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As of today, Closers Online is, um, closed in Japan. SEGA has shut down the game's servers and is handing all operations of the...

Lockboxes have become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Last month, both our writers and readers crowned SWTOR worst business model of...

It's the holiday season here in the US, but in Japan it's just another weekend. Only it's not just another weekend; it's the weekend...

In celebration of the launch of mobile dino MMO Durango's Android beta, Nexon has granted Massively OP a bundle of keys to get you...

A new research study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers Justin Munafo, Meg Diedrick, and Thomas A. Stoffregen says that head-mounted virtual reality is unintentionally...

Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...

Remember The Video Game Debate? The game research book edited by Thorsten Quandt and Rachel Kowert, the latter of whom we've been covering here since Massively-that-was? Good....

If you've been away from Final Fantasy XIV, perhaps December is the month when you'd like to give it another try. Really, what else...

Yesterday brought the first hints of upcoming testing for mobile dinosaur survival game Durango, but today brings even more. Nexon has opened up signups...

Pokemon Go has received some large updates recently: the buddy system, medals, some big gym changes (twice), and now we've got dailies. We've been dazzled...

In keeping loose tabs on responses to various games in the comments section here on Massively OP, I do see some remarks that seem...

Could Black Desert look and perform even better than it does right now? Pearl Abyss thinks so, as the studio has signed a "memorandum of...

Nexon's third quarter financial report is out this week, and the company is calling it a "solid" one, with revenues boosted higher than expected...

Shadowverse might not have the street recognition in the west that, say, Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone does, but over in Japan the digital...

Kotaku has reported another death associated with Pokemon Go. Citing an article in Japanese-language Livedoor, the site says that a truck driver in Aichi...

First things first. If you missed this before, I already did put together my thoughts about what little we know of Final Fantasy XIV's...

Being at the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival was interesting for me on several levels because I wasn't just there to have fun, I...

If you've played MMORPGs long enough, you've probably been to at least one in-game wedding -- maybe even one for your own character. But...

Although Pokemon Go isn't advertised as an MMO, both experts and players have noted it does present some interesting similarities: Both have tons of players on servers...

Let's stop fussing over what Pokemon Go is being dragged into court over and focus on something it's apparently, if inadvertently, doing right: suicide...