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Sword Coast Legends invites players to a free weekend
Sword Coast Legends had a bumpy start earlier this fall, with delays and mixed reviews upon release. However, the title has been patching in...
MechWarrior Online’s 2016 world championship, steam launch, and more
The MechWarrior Online content train is charging full steam ahead, and that's not just because the game is now on Steam! Back when MWO...
Student lands jail time for 2012 RuneScape robbery
Way back in 2012, Fordham University student Humza Bajwa was busted by New York cops for holding a pair of RuneScape players at (what...
The Daily Grind: Is early access creating gated MMO communities?
I'm not generally interested in early access programs these days. For one thing, there are so many fully fleshed-out MMOs on the market that...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for biggest MMO blunder of the year.
Last year, we called developer hubris and obstinance the biggest blunder...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?
Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...
Not So Massively: Counter-Strike nerfs all the guns (December 14, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
The Ghost in the Shell online shooter is live now on Steam
Say this one ten times fast:Â Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online is live today on Steam's early access platform....
Trion compensates Devilian players for lost progress on the Seadrift server
There's nothing quite like logging in over the weekend to play some Devilian, logging out after a little while, and then logging back in......
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio maintains the best community presence?
Last week, when the Massively staff was debating internally which MMO company deserved our best MMO studio of 2015 award, I argued that overseas studios...
One Shots: Underground wonders
Spelunking isn't just a fun word to say but an exciting activity in its own right. Players who take the time to explore under...
DayZ now allows monetized private servers
In the event of a zombie apocalypse like the one that has apparently hit the world of DayZ, human money will be entirely worthless....
Second impressions of Trion’s Devilian: The pros and cons
Some of you might recall that this past month, my family welcomed a new addition to its household. With a newborn around once more, I'm...
WRUP: On the shininess of skin edition
Let's cover something that I would think is... kind of obvious. Skin is not, by default, shiny. It is not reflective. It does not...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best wardrobe system?
I think about MMO fashion a lot because I'm a weird person who doesn't get invited to a lot of parties (or maybe it's...
SWTOR is working on a new warzone and fresh monthly content
BioWare Community Manager Eric Musco hit the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums this afternoon and dived into the hellishly long discussion thread that's been rolling since...
Perfect Ten: The 10 best free-to-play MMORPGs
You know one of the reasons I like writing this column? Because one of these days I'm going to be able to make a...
The Daily Grind: Do you roll new characters when you return to an MMO?
It's been a really long time since I logged into Lord of the Rings Online to do anything other than pay up my hobbit...
Stratics MMO players turn to Indiegogo in bid to buy their own site
If you've been playing MMOs for as long as I have, then Stratics.com was probably one of the first MMO websites you ever visited,...
Age of Conan loses lead designer, offers multi-month sub deal
Sad tidings are in store for the Age of Conan community today, as Lead Designer Matthew "CirithGorgor" Bennett announced that he is leaving Funcom.
Bennett...
