interviews
Interviewing the Bless team on the Assassin, merges, PvP, and concurrency as the patch goes live today
Bless Online is rolling out a hefty content update today as promised, including the Siege of Castra PvP battleground, the faction-based open-world Capital War,...
Niantic isn’t ready quite yet to talk about Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Potterheads got all kinds of excited about last November's announcement of a Pokemon Go-style ARG called Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (heck, so did we!)....
How Glitch’s creator kept pulling successes from his online game failures
NPR recently did an interview with Slack and Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield as part of its series on innovators and entrepreneurs. Butterfield's drive to create...
Albion Online’s shift away from mobile was a matter of market forces
If you remember a lot of the early marketing for Albion Online, it focused quite heavily on how the game was going to feature...
World of Warcraft’s creative director asks players to ‘be patient’ regarding the story
Why do people care so much about the story in World of Warcraft, to the point that they are rioting across social media and...
Riot Games continues to tease the possibility of an MMORPG
What is Riot Games up to these days? The League of Legends studio is intentionally stirring up community interest over its future plans, first...
PUBG’s Brendan Greene discusses Steam numbers, Fortnite, and dealing with toxicity
PUBG's Brendan Greene did an interesting interview with RPS last week with some quotes worth highlighting. For starters, he has an interesting take on the...
The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
Previewing Rend: Frostkeep studio visit, early access, PvP, factions, and more
If something goes wrong with Frostkeep's early access launch of Rend, blame me. While I was at the office, I distracted Co-Founders Jeremy Wood and...
The Cycle is a PvEvP ‘shooter with a twist’ that bucks the battle royale trend
Berlin-based studio YAGER recently took the wraps off The Cycle, a "first-person shooter with a twist" that somehow looks a lot like a survival...
No Man’s Sky received death threats over butterflies
On the verge of expanding into a full multiplayer experience, No Man's Sky has rocketed back into the spotlight with July 24th's NEXT update....
Massively Overthinking: What important lessons are MMORPGs failing to impart?
MOP reader and Patron Brett has a burning question about the lessons we're learning (and not learning) from playing MMORPGs.
"In his book Theory of Fun,...
Sea of Thieves’ devs have realized that community comes from not constantly fighting each other
Hey, kids, did you know that players feel more like a community when they're working together rather than constantly fighting one another? Of course...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 178: #womenarecosmetic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Wild West Online, Star Citizen, Defiance 2050, Rend, and Fractured, with a mailbag question on in-game conflict resolution and a special interview on Blaugust Reborn.
Check out all of the Warframe’s TennoCon 2018 videos
If you missed out on the glory of TennoCon 2018, you can take in most of the Warframe experience thanks to the cache of...
Interview and excerpt: The ‘Braving Britannia’ book preserves Ultima Online’s oral history
Earlier this week, we wrote about the launch of a new book that's right up MMORPG fans' alley. Dubbed Braving Britannia: Tales of Life,...
Interviewing Frostkeep’s CEO as Rend announces July 31 early access
Are you looking for a new way to survive? It's coming. We've watched as Rend wandered down its closed alpha path since May, but...
Interview: ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman on prepping Crowfall’s Artisan Engine for the broader industry
Yesterday, Crowfall studio ArtCraft announced it was spinning off a brand-new company dubbed ArtCraft Technologies that would basically turn Crowfall's engine into a marketable...
New Ultima Online book gathers developer and player interviews to document oral history
Old-school MMORPG players, heads-up for you: If you're a fan of Ultima Online or wanted to hear more about the seminal MMORPG after reading...
TennoCon 2018: Why Warframe will never launch (and why that doesn’t matter)
There's a question that floats around our Massively OP office discussions occasionally, especially when updating which game is labeled what: Will Warframe ever launch?...
