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Magic to Master goes crypto, ties down a publisher, and eyes a nebulous February early access release window
With all of the loud goose honking that came out of the gaming industry in 2023, it would be understandably easy to have forgotten...
SoulWorker hands publishing duties off to Valofe ‘for its continued enhancement and maintenance’
SoulWorker is another one of those action MMOs that has had a history of being passed about more frequently than a football: The game's...
Kritika Zero is yanked from Steam hours before its launch in favor of Valofe’s platform
In the annals of unpleasant last-minute surprises for MMO launches, this one may take the cake. Yesterday we reported that the originally NFT-infested Kritika...
Kritika Global is officially shut down on Steam today while Kritika Zero heads for release tomorrow
This is a tale of two Kritika Online titles, which might be a mercy since this game has come back four different times. Specifically,...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Wildmender, Kaetram, and Kingdom the Blood
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time around we're checking out an...
GDC’s 2024 industry survey: Game devs weigh in on AI, layoffs, unionization, RTO, and more
Every year, GDC conducts an industry-wide survey of game developers and compiles the results in its State of the Game Industry, the 2024 edition...
Tibia-inspired MMO Ravendawn launches today – without the NFTs of its sister game
Those looking for a new MMO launch to start the year or a spiritual successor to one of the genre's oldest titles may want...
PSA: Cryptocurrency scammers are stealing Solarpunk’s assets for use in NFTs and a supposed metaverse
At this point we'd like to believe that the vast majority of our readers are assured that cryptocurrency games, metaverses, and NFTs are all...
The Daily Grind: Which game, studio, or idea was the biggest contributor to killing the MMORPG genre in 2023?
When we first started running this annual Daily Grind, MMO players were most likely to point to the likes of Blizzard and Tencent. Then...
Square-Enix’s new president mentions blockchain and generative AI in new year letter
The departure of Yosuke Matsuda from the presidency of Square-Enix in 2023 means that at the top of 2024, he has not written a...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest MMO celebrity insert
Today we're kicking off our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2023!
Coming in at #5 on our...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Most Deserving MMO Steam Ban
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Most Deserving MMO Steam Ban. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2023
This month marks MOP's ninth consecutive year covering science-related news specific to MMORPGs and MMOs, but like last year, there wasn't nearly as much...
Kritika Online is coming back for the fourth time, this time under the stewardship of Valofe
Kritika Online seems to keep coming back like a bad penny. The anime action combat MMO:
First landed on western shores in 2017 until...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2023
Some years, it's hard to really cut a distinction between the biggest stories of a year and the biggest surprises. There can be a...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Star Trek Online now has third-party ship model NFTs as new Cryptic boss DECA opens hiring
Remember back when Star Trek Online announced that it was ending its six-year partnership with GamePrint, bringing to an end the service that allowed...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares to celebrate 10 years of monthly updates in December
It's been almost 10 years since Shroud of the Avatar started making monthly updates - since December 2013 by Catnip Games' reckoning, which is...
CCP Games’ EVE Online-adjacent blockchain game Project Awakening confirms a December 6 playtest
Back in March we reported that CCP Games had begun development of Project Awakening, a blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe. The...
