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The controversy over the sudden split between Destiny 2 developer Bungie and longtime publishing partner Activision continues with the announcement that "global investor rights...

Since last week's revelation that Activision and Bungie were parting ways and sending Destiny home to live with its real dad - oh yeah,...

Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...

Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.

Following last week's announcement that Bungie would be cutting its business ties with Activision and taking sole control of Destiny 2, fans and players...

Two days ago, Activision and Bungie announced an early split of their long-running partnership, a split that transferred publishing rights for the franchise back...

Still more big changes are afoot at Activision: Bungie just announced that Activision is transferring publishing rights for Destiny back to Bungie. "We have enjoyed...

Say you're the developer of an online shooter, but you really want to add something that challenges the players in a world where they...

A couple of years ago, several key devs who once built MMOs for Cryptic - Craig Zinkievich, Shannon Posniewski, and Matt Highison - announced...

Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for weirdest MMO cross promotion. And the winner is...

Every other week here at Massively OP you might see a post go up promoting the Battle Bards podcast. While not an official podcast...

This week's Around the Verse does touch on the 3.4 release of Star Citizen, but the big news is definitely from Squadron 42, which...

I did a little double-take when I read SuperData's November 2018 games industry revenue ranking piece today, and not because the title and intro...

We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...

As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.

November is drawing to a close, and as we usher in a new month, Destiny 2 will be welcoming the Season of the Forge,...

Surprising absolutely no one, Red Dead Redemption 2 killed it (and the horse it rode in on) in October. According to SuperData's digital games...

Hello, readers! It's pre-holiday-shopping-season sale time again, and our sales team has put together a selection of artisanal hand-crafted MMOs and not-so-MMOs for the...

Is it just me, or does "refer your friend to the game and get stuff" sort of undercut the idea that the most fun...

Players certainly seem to have been happy with Destiny 2: Forsaken, which many players have cited as a similar update in nature to the...