...
H1Z1 aka Z1 Battle Royale’s concurrency shot up 900% last month – here’s why
If you happen to be one of those weirdos who is constantly thumbing through SteamCharts to see how games are doing (i.e., me), you...
Apex Legends’ Season 4 adds a new character, new weapon, and an updated map
It's Season 4 time in the battle royale shooter Apex Legends, which means it's time to see the word "new" a lot. As in...
Interview: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs just announced a new game called Colossus
Camelot Unchained studio City State Entertainment has been teasing something big for a while now. This morning, CSE's Mark Jacobs told backers to tune...
Massively Overthinking: The undeath of the MMORPG genre
Last week, there was a provocative thread on the MMORPG subreddit that subverted the tired idea that the genre is "dead." It's not, u/Selphea...
Magnificent 5, the battle royale Wild West Online spinoff, is now out on Steam, kinda
Way back in the long long ago, Wild West Online joined the MMO scene, kinda flopped, relaunched, all but sank its studio, was rescued...
APB Reloaded promises quality-of-life updates and Unreal Engine upgrade in its 2020 roadmap
APB Reloaded is also on that 2020 roadmap kick that's hotter than the battle royale subgenre lately. Little Orbit's promised updates for the coming...
Vague Patch Notes: Chronicle of a Daybreak death foretold
On Tuesday, Daybreak Games announced what amounts to a form of slow death. Technically, sure, what it announced was that the company is splitting...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Agonia Lands, Decentraland, Fable Valley, Bloodstone Online, Hunter’s Arena Legends
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of - or have totally forgotten about until now!
First up...
Darwin Project is basically reality TV battle royale, and it’s now launched on Steam
It's been something like a year and a half since we last covered Darwin Project, but you'll remember it as one of the many,...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Fantasy Toonz is a in-development open world MMO featuring battle royale arenas
If you're one of those people who hates the word "toons," you're not gonna like what this one's called. In fact, if you're also...
GTAO, Apex Legends, Warframe, and H1Z1 are among PlayStation’s most-downloaded games of 2019
One of the frustrations we always have when reporting on playerbase size in the MMO industry is that the console market is way more...
Apex Legends’ Grand Soiree Arcade Event features two weeks of changing game modes
Are you the sort of person who adapts to a new game mode in short order? Say, a couple of days? If that's the...
Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO or online game of 2019?
Let's be honest: The last time a brand-new MMORPG really deserved a GOTY was when Black Desert ran away with it. This is why...
Ashes of Creation’s 2020 outlook includes Alpha One, castle sieges
Promising "exciting announcements" and "significant team growth" in the new year, Intrepid Studios' Steven Sharif penned a letter that attempts to wrest attention back...
The best Massively OP community polls of 2019
Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...
New Frontier leaves early access, Magnificent 5 enters early access, and a zombie-based spinoff is revealed
This one is a bit of a wild ride, friends, so bear with me here. One game has broken up into three pieces, each...
Lineage 2: Revolution introduces a self-playing Offline Mode for easy hunting and conquest
So you've got this mobile MMO Lineage 2: Revolution installed on your phone, but you're too busy to farm things right now. With the...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2019
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. Hey, you...
