GDC’s State of the Game Industry: NFTs, the metaverse, and more than half of game devs want to unionize
Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...
TERA is apparently sunsetting its Japanese servers in April
Bad news for TERA players, at least those who played on the Japanese servers: The game is closing down in that region in April.
The...
Soulforged is a minimalist browser-based multiplayer RPG about managing action points and survival
This genre has all kinds of surprises hiding around the corner. Take for example the game Soulforged, a truly distinct multiplayer RPG currently in...
Massively on the Go: How to fix Pokemon Go’s longstanding player safety failures
This article is part four of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go actually nerfed its own support rather than help players
This article is part three of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Massively on the Go: How Pokemon Go support fails MMOARG stalking victims
This article is part two of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Massively on the Go: How Niantic evades handling stalking and harassment in Pokemon Go and other ARGs
This article is part one of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2021
Every year, we give a nod to the biggest MMO story, but in 365 days, a whole lot more happened than just one narrative....
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year's MMORPG predictions didn't exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren't really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did....
Bobby Kotick considers leaving Activision-Blizzard if he can’t quickly fix its ongoing frat boy culture
Last week, reporting from the Wall Street Journal blew the lid off of fresh allegations leveraged at Activision-Blizzard, including attempts by CEO Bobby Kotick...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2 pulls back the curtain on narrative design
Guild Wars 2 Associate Narrative Director Bobby Stein has an interesting essay up about "shepherding stories" for the MMO with a focus on diverse...
Elysium Lost is out now for iOS and Android mobile devices
Finally, there's an MMORPG out for your iOS or Android mobile devices. What's that, you say? You already have those? Well, Elysium Lost is still...
Project D is Nexon’s new squad-based multiplayer shooter headed to a December alpha in Korea
Nexon has a whole lot of irons in the fire as we've pointed out before, but what's one more multiplayer online game on the...
The MOP Up: Valve’s Steam Deck gets delayed to 2022
Bad news for those among you who were hoping to play some MMOs on Valve's Steam Deck this holiday season: The company announced that...
Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Vague Patch Notes: NFTs in gaming are a bad, dumb idea
This is going to be a little more ranty than usual. Apologies for that in advance, but... well, we're talking about NFTs. NFTs are...
Lineage W hires actor Kit Harington to promote the mobile MMO’s launch
Using real-world actors and celebrities to promote an MMO is definitely nothing new, since it can bring a lot of attention or even a...
Rappelz has made its way to iOS and Android devices in a recently released mobile version
Here's a game title we haven't heard from in a while, at least not since April when it decided to join in on the...
Jagex will publish indie RuneScape spinoff called Melvor Idle
Remember back in January when we covered Melvor Idle, an idle game fan project that was overtly inspired by RuneScape? Well, here's a batch...
Lost Light is a survival shooter for Android devices and PC currently in soft launch
Look at that, there's another survival shooter floating around out there! This one is called Lost Light and it comes to us from developer...
