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All the big MMO and multiplayer news from The Game Awards 2024
If you watched the 10th annual Game Awards tonight - perhaps alongside Chris and MJ - then you probably don't need this post. But...
MMO Hype Train: My growing obsession with Stars Reach
As much as I respect Raph Koster for all of his passion and pioneering of MMORPGs, I've rarely crossed paths with his games, notably...
No Man’s Sky is running a relaxed ‘redux’ expedition set for the holiday season
Feeling a bit stressed and frazzled about the upcoming craziness of December as you fall further behind on gaming projects for the year? No...
Perfect Ten: Lessons from unsuccessful MMORPGs that I wish designers would learn
I have been writing about this genre for far too long now and seen far too many games with genuinely good elements completely fail...
No Man’s Sky is adding full multi-platform cross-saves, a PS5 Pro edition, and an old Mass Effect ship
Whenever Hello Games' Sean Murray starts dropping teasers on social media, you know something good is coming to No Man's Sky: Today, the studio...
No Man’s Sky launches its spoopy 16th expedition, The Cursed, just in time for Halloween
Well now this is a treat: While most MMOs have a Halloween event these days, it's not quite as common to get an entire...
The Daily Grind: Which upcoming MMOs do you hope will be released next year?
The other day, for some random reason, I was reminded that Hello Games announced Light No Fire late last year, got us all hot...
No Man’s Sky’s soundtrack is on the bill for a November 4 charitable games music concert
If you can travel to the Electric Theatre in Guilford, UK, like the music out of No Man's Sky, and are looking to help...
Massively Overthinking: When the big five MMORPGs have five big expansions in the same year
By the time you're reading this article, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light Seoul has officially launched on PC, and it marks an...
No Man’s Sky’s Aquarius expedition is here with fishing, diving, and skiffs
You're 'bout to have that Aquarius song from Hair stuck in your head for a few days, and I'm sure Hello Games is sorry...
Global Chat: Recapping World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix
With Pandaria Remix now officially over and done in World of Warcraft, it's time to move on... right after some post-mortem analysis, of course....
Snail Games reveals For The Stars, a sprawling new multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox
Snail Games has just unveiled a brand-new AAA MMO, not that it's calling it an MMO: For The Stars is being billed by Snail...
Global Chat: Reporting from the land of Throne and Liberty
Heartless Gamer put down a whole lot of thoughts about the recent Throne and Liberty global beta, saying that while the MMO has plenty...
One Shots: Retrofuturism for rent
Here's your two-step process to make anything old look all futurey like something out of the Jetstons. Step one: Take a normal thing. Step...
Massively Overthinking: How much research do you do before playing a new MMORPG?
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I discussed our experiences in No Man's Sky (again), and both of us came to the conclusion...
The No Man’s Sky Worlds ‘universe refresh’ is why you’re playing No Man’s Sky this weekend
You know that whenever Hello Games and Sean Murray start dropping cryptic teasers so they'll trend on Reddit, a new No Man's Sky update...
No Man’s Sky’s Adrift expedition offers a lonely and hostile ‘alternative universe’
No Man's Sky has spent years shoring up its MMO bona fides, and now, it's doing the opposite with today's Adrift update, which shrinks...
The Daily Grind: What does your ideal space sim MMO look like?
Even a quarter-century into the MMORPG revolution, we still haven't seen an interstellar MMO that really fits what I'm seeking in a space sim....
The Stream Team: A first foray into Planet Crafter multiplayer
Massively OP's MJ definitely loves sandbox games where she can terraform the land somewhat. But what about when the entire premise of a game...
Planet Crafter is a new multiplayer survival sandbox where you geo-engineer an entire planet
Last week, multiplayer survival sandbox were treated to yet another entry in the field: Planet Crafter, a game I've had on my own wishlist...
