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Choose My Adventure: A slow, steady, and informational search for Artemis in No Man’s Sky
I think I appreciate why last week’s voting had me follow the Artemis path, as this past week felt a bit like more tutorial...
Massively Overthinking: Doing crimes and getting punished in MMORPGs
A couple of weeks before Dual Universe's snafu banning beta players for taking advantage of a developer's poorly permissioned structure, I saw the game's...
No Man’s Sky: Next Generation brings the game to next-gen consoles, graphical upgrades for all
Back in September, No Man's Sky studio Hello Games revealed Origins as merely "the beginning of something new." Now that the update is well...
Global Chat: Which MMO has the best Halloween?
That's a really good question! While pretty much every MMO has some sort of autumn/harvest/Halloween event going on this month, there are a few...
Massively Uplifting: Shattering mental health and disability stereotypes while increasing gaming inclusivity
Back to school? That quintessential September mantra may not be a given for everyone this year. However, what is still a given is the...
No Man’s Sky adds new planets, biomes, creatures, weather, locations, and items in today’s Origins update
Yes, that headline has a lot of things broken up by a lot of commas, but it should effectively illustrate the number of things...
No Man’s Sky teases ‘the beginning of something new’: New update Origins, launching next week
No Man's Sky studio Hello Games has a bit of a habit of casually announcing major expansions out of the blue and crashing its...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs I was very wrong about
Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually...
Vague Patch Notes: No Man’s Sky is the real reboot success story
Whenever an MMO of any type has a launch that resembles the Nedelin catastrophe, people start talking about what the studio should do to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 280: Middle-earth practices social distancing
Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.
No Man’s Sky touts an uptick in player numbers thanks to cross-play and Xbox Game Pass release
Man, it's almost like letting people play games with one another regardless of their chosen platform is good business. Hello Games' Sean Murray has...
No Man’s Sky Desolation is live, sending players to explore spooky derelict ships
No Man's Sky's Desolation update 2.6 is live today, and where do we even begin? The patch notes are short, but there's a ton...
No Man’s Sky impements full PC and console crossplay starting tomorrow
When Hello Games announces new stuff for No Man's Sky, two things are usually true: They're huge, and they're soon. And today's announcement from...
One Shots: Posing is half the battle
It's not just enough to tote around a legendary weapon in your MMO -- you're going to need to learn that posing is half...
No Man’s Sky is getting a new Windows 10 version and arrives on Game Pass for Xbox One in June
There's a lot more to recommend No Man's Sky at this point than there was when it first launched, by all estimations. The game has...
Global Chat: Just say ‘no’ to coin weight!
When Pantheon recently announced that it would be adding coin weight to its inventory management system, little did the devs know that they were...
No Man’s Sky just patched in the Exo Mech update, confirming leaked video
You can have plenty of neat stuff in No Man's Sky. You can have your own custom base. You can have a frigate and...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that don’t deserve second chances?
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an interesting question: Is it time for gamers to stop giving second chances to bungled MMOs and live...
No Man’s Sky adds new plants for bases and bobbleheads for spaceships
Space can be a lonely place in No Man's Sky, even if there is a multiplayer hub now. For those spans where you're traveling...
No Man’s Sky’s Living Ship update adds organic, growable, psychedelic starships
It's patch day for No Man's Sky, the game that launched as a not-MMO mess and has pumped out so much epic content in...