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Some Assembly Required: Grand Theft Online roleplay is a tough nut to crack
A few months ago, I discovered the world of Red Dead Online roleplay. The possibility of interacting with other players and discovering mechanics in...
MMO Business Roundup: Gaming addiction, GTA6, Ubisoft layoffs, Epic v. Google, and more
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. There's been a lot this week, so we'll keep 'em brief!
Addiction: A woman...
Design Mockument: Can an open PvP full-loot system for MMOs be designed fairly?
I have an interesting relationship to open PvP design in MMORPGs, or at least I find it interesting. I don't think this kind of...
APB Reloaded’s Halloween event returns – but for PC only
A warning has been issued to all APB Reloaded units notifying them of a dangerous Headless Horseman in the vicinity. This is due to...
Remember that report about cops fired for playing Pokemon Go on duty? There’s video now, and it’s worse
Way back in 2016 and 2017, it was rare to see a month go by without some sort of dreadful story about Pokemon Go...
Grand Theft Auto Online celebrates Halloween with thematic modes, extra rewards, and a spooky mask
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online is dangerous enough without Halloween hijinks complicating matters, but that's precisely what's happening across Los Santos as...
MMO Burnout: Non-MMOs that scratch my MMO progression grind itch
There are plenty of reasons people play MMORPGs, whether it's to experience a story (yes, those exist), run in some PvP wars, or grind...
GTA Online celebrates 10 years of Grand Theft Auto V with in-game events and goodies
Yesterday marked 10 years since Grand Theft Auto V released to the gaming world, which was cause for Grand Theft Auto Online to celebrate...
No Man’s Sky’s 4.4 Echoes release is live – meet your new space robot friends
Hello Games has been dropping little teases all week, so the fact that a new No Man's Sky update has officially arrived this morning...
Rockstar absorbs platform behind Red Dead Online and GTA Online’s modded roleplay servers
This is either great news or terrible news for players of Red Dead Online and Grand Theft Auto Online: Cfx.re, the platform that lets...
Red Dead Redemption is getting a basic re-release, Red Dead Online continues its shambolic updates
Rockstar Games appears to be continuing to take the minimum viable product path when it comes to supporting the long-suffering Red Dead Online fanbase...
Rainbow Six player responsible for a swatting of Ubisoft sentenced to three years of community service
Back in 2020, the developers of Ubisoft Montreal were faced with a frightening and harrowing experience when the office building they work at was...
Not So Massively Roundup: Among Us’ 5th birthday, GTAO Mercs, & betas for The Finals and The First Descendant
Welcome back to a quick Not So Massively roundup of MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles with new info this week!
First, Grand Theft Auto Online reared its...
Star Citizen is creeping up on $600M in crowdfunding, outstripping many AAA titles’ budgets
It's time for our semi-annual (semi-monthly? semi-regular?) look at the funding page for Star Citizen, and once more we're seeing the cost of keeping...
Perfect Ten: Get out of my dreams and get into my (MMO) car
Cars. They go vroom-vroom, and then they go really fast, and how do we live in a country where you basically need a car...
The MOP Up: Netmarble and Take-Two finances are powered by MMOs
We have a couple more earnings reports to, er, report to you today. Netmarble's Q1 2023 financials reported $472.4M in revenue, with MMORPGs making...
Some Assembly Required: Red Dead roleplay servers succeed where Red Dead Online failed
One of my all-time favorite single-player game experiences was Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. The underserved Western genre is beautifully realized in this open-world...
APB Reloaded celebrates five years since acquisition by Little Orbit
APB Reloaded has had one hell of a run. True story, when it launched as All-Points Bulletin in 2010, it was one of the...
Grand Theft Auto Online offers additional rewards for playing The Last Dose on hard mode
If you were among those Grand Theft Auto Online players who enjoyed March's The Last Dose missions, perhaps you'll be encouraged to play them...
Wisdom of Nym: We don’t need another Final Fantasy XIV – we already have one
First of all, this one's for Bruno. He usually doesn't read these, but maybe he'll like this one.
So we all know at this point...
