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Perfect Ten: Recent promising MMOs that died before they were born
Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...
Scavengers enters PC maintenance mode and cans console development as its studio gets sold by Improbable
Over the past year, we've been following the development of Scavengers, a multiplayer PvPvE survival shooter that entered early access last April. Gameplay involved...
Global Chat: How do you deal with FOMO in MMOs?
FOMO -- or the fear of missing out -- is quite prevalent in the MMO gaming community. It's hard to resist that siren's song...
Eternal Crusade is now officially shut down for good
We're not entirely certain, but this probably means that the heretics won. Eternal Crusade is now shut down for good, with the developers posting one last...
Swords of Legends Online is launching two new easy- and normal-mode raids tomorrow
Swords of Legends Online is due for a big patch tomorrow that ought to make raiders happy. The patch notes introduce the Waves in...
Warhammer Eternal Crusade is sunsetting on September 10
So who remembers Warhammer Eternal Crusade? I sure had forgotten all about it. When last we checked in on it, it was 2018 and...
Stick and Rudder: Leader of Elite Dangerous ‘slavery’ racket espouses a ‘cult-like’ guild full of ‘chaos and evil’
Last week we reported on an effort by several players of Elite: Dangerous to dupe new players into a sort of indentured servitude by...
World of Warships was reprimanded by advertising regulators over misleading lockbox promo
We're 22 days into 2021 and we haven't had a gaming lootbox mess yet, but that ends today.
As MMO Fallout first reported, the Cyprus...
For Science: Gaming is good for you, actually, suggests new Oxford study
A new University of Oxford study published this week suggests that there's a "positive relation between game play and well-being."
The paper itself hasn't been...
Global Chat: Is MMO crafting obsolete?
Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...
The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMORPG-related subreddits?
If you don't read much Reddit, you might be unaware that the one most squarely on point with our genre, /r/MMORPG, had a bit...
Interview: Population Zero devs on the May Steam launch, buy-to-play, and PvP philosophy
Survival MMORPG Population Zero is officially launching on Steam in early May, Enplex Games announced today. As part of the reveal, the studio's also...
Survival shooter DEATHGARDEN announces its shutdown and goes free-to-play in the meantime
All things must die. It is the way of nature and underperforming multiplayer shooters. So it is with DEATHGARDEN, the multiplayer survival shooter/battle royale...
Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’
Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs.
"Recently my game of choice,...
NetEase is launching an R&D-focused studio in Montreal
The city of Montreal is clearly an intriguing location for Chinese online games company NetEase. The company has announced the launch of a new...
EVE Evolved: NPC invasions wreak havoc across EVE Online
When CCP Games released a new EVE Online expansion named Invasion at the end of last month, players were readying themselves to battle limited...
EVE Evolved: Getting ready for the Invasion in EVE Online
EVE Online's Invasion expansion lands in just two days on May 28th, and there are plenty of things you can do now to make...
Jagex picks up EVE Online vet Nathan Richardsson, is still working on multiple secret MMOs
If you've been reading Massively OP for a while, you're not going to be surprised whatsoever to once again hear the news that Jagex...
For Science: Yet another study finds no link between violent video games and aggression
Yet another academic study appears to indicate no correlation between aggressive behavior and violent video games, this one specifically in kids.
In the newly published...
RuneScape boots player who streamed himself bullying a suicidal gamer
A game as large and old and multifaceted as RuneScape is bound to collect some bad seeds over time, and as we've seen repeatedly...
