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So World of Warcraft lost three million subs in the wake of Warlords of Draenor, bringing it back down to right about where it...

Three months ago almost to the day, the Massively OP team came to you, the MMO community, with a promise and a request. AOL...

When I started writing about EVE Online for Massively back in 2008, the MMO genre was really hitting its stride, and emerging sites like...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Pathfinder Online made some noise about the future of its settlements feature. Goblinworks CEO Ryan Dancey also made...

This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Taemys, who just so happens to be a guildie of mine. He's clever,...

A common question that I see posited around forums and Reddit is, "What MMO should I play?" If there is a more loaded question...

Guild Wars -- the first Guild Wars -- celebrates its 10th birthday this week alongside several of my characters who are equally old. I originally...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, a couple of high profile projects met stretch goals. Crowfall will be hiring a dedicated graphics programmer, while...

Are you ready to have you mind absolutely blown open? Because I have an astonishing truth to lay at your feet: While doing this...

Two weeks ago, a mathemagician over at The Nosy Gamer published some interesting calculations showing that EVE Online's subscriptions may have dropped by around...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned about the new Powerplay update coming to Elite: Dangerous that promises to revamp the space sim's...

Since the last edition of WoW Factor, two big things hit World of Warcraft in quick succession. The first is that the much-discussed WoW...

The Secret World is kicking off a weekend of power early. What makes this weekend worthy of the nickname of "Power Weekend," exactly? Just...

The last time the retailer yanked boxes of a game from the shelves and returned them to the distributors, it was The Elder Scrolls...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye to Descent Underground's fundraising campaign. It was a fond farewell, though, since the sci-fi space shooter reboot topped...

Whether or not developers like the term "whales," the truth is that big spenders are still very big business for free-to-play games. Gamasutra points...

Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...

Have you been holding on to your hat during the first day of WoW Token sales? Did you think that 30,000 gold was a...

Looking forward to paying for your World of Warcraft subscription with in-game gold? You don't have long to wait at all; the WoW Token...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye (apparently) to Greed Monger. We also said hello to Pathfinder's early access head start and,...