Con in Cologne, Germany, usually in August every year.
gamescom
Sea of Thieves extends the Cursed Sails campaign another week, teases open-world skeleton ships
This week's Sea of Thieves patch is... well, it's kinda more of the same, as Rare has extended the Cursed Sails run another week,...
Jagex gets into games publishing while RuneScape crosses $1 billion earned
Jagex isn't content to be "just the RuneScape studio" these days. The company announced today that it is preparing to move into the publishing...
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
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...
Hearthstone shines a light on Global Games stats
All hail the Czech Republic! C-Z-E-C-H! That spells victory!
Blizzard is toasting players from the republic for their performance at the recent Hearthstone Global Games...
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts is ‘fed up’ with giving 3.0 release estimates
Eurogamer's Chris Roberts interview covers why the alpha 3.0 is more like early access than beta, how making games has changed in the era of crowdfunding, and why he's tired of giving out 3.0 launch estimates - even when he's being called a liar by detractors.
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...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 10M sold
This year's online juggernaut is not, surprisingly enough, anything made by Valve, Blizzard, or Riot, but instead one stemmed from the mind of a...
Star Citizen counts the 3.0 bugs it’s quashed and the toilets on the Origin 600i
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is more or less a recap of Gamescom and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the chaos behind the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 133: Gaming Gamescom
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, sunsets for Ghost in the Shell Online and SkySaga, Closers, ArcheAge 4.0, Star Citizen's Gamescom demo, SWTOR, and WoW Argus, with mailbag questions on Marvel Heroes and MMORPGs as a drug, plus a PAX West preview.
Microsoft encourages industry to talk about crossplay cooperation
If games industry giants can be seen as extremely territorial siblings, each jealously guarding his or her own possessions and unwilling to work with...
World of Warships yanks lackluster Graf Zeppelin, offers apology and refunds
In its effort to rush a new aircraft carrier to the game in time for this past week's Gamescom, Wargaming might have done World...
Gamescom 2017: Crowfall soars with its cinematic trailer
Noble heroes? More like scavengers in truth. That's the bottom line for player characters in Crowfall, as spelled out in the MMO's Gamescom trailer.
In...
Gamescom 2017: Star Citizen demos ‘real-time, player-driven facial animation’
If you skipped out on the Star Citizen Gamescom presentation, you missed out on some pretty good stuff. You also missed out on an...
Bring your own popcorn to the Gamescom Star Citizen stream
The capstone to Star Citizen's Gamescom hoopla is slated for this afternoon at 3 p.m. EDT, when Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts takes the stage...
Gamescom 2017: Destiny 2’s European dead zone and Rolling Stone interview
Destiny 2's European dead zone sure sounds festive, right? Well, it looks pretty, anyway. Bungie revealed the open world environ in a new video...
Gamescom 2017: ARK Survival Evolved’s launch trailer has otters
No more delays: ARK Survival Evolved launches next week on August 29th, and Studio Wildcard brought a trailer to Gamescom to razzle-dazzle the dino-loving audience. It's...
Gamescom 2017: Star Citizen goes in-depth on the alpha 3.0 delay issues
With the high drama and surly community demanding Star Citizen 3.0 already, it's made for a slightly awkward Gamescom appearance for the crew.
On the...
Gamescom 2017: Sea of Thieves enthuses about its crossplay possibilities
Little did most Sea of Thieves Xbox One testers know, but there were turncoats in their midst. With the revelation this week that Rare is...
Gamescom 2017: Star Citizen confirms survival mechanics, rolls out ship profiles
Cloud Imperium has continued its relentless Star Citizen streams from Gamescom all week, causing the usual sideshow drama over whether the 3.0 build on display...
