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One Shots: Welcome to the spider level!
Welcome, welcome, come on in, make sure that nobody's left behind. Do we have the full tour group? Good. Ladies and gents, welcome to...
Star Citizen debuts the RSI Lynx luxury rover and the Tumbril Storm tank
Star Citizen promised that its Invictus Launch Week would be full of reveals, and with the current showcase featuring Tumbril and RSI vehicles, it...
Perfect Ten: 10 old MMO promises that never happened
Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...
Embracer Group (Gearbox/Cryptic) stock nose-dives after implosion of $2B business deal
Swedish corporation Embracer Group became a big name in the MMO industry a few years ago when it bought out Perfect World Entertainment's western...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online comes Unraveled
It's time for Star Trek Online to come Unraveled! This newest story arc starts with the Wish Upon a Star Episode, and Massively OP's...
Dual Universe outlines improvements coming to its Lua scripting language in Update 1.4
Regular players of the sci-fi building sandbox Dual Universe are likely familiar with the Lua scripting language that lets players make a variety of...
LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again
Weren't we just here?
I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...
Star Citizen debuts the new Mirai Fury scramble fighter in latest video
Last week, Star Citizen pulled the curtain back on a new ship manufacturer by the name of Mirai, which is the "performance brand" of...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
Elite Dangerous’ latest patch applies further bug fixes and better reflects when the Thargoids are beaten
Claiming victory against the Thargoid incursion of any given system in Elite: Dangerous may not have been quite as clear-cut as players would like,...
Whatever happened to Star Citizen’s Squadron 42? Well, you can’t buy it right now
When we wrote about Star Citizen's alpha 3.19 release, a couple of our readers pointed out in the comments that the pledge/purchase button for...
Star Citizen alpha 3.19 launches with mining and salvage updates, new tutorial, and new PvP event
The self-described Call to Adventure is being sung by Star Citizen, which serves as the subtitle for the newly released alpha 3.19 build, which...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
Star Citizen continues to move alpha 3.19 through public testing and shows off its latest in-game tutorial
The next phase of Star Citizen's ever-lengthening alpha test is nearly here as CIG continues its testing of alpha 3.19 on the public test...
The Daily Grind: When has an ‘improvement’ in an MMO made it much worse?
I haven't taken any German since college, but I did recently learn a new word: verschlimmbesserung, which essentially translates to "disimprovement" - specifically, an...
One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?
So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...
EVE Online has suffered chat outages all week (and they’re still happening)
Hello, EVE Online? It's us, your friends and family. We're knocking on your door because we just want to talk... but no one can...
Star Citizen Live talks up a new ship manufacturer and alpha 3.20’s new derelict settlements
Once again, Star Citizen is using its regular weekly video digest to peer farther into the horizon before alpha 3.19 and alpha 3.20 even...
Global Chat: How do you play older MMOs?
It's always a challenge -- sometimes an insurmountable one -- when you jump into older MMORPGs after being conditioned by modern experiences. To help...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2023: Black Desert and EVE Online revenues continue to decline
Pearl Abyss' flurry of promotion and trailer drops this week might have been an early clue that its Q1 wasn't looking so hot, and...