harry potter

Earlier this week, Niantic announced its next location-based game coming to some countries later this month: Peridot. It's about finding and raising virtual pets...

If you're still mourning the January death of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, don't worry: The franchise has yet another multiplayer wizarding world mobile title...

I think a lot of us sport a wide range of opinions on free-to-play business models, particularly depending on the way it's applied to...

This month has been a bittersweet one for players of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, as the mobile ARG announced last November that it would...

There's a whole raft of "could've been" MMORPG projects that litter the past couple of decades, titles that went through some development but ultimately...

It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...

You do get the sense that KingsIsle once had very grand plans for what is called its "101 Universe." After Wizard101 came out to...

It's been about a month since Pikmin Bloom was released, and anecdotally, I've noticed social media and real-world communities dying off. But it feels...

Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.

Remember how Niantic recently shut down Catan: World Explorers? Well, it's happening again, and this time to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, on January 31st,...

For this week’s episode, the Battle Bards turn their attention to an oft-neglected realm of MMO music — that of mobile titles. Will Steff...

Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...

As an MMO historian, I have to applaud the work of former SOE developer Shawn Lord in his huge interview series with the people...

All right, MOP readers, every discussion up to this one has been a warm-up to the main event. Wake up, swig that energy juice,...

Those that choose to dive in deep with an alternate reality game should expect to walk (and drive) an awful lot. And all of...

It remains to be seen how big or relevant E3 is going to be this year, but there certainly is interest in which studios...

So, Nintendo and Niantic will work together for more AR games based on Nintendo IPs. No great surprise from me, as I'd mentioned years...

Just because the devs think you're going to play the game one way doesn't mean that players aren't going to pour a whole lot...

So there's a thing going around the MOP virtual offices lately: Elite Dangerous hype. Between Chris and Ben especially, the excitement for Odyssey is...

By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...