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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...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 reworks its Gyala Delve meta-event
Guild Wars 2 pushed out a patch last week that adjusted how the Gyala Delve meta-event functions and doles out rewards. Part of this...
APB Reloaded’s 2023 roadmap plans include hosting upgrades, anti-cheat and anti-griefing, and new features
The Herculean effort to drag APB: Reloaded kicking and screaming into the modern age is going to doggedly continue through this year if a...
Massively Overthinking: How should MMOs handle in-game criming?
A week or so ago, I fell down a rabbit hole when writing up an ArcheAge post. Kakao was handing out joke titles for...
APB Reloaded flips the ignition switch for its 64-bit client upgrade with a beta test
Third time is hopefully the charm with APB Reloaded's attempt to improve its client. Little Orbit announced that the beta for the game's 64-bit...
A nasty account-destroying exploit is currently ruining Grand Theft Auto Online
Grand Theft Auto Online is apparently suffering from a nasty exploit that's allowing exploiters to muck up fellow players' accounts and gameplay.
The issue was...
APB Reloaded welcomes the winter holidays, addresses ‘open letter’ from players
Even a crime-ridden city will take a break to allow some holiday cheer to trickle in, which is the case for APB Reloaded. A...
GTA Online players can now get into the psychedelics business with today’s Los Santos Drug Wars update
Today is the day when Grand Theft Auto Online players can get trippy with the release of the Los Santos Drug Wars update, which...