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Let’s go moon mining in EVE Online’s newly announced expansion, Lifeblood
Happy September, EVE Online. Howsabout an expansion? You got it: CCP has just announced Lifeblood, launching October 24th.
"As new technologies for resource acquisition emerge...
Snag an Amazing Eternals closed beta key from Digital Extremes and Massively OP [All gone!]
Digital Extremes' new shooter/TCG hybrid The Amazing Eternals (fka Keystone) launched its founders program this week, rolling into closed beta with a new trailer...
Star Citizen counts the 3.0 bugs it’s quashed and the toilets on the Origin 600i
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is more or less a recap of Gamescom and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the chaos behind the...
PAX West 2017: Dauntless launches closed beta today; here’s the trailer
Happy PAX day, folks! Here's your first big fun announcement: Phoenix Labs' co-op OARPG Dauntless is launching closed beta. Today. In just a few...
The Daily Grind: What wishful-thinking PAX West MMORPG announcement would blow you away?
Massively OP's MJ Guthrie is at PAX West (formerly known as PAX Prime, a much catchier name if you ask me!) for us this...
Hi-Rez and WESA announce 10-member Paladins Premier League
Blizzard isn't the only studio having a go at a massive pro league for its star shooter: Hi-Rez announced this morning what it's calling...
Ashes of Creation previews PAX pre-alpha tutorial, plans ‘alpha zero’ for December
If you can't make the Ashes of Creation demo and panel at this weekend's PAX West, don't fret: You can still check out the...
Blade & Soul’s PAX West e-sports tourney has a $170,000 prize purse
NCsoft's taking another stab at MMORPG e-sports, this time with Blade & Soul, which will serve as the focal point of the company's tourney...
Fortnite’s survival update dares you to outlast a storm for a literal fortnite
After the wacky deluge of gotta-launch-before-school-starts releases creating a pileup on the video game interstate yesterday, one might almost have missed Fortnite's big update,...
Ashes of Creation previews all four classes’ skillsets
With Ashes of Creation preparing for a major presence at PAX West this weekend, the team is bringing with it scads of reveals and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 133: Gaming Gamescom
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, sunsets for Ghost in the Shell Online and SkySaga, Closers, ArcheAge 4.0, Star Citizen's Gamescom demo, SWTOR, and WoW Argus, with mailbag questions on Marvel Heroes and MMORPGs as a drug, plus a PAX West preview.
CCP’s VR sports game Sparc has arrived on PSVR today
Remember CCP's multiplayer VR sports sim Sparc? We first heard about it back in February, and now as planned, the Icelandic studio known best for...
Microsoft encourages industry to talk about crossplay cooperation
If games industry giants can be seen as extremely territorial siblings, each jealously guarding his or her own possessions and unwilling to work with...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history
After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...
World of Warcraft rockets to Argus in patch 7.3 today
At last year's BlizzCon, when Blizzard first announced World of Warcraft fans would someday be trekking to Argus, it seemed so distant to many...
ARK Survival Evolved launches today; get caught up here with the trailer and roundup!
Try to hold back your shock: Sci-fi-dino-themed survival sandbox ARK Survival Evolved is really, truly, launching today, so put all those delay gripes and...
Ship of Heroes talks indie scope, community positivity, and designing the world
Ship of Heroes is gearing up for PAX with drop-ins with community vloggers, including The Positive Gamer, who has a flythrough video of Apotheosis...
World of Warships yanks lackluster Graf Zeppelin, offers apology and refunds
In its effort to rush a new aircraft carrier to the game in time for this past week's Gamescom, Wargaming might have done World...
Guild Wars 2 preps PAX West party, sound panel, and video teasers
If you're heading to PAX West in Seattle this weekend, you've got only two opportunities to gather with Guild Wars 2 fans. The first is...
Ashes of Creation shows off live combat, preps for major PAX West push
The growing Ashes of Creation community is abuzz over the team's recent livestream in which the MMO's combat system and UI was shown in...
