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Elite Dangerous dates Update 16 for August 1, releases an updated launcher, and halts investigation of some bugs
It's been some time since headlines have come out of the internet spaceship playground of Elite: Dangerous, but this week has seen a few...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs that are worth their dreadful early gameplay
I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...
Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs
'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...
Steam’s Summer Sale 2023 is live through July 13 with deals on FFXIV, GW2, New World, ESO, and more
Valve has revived the traditional Steam summer sale this afternoon, with gobs of good deals running well beyond the 4th of July. Perhaps the...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter buffs its companion healing factor by up to 100%
Neverwinter's medically minded companions received a massive infusion of green numbers this past week, as Cryptic buffed those particular pets by a significant amount.
"We...
Massively Overthinking: When an MMO has everything and so much of it
Last week, when No Man's Sky released its native Mac client, MOP's Chris and I fell into a discussion about the game being so...
Elite Dangerous attacks a wide assortment of bugs plaguing Update 15 in latest patch
It's time once again for Elite: Dangerous to fill in more of the cracks of Update 15. The space sandbox's newest update is primarily...
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...
Whatever happened to Osiris New Dawn, Cinderstone Online, and Magnificent 5?
Welcome back to a fresh edition of Whatever Happened To, the randomly occurring column in which we realize some MMOs have fallen off our...
Elite Dangerous’ latest patch applies further bug fixes and better reflects when the Thargoids are beaten
Claiming victory against the Thargoid incursion of any given system in Elite: Dangerous may not have been quite as clear-cut as players would like,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
Elite Dangerous Update 15 goes live today – here are the patch notes
The time has come for another update to Elite: Dangerous. The 15th update, to be specific, as the Live 4.0/Odyssey edition of the spacefaring...
Elite Dangerous previews Update 15’s new ship tech, new Thargoid foes, and a new ground mission
Earlier this week we learned that Update 15 for Elite: Dangerous would be getting a May 9th release date but we didn't know anything...
Elite Dangerous’ Update 15 is launching May 9, but we still don’t know what’s in it
Players of Elite: Dangerous have mostly known about Update 15 as the one that got pushed back into May, but now Frontier Developments is...
Star Trek Online announces Unraveled, coming to PC May 9, with new episode and TFO
This morning, Cryptic's taken the wraps off Star Trek Online's next big thing in a bit of a low-key announcement: Unraveled.
"In Star Trek Online:...
Elite Dangerous joins a host of science fiction-focused events at the London Science Museum on May 4
May the 4th celebrations are usually aimed at the Star Wars fandom, but this year the London Science Museum will expand them to include...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons New World deserves a second look
If you were one of the many, many players who skipped off New World after giving it an initial try, well, we don't blame...
Elite Dangerous reminds console players not to, uh, delete their legacy accounts to ‘fix’ transfer issues
Yesterday saw the long-awaited return of the account transfer portal that lets console players of Elite: Dangerous shuffle their characters over to the PC...
Elite Dangerous’ console to PC transfer portal has officially re-opened
Console players of Elite: Dangerous who have been patiently waiting for the opportunity to move most of their character details to the PC version...
Elite Dangerous’ console players can finally transfer to PC (again) starting next week
Almost exactly a year ago, Elite Dangerous fans were stunned at the news that not only was Odyssey's console launch delays going to continue...