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Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...
Battle Bards Episode 109: Club Penguin
When you’ve got a club full of penguins overseen by the Mouse House itself, you know things are going to get both wacky and...
Disney has canceled Marvel Heroes, Marvel has ended its relationship with Gazillion
We can now confirm this as real, following a statement made by a Marvel representative to Massively OP. We're updating below.
According to Kotaku, Disney...
Blade & Soul teases Dawn of the Lost Continent’s sights and storyline
When Dawn of the Lost Continent drops in Blade & Soul next month, the upgrade to level 55 will be accompanied by a "sweeping...
Marvel Heroes’ update silence has stretched to four weeks; here are the latest developments
I'm afraid we still can't say that Marvel Heroes is going to be OK, as we've now gone an entire month since the last...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2017
Last weekend, even Massively OP was obsessing over BlizzCon, and we thought it would be fun to poll the writers, including those who watched...
Global Chat: World of Warcraft BlizzCon reactions
Whether you play it now or not, chances are that your paths have crossed with World of Warcraft in the past. This is true...
Marvel Heroes has now missed three weekly updates in a row as Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters
It's now been two weeks since we've had any word on the state of Marvel Heroes, as today marks the third missed Friday update in...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on alternate rulesets and multi-server MMOs
Pantheon's Brad McQuaid has another new blog post up - he's on a roll this week - this one on alternate rulesets in MMORPGs...
The Daily Grind: What would Blizzard need to do to get you back into World of Warcraft?
In last night's Massively Overthinking on hopes and fears for BlizzCon - which kicks off this afternoon! - I laid out my thoughts on...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for BlizzCon 2017
Tomorrowday, BlizzCon will be upon us, and this year we're expecting a full reveal of the new expansion for World of Warcraft, still the...
Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’
One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...
This is why ‘playing alone together’ still makes you feel connected. But is it helping?
Whenever the topic of playing solo in MMORPGs comes up, invariably the expression "playing alone together" is worked into the conversation. This is the...
Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre
I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...
MMO lockboxes: Market impact, regulation, and the letter of the law
GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent...
Battle Bards Episode 108: Vampires and werewolves
Here’s a musical episode that you can really sink your teeth into! Your… ear teeth? In any case, the Battle Bards are evaluating our...
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic’s cash shop is finally on the right track
Many of you will immediately turn to the free-to-play model of Star Wars: The Old Republic and reject my even thinking about the cash...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMO characters seem truly insane
We all like making the occasional observation about the weirdness inherent in video games, but most of us also recognize that what we're really...
Crowfall explains castle wall construction, addresses patch 5.3
Chances are that all save but the most architecturally nerdy among you don't find walls, panels, and sockets a particularly exciting topic. But your...
MMO blogger dives into the theoretical math behind lockboxes
MMO blogger Serrenity, whom many of you will recognize from his clever comments here on MOP too, has a compelling blog post on his...
