coronavirus
The Daily Grind: How did the pandemic change your MMO gaming this year?
It's certainly been an unprecedented year for all of us, especially with the coronavirus impacting pretty much all spheres of our daily life. Even...
CCP Games’ EVE Online community raised $135,500 for COVID-19 response through PLEX for GOOD
EVE Online is having a good run right about now. Not only is it busy enjoying topping its own Guinness World Records and contributing...
Massively Uplifting: Supporting small businesses, grieving through games, and lending helping hands
Did you go trick-or-treating? There's still time! Here, have a handful of warm fuzzies! Take some full-sized good deeds! October has been full of...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2020: Blizzard MAUs fell to 30M as overall ActiBlizz revenues hold steady
It's time for another round of Activision-Blizzard financials as today covers Q3 2020. It's been a weird couple of years for the company as...
As US COVID deaths pass 200,000, the LA ComicCon refuses to cancel
Since January, we've been covering the endless stream of gaming and geek conventions that have closed their doors and gone online in an effort...
EVE Online players submitted over 41M classifications to fight COVID for CCP’s latest Project Discovery initiative
What's better than a science MMO story or a feel-good MMO story? One that's both. And this one is both, as EVE Online and...
Massively Uplifting: MMOs from LOTRO to ESO bring comfort, healing, camaraderie, and charity
Summer may be ending, but good deeds and uplifting stories aren't! Throughout August we've been surrounded by stories of kindness, generosity, and goodness within...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn DLC arrives on consoles
Good news for the patient and long-suffering Elder Scrolls Online console players: The game's latest DLC and patch have finally arrived following the PC...
Massively Overthinking: How we deal with burning out of MMOs
Back in August, MOP's own Justin wrote a piece on his Bio Break blog about moderation in gaming that resonated with me. He described...
Ashes of Creation’s latest stream homes in on castle sieges and hybrid combat
Ashes of Creation's latest livestream is a wide-ranging one, covering the game's hybrid combat system, castle sieges, context expectations for beta, and the probability...
G-Star 2020 will now be an all-digital event as a result of COVID-19
G-Star, South Korea's biggest games industry show, has officially announced that it will be a fully digital affair for 2020 as a result of...
GDC Summer 2020: Better living, climate awareness, and citizen science through games
Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games as medicine or for...
City of Heroes Homecoming confirms NCsoft talks continue, plans new name, domain, and launcher
Of all the City of Heroes rogue servers to spring up over the last year in the wake of the 2019 reveal that the...
ArtCraft on Crowfall’s beta release today, Eternal Kingdoms, the newbie experience, and much more
Crowfall, the PvP-centered MMORPG originally Kickstarted back in 2015, announced last week that it had finally arrived at its beta milestone and would begin...
GDC Summer 2020: How Niantic adapted Pokemon Go gameplay in the time of COVID-19
GDC Summer 2020 is running all this week, and I'm, well, at home. But much like Pokemon Go, the convention adapted, and while I've...
Riot is closing up shop for a week to grant devs a break from crunch and deadlines
It's not at all uncommon for senior staff to take holiday vacations in the USA, nor is it uncommon for whole studios in Europe...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2020: Year-over-year revenues are up for the first time in six quarters
We're back with another dip into Activision-Blizzard's financials, this one Q2 2020, the first report since shareholders lambasted the company for excessive executive pay...
Massively Uplifting: Good deeds don’t take the summer off for Bungie, Niantic, and Trolls in WoW
When summer comes, some lucky folks get to take the season off. Even those who continue on their regular labors often head out on...
Camelot Unchained works on giants, pretty trees, wyverns, and replacing Ben Pielstick
It's another week of Camelot Unchained updates with another Top Ten-ish and look at artwork -- followers know the drill by now. In this...
Call of Duty gamers ignore pandemic-related safety orders at unofficial esports gathering
I never got the impression that some players of Call of Duty are a particularly compliant bunch, and that assumption was not helped by...
