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The Stream Team: In Star Trek Online’s Eye of the Storm
While Massively OP's MJ is disappointed that the newest episode in Star Trek' Online's story arc revealed a juicy spoiler up front, she's still...
Stick and Rudder: Venturing into EVE Online’s nullsec
EVE Online is a game that offers many experiences, from NPC faction warfare to harvesting, refining, and building to market speculation. But the one...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 390: All systems go for MMO launches
Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen's crowdfunding, Wrath Classic's launch, Dual Universe, Mythic, Ultima Online's 25th birthday, Tibia, and LOTRO Before the Shadow, with adventures in SWG Legends and Truck Simulator, plus a voicemail topic on MMO systems proliferated across the genre.
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs push players through different content types?
MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an interesting question about wildly different content types and the MMOs that either nudge or force...
Global Chat: Warming up to story-driven MMORPGs
Do you play MMOs for the narrative or ignore the story altogether? There's a sharp line dividing the community on this issue, but MMO...
One Shots: Postcards from the galactic rim
While most of you toil and adventure away in the gravity well of a single planet, some daring MMOstronauts (is that a term? It...
Star Citizen introduces its new localization team and talks about improving Siege of Orison
Star Citizen has a localization team. That might not sound like anything major on its face, but when one considers that the game has...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO Kickstarters that let us down
MOP's Chris penned a solid piece earlier this week about the fate that has apparently befallen Destiny's Sword, and as I was editing it,...
Vague Patch Notes: The perpetual MMO crowdfunding engine
Do me a favor right now and navigate over to the Star Citizen webpage. It's possible that this has wildly changed in the time...
The Stream Team: Tracking the Thargoid incursion in Elite Dangerous
MOP's Chris is heading back into the galaxy of Elite: Dangerous for one very important reason: aliens. Specifically, the Thargoids, who have been attacking...
Perfect Ten: 10 strategies to avoid getting fleeced in F2P MMOs
"Nothing is ever truly free," my grizzled Uncle Trigger once told me. "So you got to pay for that there air! Pony up, boy!"
While...
Star Citizen’s total crowdfunding just hit over half a billion dollars
What can $500M get you? In the case of Star Citizen, more development coals shoveled into the fires of Chris Roberts' vision: The game's...
Stick and Rudder: ‘Robin Hood’ scammer claims he robbed rich EVE Online corp of $100 billion ISK
EVE Online is a game that will certainly go down in MMO history as one of the most fascinating studies on human behavior to...
The MOP Up: Valheim comes to Microsoft’s store this month
That kooky Norse survival sim Valheim is sending a raiding party to new shores -- in this case, to Microsoft itself. The company announced...
Global Chat: Torchlight Infinite’s infinite challenges
The upcoming Torchlight Infinite is starting to build some positive buzz for this multiplayer ARPG, and Battle Stance was on the scene to check...
Elite Dangerous rolls back a hotfix after it compounds 4.0’s existing stability problems and crashes
The 4.0 update for Elite: Dangerous that went out earlier this week was intended to make the game more stable. It didn't, and a...
Inside Star Citizen grants a look of hull scraping, salvage, and the Drake Vulture in action
Star Citizen has made a lot of noise about the salvaging profession, including the ships, mechanics, and tools that will make that profession work,...
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?
Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...
Elite Dangerous releases its 4.0 codebase update and Aftermath narrative to all PC players today
Today marks an apparent new beginning for PC players of Elite: Dangerous as the promised 4.0 codebase update has been dispatched to players today...
Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date
MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...