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EA quarterly financials: Anthem due March 2019, record profits, and lockbox-gambling denialism
EA's quarterly financial report and investor call turned out to be a doozy this year with quite a bit of useful news. To wit:
BioWare's...
Niantic stages a second attempt at a summer Chicago Pokemon Go Fest after settling class-action lawsuit
It's no exaggeration to say that last year's Pokemon Go Fest was a complete and total disaster. It made a ton of money -...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Update 5.9 concludes the traitor storyline in classic style
May the fourth be with you, Massively OP readers. I hope you are having a wonderful unofficial Star Wars holiday. And if you're thinking...
The 2015 ArcheAge class action lawsuit continues, snarled in arbitration appeals
Waaaay back in 2015, a group of ArcheAge players filed a lawsuit against Trion Worlds over the Patron perk mess. Veteran MMO players will...
Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
Hyperspace Beacon: So SWTOR’s Update 5.8 happened
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched the delayed Update 5.8: Command Authority to the servers. BioWare now offers its first complete operation since...
Massively Overthinking: The war on MMO chat toxicity
This week, The Ancient Gaming Noob posted up an image of RIFT Prime, where Trion asks people to... play nice. "Just a neighborly reminder...
SuperData says VR has ‘nowhere to go but up,’ while HTC VR division sees layoffs and Facebook apologizes for VR shooter demo
SuperData continues to express confidence in the future of virtual reality - however you want to label it. Last week, the analytics firm updated...
The Game Archaeologist: BBS door games
When you think of MMORPGs, I wouldn't blame you if your mind stayed rooted firmly in the past decade or so, perhaps taking a...
Creditors lay claim to nearly $700,000 in Gazillion assets in bankruptcy case
We named the sad death of Marvel Heroes the greatest MMO disappointment of 2017, and it appears it's not even over yet. Redditors noticed that on...
Lockbox roundup: MMO studios on ‘elegant’ lockboxes, legal issues, and the ‘cosmetics only’ angle
You know the lockbox thing is reaching saturation when there are so many things to cover we have to resort to a roundup. Nevertheless,...
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...
The Stream Team: The final KOTFE chapter in SWTOR
It has been quite the journey through SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire for Massively OP's MJ and Larry, and they couldn't have done...
MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate?
Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...
Marvel Heroes dishes out a hefty daily allowance as the game counts down to extinction
Marvel Heroes players are dealing with the fallout of yesterday's announcement that the superhero MMO is being shut down by Disney and will officially...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s CCP Games is gambling with the livelihoods of employees
Last week we broke the story that EVE Online developer CCP Games is backing out of the virtual reality games market, closing its Altanta...
Guild Chat: Dealing with one bad egg in an MMO guild – without breaking the others
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the column through which we all band together to help a reader in need solve their...
Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre
I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...
Fractured introduces its complex horizontal leveling system
Since this past summer, we've had our eye on Fractured, yet another SpatialOS MMO on the way to hard drives everywhere. If it’s not on...
