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Niantic stages a second attempt at a summer Chicago Pokemon Go Fest after settling class-action lawsuit

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It's no exaggeration to say that last year's Pokemon Go Fest was a complete and total disaster. It made a ton of money -...
Hooray.

Conan Exiles is being brought to Asian territories (to the tune of ‘Beauty and the Beast’)

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Korea and Japan are places you can game, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan; Ignoring them is lame. As Conan Exiles moves closer to release, Funcom has revealed...

Enter to win a Neverwinter painted spider mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP!

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To celebrate the arrival of the Lost City of Omu expansion for Neverwinter on console this week, PWE has granted Massively OP 20 Painted Spider mount keys to give...

Impressions of Project Gorgon from an Asheron’s Call player

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It's finally time for me talk about Project Gorgon as a released product. As you might have guessed, I was avoiding the game prior to launch....

Bless Online outlines key changes for its Steam release

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When Bless Online launches on Steam early access next month, the version that western players experience won't be identical to the client that is...

The Soapbox: Three augmented reality game problems (most) MMOs don’t have – and one thing they do so much better

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I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...

The Game Archaeologist: Lineage

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If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...
How does this work? We were barely told.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the horror of the Live Letter

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It's easy to miss one of the worst bits of news about the next Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter because it's tucked in the...

Pokemon Go is mustering players to clean up the planet for Earth Day

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In all my years working for Massively and Massively OP, we've never had enough Earth Day events for a proper roundup. That isn't changing...
ESO Tales of the Dead

Massively Overthinking: How do you maintain your health while binging MMORPGs?

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Kotaku put out a piece this week on how to game without wrecking your body, something that's probably bound to come up in the...

GDC 2018: Yokozuna, big game data, and the future of MMO monetization

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GDC isn't E3. It isn't PAX. It's not even what I think stereotypical gamers can appreciate. But I think the Massively OP crowd is...

GDC 2018: Funcom’s Tor Egil Andersen on Conan Exiles’ early access, launch, and beyond

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My initial impressions of Conan Exiles, written just about a year ago, weren't exactly glowing. While I know not every game I play needs to appeal...

The Game Archaeologist: Shattered Galaxy

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War. War never ends. Especially if it was designed and encouraged to wage forever. One of the most popular computer gaming genres of the late...
DEATH OR LIFE, PICK ONE

Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to the Nintendo Switch… which does not have region locks

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We had really thought that after the never-updated website finally shut down last year we would be done talking about Phantasy Star Online 2,...
Classy.

Final Fantasy XI finishes off its new Dynamis areas with Jeuno

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The final round of content for the Dynamis - Divergence maps is arriving in Final Fantasy XI in March, and to the surprise of...

Taking a tour of the global Monster Hunter World community on PS4

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While I'm not nearly the hardcore veteran our illustrious hunter Matt Daniel is, I can at least admit to physically living among the Japanese hunting...

Perfect Ten: The top 10 sexiest monsters of Monster Hunter World

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I remember my first time. Unlike many hunters, I didn't stalk her. In fact, she bumped into me. I was just strolling down the...

Nexon sees huge increase in revenue, splits stock

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Things are looking pretty rosy for Nexon as the studio posted its Q4 2017 financials. Revenue and profit both shot up compared to the...

Bless Online interview: Soft launch plans, why Gamigo bowed out, and avoiding pay-to-win

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Bless Online is one of the biggest MMORPGs we're expecting to launch in the west in 2018. Over the last six years, we've watched...
COME FIGHT ME

Final Fantasy XIV gets a dazzling centerpiece snow sculpture for the Sapporo Snow Festival

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The storyline for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward was not just about dragoons fighting dragons in snow. But it was prominently about the great wyrm...

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