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Former Diablo and Marvel Heroes boss David Brevik announces Skystone, a new game publishing house
David Brevik has been a fan-favorite in the online gaming world for years. Though probably best known for his founding role on the Diablo...
Massively Overthinking: Canaries in the MMO coal mine
A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, reader Danny posed us such a provocative question that we said right then we were going...
Into the Super-verse: Catching up with the big superhero MMOs
With the weirdness of the quarantine and how it's been impacting game development, I thought it might be a good time to take a...
Massively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase's frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he's...
Fractured hosts its first ‘all-backers access’ test to stress the servers and de-stress you
Come one, come all (buyers) to Fractured! The indie MMO is secure and excited enough in its current alpha build that it feels comfortable...
Indie MMO Starborne accidentally exposes alpha tester contact info in email blast
If you participated in the alpha for indie MMORTS Starborne, you might wanna check your email: Multiple alpha participants are now reporting that they...
Villagers and Heroes has announced its next expansion, called Eclipse
Villagers & Heroes is a staff favorite here on MOP - it took our indie of the year award in 2019, after all. And...
Shroud of the Avatar extends an olive branch to Chronicles of Elyria’s community
With this week's announcement of the collapse of Chronicles of Elyria's studio and development, you can bet that there are a whole lot of...
Co-op RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff is too much stuff for you to handle
Besides having a name that is giving our editor conniptions, Swords 'n Magic and Stuff is charming fans into opening their wallets for this...
Coronavirus roundup: Blizzard, free APB Reloaded, EA esports, HPWU, and how your PC can help humans win
Feel pretty surreal to be reporting on a global crisis like the coronavirus in our indie pages here on MOP, but it affects everyone...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on funding, development, launch, and business models
Upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia has been somewhat dark over the last year as its developers hunkered down to develop rather than hype. But...
Massively Uplifting: DragonCon announces official charity, more studios support Australian wildfire relief
This past month has been filled with its share of dark news, not the least of which is the coronavirus that is plaguing the...
Google Stadia apparently has offered insufficient incentives for devs on the platform
So why exactly is Stadia - a major platform launched pushed by Google of all the companies in the world - floundering so badly? The...
SuperData and Fortnite studio Epic Games tussle over reported revenue numbers
We've been covering SuperData's monthly reports on the state of the industry for a long time - since before we were MassivelyOP, for that...
Massively Overthinking: What one piece of knowledge would you like to impart to new MMO gamers?
A while back, I was reading on a non-MMO subreddit some comments from some younger people that made my head spin: They were informing...
Spiritwish is shutting down in South Korea on April 1
Well, this is probably not a great sign for a game that just had an update in its localized form. It wouldn't be exactly a...
Minecraft MMORPG Hegemony has been delayed from its weekend launch
We've been covering indie Minecraft MMORPG Hegemony all week, and if you were as intrigued by it as we were, you know it was...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for duoing in 2020?
Appropriate topic for Valentine's Day, right? I mean, sure, you could go get reservations and pay through the nose for expensive dinner along with...
Albion Online now counts 350K monthly active players, plans major alliance changes
We just got some fun numbers on Albion Online, buried in a forum post: Sandbox Interactive says that its massive Queen update in January...
Massively Overthinking: MassivelyOP, five years in
Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...
