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Massively OP’s 2017 Blooper Awards: Best MMO crosspromotion
Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Best MMO crosspromotion. And the winner is...
Final Fantasy XIV's Stormblood blood drive
This is the...
The Crew 2 has been delayed deeper into 2018
We've known Ubisoft was working on a sequel to driving MMO The Crew since this past spring, when the company confirmed what it would...
Monster Hunter World’s first console beta event is slated for this weekend
You have nothing to do but play video games this weekend, right? No crushing holiday shopping you should be getting a jump on? Great...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Game devs react angrily to ESA’s support of government tax proposal
Last week, the Entertainment Software Association, the video game trade association you probably know best from its stewardship of E3, released a contentious statement...
Elder Scrolls Online kicks off ‘#10MillionStories’ campaign in honor of 10M players
Back at E3, the ZeniMax Elder Scrolls Online team announced that it had accumulated 10 million unique players since its original launch in 2014 -...
Grab a Total War: ARENA closed beta key from Wargaming and MOP
At the tail end of last year, Wargaming's then-new publishing label, Wargaming Alliance, announced it was picking up SEGA's Total War: ARENA, a "free-to-play,...
The Game Archaeologist: Climax’s Warhammer Online
Let's begin with a little personal history. Back in 2008, I decided to get into the blogging scene by jumping on board the latest...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West
PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...
CCP’s VR sports game Sparc has arrived on PSVR today
Remember CCP's multiplayer VR sports sim Sparc? We first heard about it back in February, and now as planned, the Icelandic studio known best for...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history
After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...
The Stream Team: Dabbling in the Dauntless alpha
The Dauntless alpha started yesterday, and thanks to server issues, Massively OP's MJ had difficulty getting in. But today she is determined to check...
Dauntless’ founder alpha has begun
Don't miss our hands-on with Dauntless from E3!We've been keeping an eye on Dauntless, the sci-fantasy online co-op action RPG from the former BioWare,...
Ubisoft on Skull and Bones’ business model, ‘treasure chest’ lootboxes, and live events
If you thought that Ubisoft's Skull and Bones pirate MMO wasn't going to have lootboxes, seriously, what rock are you living under? (And is...
Anthem lead gameplay designer Corey Gaspur passes away
The official BioWare blog announced last night that Anthem lead gameplay designer Corey Gaspur has passed away. Gaspur had been a staple of the studio...
CCP’s VR sports game Sparc launches August 29
First announced back in February, CCP's multiplayer VR sports sim Sparc was all set for a summer launch as of E3, and now the date...
Path of Exile’s Fall of Oriath has just begun Xbox One beta
Path of Exile's Fall of Oriath expansion arrives August 4 - check out the release trailer and prepare for the microtransaction system tomorrow!
Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago is pretty much a trainwreck
If you've ever been to a massive gathering of tech-savvy people -- like say, a gaming convention -- you know better than to rely...
Path of Exile’s Fall of Oriath expansion arrives August 4
Path of Exile's Fall of Oriath expansion arrives August 4 - check out the release trailer and prepare for the microtransaction system tomorrow!
Absolver begins PC and PS4 preorders ahead of August 29 launch
Absolver came out of nowhere last year, not quite an MMO but with a lot of the stock online multiplayer RPG trappings, with a...
