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Elite Dangerous will revamp the newbie experience in September, add fleet carriers in December
Fresh outta Gamescom is the news that Elite Dangerous is cooking up multiple updates for commanders across the galaxy.
First up: the September Update. Launching...
Meta: Join us for Massively OP’s first Mo Mania stream-athon on Friday, August 23!
Mo Mania? You might be wondering just what exactly that odd entry on the OPTV stream calendar for tomorrow is. That's what we're here...
The next leg of EVE Online’s World Tour is tomorrow – in a player’s living room in Finland
If you ever visit my place, I have a few simple rules. First, please bring crunchy snacks. Second, understand that I will give very...
YouTuber examines the quit rate for EVE Online CSM members – and why they bail
In the comments of our Daily Grind on voting for MMO player councils earlier this week, Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob pointed me...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that flirted with permadeath
This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...
Neverwinter, Champions Online, and Star Trek Online end XMPP chat client support
In an effort to reportedly take on the ever-encroaching menace that is gold selling spammers, outside chat client support powered by XMPP will be...
The Daily Grind: Do you vote in MMO player elections?
This week I spent a bit of time perusing the Star Wars Galaxies Legends Discord, where candidates for the player Senate are making stump...
EVE Online wraps up Aether Wars 2, plans week of GM-led events
This past weekend, EVE Online's second round of the Aether Wars tech demo took place as CCP and Hadean put the improved tech to...
The Daily Grind: What’s a neat MMO mechanic that nobody’s trying anymore?
A few weeks back, I was thinking about classic Star Wars Galaxies and the game's training system. While you could gain experience by doing...
EVE Online prepares for phase two of the Aether Wars tech demo and plans chaos for cyno fields
Things are getting more active in the world of EVE Online on a couple of different fronts. Specifically, the next phase of the Aether...
RSI plays with particle effects in this week’s Inside Star Citizen video digest
Special effects are pretty important in video games and especially in a sci-fi world of undeveloped technology. The folks at Star Citizen seem to...
EVE Online’s August patch adds community fittings and enforced peace changes
It can be really hard to get started and figure out how to set up your ships in EVE Online. We can definitely understand...
EVE Online is on track to set a new world record for largest video game battle
Truly large-scale battles don't come about by sheer accident; they take a lot of planning and coordination to make happen -- especially if you...
One Shots: The secret life of NPCs
What goes on with NPCs when you're not looking? Egocentric adventurers think that they're sitting around, sharpening blades, and preparing their spellbooks for encounters,...
Star Trek Online players play with numbers to crack lockbox drop rates
While plenty of online games with lockboxes already have transparent lockboxes and far more are due to get them over the next year thanks...
Inside Star Citizen shows off NPC outfits, harvesting, the Vanu Defender, and the lower decks of the 890 Jump
Star Citizen's latest video roundup managed to cram a fair number of updates owing to a quick "sprint report" segment that briefed players on...
The Enclave Interstellar Initiative wraps up in Elite: Dangerous
The latest Elite: Dangerous Interstellar Initiative, which are those strings of in-game events that end up with some sort of promised galaxy-affecting change, has...
Star Trek Online’s nerf to Advanced Beam Arrays causes a community uproar
All right, so this one is going to take some explanation. The latest update to Star Trek Online has arrived along with the patch...
EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile edition EVE Echoes hits alpha later this month
EVE Online is taking another step closer to mobile with EVE Echoes: Infinite Galaxy Mobile (yes, we know that's confusing!), which CCP and NetEase...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 232: Girl Dwarves rock our world
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, Skyforge, City of Heroes, SWG Legends, and Marvel Heroes.