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SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19
Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...
Pokemon Go home options expand to cover a refreshed Community Day
Niantic has already been shaking up Pokemon Go so it can function better at home, but changes to coming to the usual monthly Community Day...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s daughter of giants
The countdown is on for Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor. One of the characters that you will bump into in Skyrim is Lyris Titanborn, a...
Massively on the Go: How Pokemon Go is improving without all the ‘go’
We've briefly covered some of Pokemon Go's new changes in light of recent non-fun viral events, and in today's Massively on the Go, I want...
GDC plans summer events as studios from Gamigo to Blizzard to Riot see player surges
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread here in the US and around much of the world, changing life for nearly everyone - even in...
Coronavirus roundup: Blizzard, free APB Reloaded, EA esports, HPWU, and how your PC can help humans win
Feel pretty surreal to be reporting on a global crisis like the coronavirus in our indie pages here on MOP, but it affects everyone...
Coronavirus roundup: EGX Rezzed, Pokemon Go, and using MMOs to learn from home
We're capping off an odd week of coverage here in our little corner of the online gaming world, as even those of us who've...
Coronavirus leads to E3’s cancellation, plus SMITE and Pokemon Go postpone events
Update: The ESA has now made it official. We've included the press release at the end of this article.
If you thought it was strange...
The MOP Up: Fortnite’s players are spending more money than ever
Don't think that the Fortnite craze has settled down quite yet. According to a new survey, player spending in the game is higher than...
Pokemon Go crushed it in 2019, trouncing its 2016 revenues
You folks remember 2016 when Pokemon Go absolutely blew up, right? Made a ton of money, spawned lawsuits and deaths left and right, started...
Massively Uplifting: Gaming studios and communities support kids, trees, cats, STEM, and gaming grandparents
While there are understandably many reasons folks may not want to look back on 2019 fondly, the year wasn't all bad. Massively Uplifting has...
Pokemon Go announces Buddy Adventure features that enhance Buddy Pokemon
Assigning a Pokemon as your Buddy in Pokemon Go is lovely, but most of the time it just sort of followed you around and...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions
The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...
The MOP Up: Warhammer Odyssey’s Slayer warms up for action
Who will you be when you adventure in Warhammer Odyssey's mobile world? The stocky and surly Dwarf Slayer would like to make a bid...
The MOP Up: When no one’s online, the terror truly begins
Halloween may be over, but you can still get your creepy spook on with No Players Online. This is a horror game that uses...
US politicians chastise Activision-Blizzard for its handling of the Hong Kong fiasco
If Blizzard thought its Hong Kong liberation fiasco couldn't possibly get worse than international headlines, a wide-ranging boycott, Riot Games' public pity, and a...
How Pokemon Go company Niantic is collecting (and using) your life’s data
We probably don't need to tell our audience this, given that while yes, you all have phones, you're also typically not obsessive about gaming...
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite improves Chamber UI and storage options with patch 2.5
Yes, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is still a thing. The game is still running, and it's even updating. The latest major update is being rolled...
Blizzard finally decides to ban the college Hearthstone team that called for a Blizzard boycott too
Did it bother you that Blizzard had punished Blitzchung over his Hong Kong liberation stunt but planned to permit American University players who similarly...
Blizzard solves its ‘one company, two policies’ problem by hiding pro players and canceling an event
While many gamers are now looking ahead to BlizzCon for its reveals after the Hearthstone Hong Kong esports fiasco, I'm far more curious about...
