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Sci-fi horror title The Callisto Protocol is confirmed as a ‘narrative experience’ tied to PUBG
We've covered a few occasions where the decidedly plotless battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was trying to build up some lore and backstory for...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in...
The MOP Up: Crossout drives onto an island
Here's a useful tip from Crossout: It's dangerous to drive your car in water! This comes from the game's newest "Clean Island" patch, which...
A Secret World Legends fan has created a huge (free!) graphic novel based on the lore
There is no doubt that Secret World Legends (and its predecessor) have developed a strong cult following in the MMORPG community due to its...
Amazon’s New World demo: Fishing, Reekwater, and hands-on havoc
It's certainly been rough seas for Amazon's upcoming New World over the past year -- especially with a significant change of development direction for...
The Stream Team: Crystal Lake camping for Friday the 13th: The Game
It's Massively OP's MJ's favorite day! And now she has the perfect game to celebrate it in. For Friday the 13th, she'll be camping...
Zombie MMO Dead Frontier 2 swells and grows after its early access launch
Ever since it morphed into an open world MMO earlier this year, Dead Frontier 2 had our attention as a developing title. But how...
The Stream Team: Soaking up Samhain in Secret World Legends
The Secret World used to be synonymous with Halloween; nobody did the holiday better than TSW in its prime. Thankfully, Secret World Legends still...
Vampire the Masquerade sinks its teeth into the battle royale genre
Ask yourself: What is really missing from the battle royale genre at this point? If your non-sarcastic answer is "a hard-R splatterfest with horror's...
One Shots: Cooking with arsenic
In the apocalypse, cooking shows are a lot weirder -- and deadlier. But just because your co-host accidentally drank that bubbling green liquid and...
The Scream Team: Finding ghosts in Phasmophobia
What's better than a ghost hunt for Halloween? Not much! And since her favorite genre is horror, Massively OP's MJ has found a perfect...
The Yellow King has introduced hardcore mode, Mac and Linux versions, and a new dungeon
Back in February of this year, we reported on the early access release of The Yellow King, a self-described Lovecraftian horror rogue-lite MMO. We...
Vague Patch Notes: The wax and wane of MMOs and genres
I started writing for Massively-that-was in October of 2009. That was 11 years ago. Oh... oh my word, no, that was so long ago....
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...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO does the creepiest Halloween?
While pretty much every MMORPG out there right now is running some sort of harvest or Halloween event, usually you get the same angle....
Global Chat: Comparing SWTOR’s and Star Wars Squadrons’ space battles
With Star Wars Squadrons now on the scene, a comparison between that game and SWTOR's galactic starfighter content was all but inevitable.
MMO blog Galactic...
Secret World Legends offers up public raids and daily login rewards for Samhain 2020
The Halloween season is especially near and dear to Secret World Legends' heart, what with its whole vibe of Anima-powered people taking on literal...
Choose My Adventure: Remnant From the Ashes is the action shooter MMO I didn’t know I wanted
I miss out on a lot of games. It happens. It’s bound to happen. There are likely countless numbers of titles that escape my...
The Game Archaeologist: Deadlands Legends, the western MMO that never saw the light of day
The saying goes that there is nothing new under the sun. So while you probably can't write an original setting that's never been seen...
Secret World player publishes fifth ‘unofficial’ novel
For Secret World Legends fans, one truth is pretty evident: They're not getting any new stories in the game -- at least, any time...
