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In development MMORPG BitCraft counts 752,000 pre-alpha test applicants
BitCraft is one of the multiple new games from new startup studios with long pedigrees (and huge bankrolls) that we've caught wind of in...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2022: Revenues decline as Black Desert and EVE hold steady and Crimson Desert malingers
Pearl Abyss posted its Q4 2022 financials this week, and unlike some of its regional counterparts whose chief interest is China or South Korea,...
Q4 2022: Nexon counts huge YOY revenue boost, pushes harder into blockchain
Nexon's Q4 2022 financial figures are the latest to arrive this week, as CEO Owen Mahoney presided over a mostly decent quarter for the...
Q4 2022: Krafton threatens to launch a ‘create-to-earn’ platform in 2023
Korean games giant Krafton reported $1.47B US in revenues for the full year 2022 period, with operating profit up 15.5% year over year but...
Mobile MMORPG World of Zenonia resurfaces with a new name and planned connection to the blockchain
Back in March 2020 we reported on World of Zenonia, an upcoming mobile MMORPG based on the long-running series of action RPGs that primarily...
PSA: World Eternal Online is actually just the blockchain MMO Core Loop announced last year
Do you remember last year when developer Core Loop raised $12 million in order to develop a blockchain-integrated MMO? Probably not, there has been...
Shroud of the Avatar plots more tutorials, new treasure maps, and more Episode 2 content in 2023
Shroud of the Avatar has laid out a course for 2023, with a roadmap of planned updates to quests, features, and communication for the...
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s upcoming ‘skill-based mint’ NFT game sparks a speculation market
While there are many of us normal humans who don't participate in a wildly speculative and volatile market powered by FOMO, art theft, environmental...
GDC’s State of the Games Industry survey once again demonstrates dev skepticism for metaverse and blockchain hokum
This year's State of the Game Industry from GDC - its 11th since beginning the project - delivers a range of insights from the...
One of Ubisoft’s canceled games was a PvP team battle arena dubbed Project Q
In covering Ubisoft's ongoing clownshow - the mass-game cancelations, the sixth delay of Skull & Bones, the CEO gaffe, and the impending worker strike...
Massively Overthinking: The biggest 2022 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
As we wrap up our end-of-the-year and turn-of-the-calendar content until next December, there's one more recurring Massively Overthinking I like to do - and...
Korean MMO Project TS scored a global publisher – but it’s a blockchain purveyor
As we recently demonstrated in our lengthy list of in-development MMOs, there's a whole lot coming down the pike. Now we can add another...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023
As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO was the biggest contributor to killing the genre in 2022?
This provocative Daily Grind has been in our annual top-of-the-year rotation since 2016, and I'm gonna keep it that way because I think it...
Square-Enix’s Yosuke Matsuda is still all-in on blockchain and NFTs even after 2022
You might think that after watching the steady erosion and collapse of blockchain and NFTs in general and in the gaming space after 2022,...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2022 edition
A few years back, we started collecting our happiest stories under the "warm fuzzies" tag and our most unpleasant ones under "this is why...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Favorite MMO site even madder about the P2E invasion than we are
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for favorite MMO site even madder about the P2E invasion than we are. (We call these...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022
2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...
Rumor: Life is Feudal MMO might be making a comeback, with a sequel in the works
The medieval sandbox MMORPG Life is Feudal died something of a slow death, first with a January 2021 sunset followed by an October 2022...
US Senator calls out Steam’s lax moderation of neo-Nazis and hate
The fact that Steam is extremely hands-off in regard to moderation isn't really news. Readers will recall it was referenced in a video report...
