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Warframe details 6th anniversary Weekend Wars and teases upcoming content in-game
Warframe is six years old, and there's no better way to celebrate the fact than by shooting and slicing enemies! To mark the milestone,...
The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the future of World of Warcraft?
Given the week that Activision-Blizzard just had - capping off a record financial year by haphazardly firing 800 employees, literally provoking union groups to...
The Game Archaeologist: Terra, SubSpace, and Sovereign
In the MMO industry, science fiction has always taken the role of the overlooked little brother to big sister fantasy's popularity. Sure, there have...
Battle Bards Episode 138: Wild wild westerns
Boy howdy, is it time for another highfalutin Battle Bards episode? Shucks, looks like! In this week’s show, the trio saddle up for a...
Anthem’s early access launch is already suffering from connection issues
Raise your hand if you're surprised by this: BioWare's much-anticipated online shooter Anthem went live for Origin Access subscribers earlier today, but the servers...
Ubisoft hits its Q3 earnings targets while betting big on The Division 2
Here's the bad news from the latest Ubisoft earnings call: The company's profits are down year-over-year. But that's about it in terms of bad...
Anthem’s live-action video Conviction is serious business
BioWare's been teasing a new live-action short for Anthem all week, and it's finally dropped. It's called Conviction, and it's credited to Neill Blomkamp,...
The Division 2 announces its open beta starting on March 1
Everything old is new again, and The Division 2 is following in the footsteps of its predecessor with the addition of an open beta...
Online shooter Blacklight Retribution is sunsetting its PC servers in March
If you can squint back about seven years, you'll remember when Blacklight Retribution was a going concern on the pages of Massively-that-was as a free-to-play...
Warframe maps out Weekend Wars, teases new Hildryn and Wisp ‘frames
Move over, Valentine's Day, a bigger event is on in Warframe: the Weekend War, in celebration of the game's sixth anniversary. Since beta. Because...
The Division 2 is getting a public beta but fails to match its predecessor’s streaming numbers
If you remember the lead-up to launch for The Division, you'll recall that the game sported a private beta followed by an open beta. The...
The MOP Up: Warframe brings Fortuna to Nintendo Switch
Are you jamming with Warframe on the Switch? If so, then this past week you had an extra reason to jam hard, as Digital...
Global Chat: Anthem makes first contact with gamers
The game on everyone's mind this month definitely has to be BioWare's Anthem. The studio's first new IP in a long time is a...
One Shots: Diet lightsabers
I think it's about high time we got a Star Wars game in which lightsabers functioned properly as instruments that could melt or slice...
Activision Blizzard expected to slash jobs after flat sales, loss of Destiny 2
Storm clouds are gathering above Activision Blizzard, a portent of bad sales and dire predictions: The publisher is expected to cut "hundreds" of jobs this week...
The Stream Team: Beating back bugs in Warframe’s Fortuna
Last time Massively OP's MJ ventured out on the frozen tundra of Warframe's Fortuna, her mission bugged out and she was never able to...
More MMO Valentine’s Day events: Black Desert, EverQuest II, Destiny 2, MapleStory 2, Revelation Online, and Wizard101
Hearts and chocolates and flowers continue to invade MMOs all around us. Bree here, reporting from the front lines of the invasion. Here are...
The Division 2’s private beta test is underway through next week
You've heard of an open beta, you've heard of a closed beta, but what the heck is a "private beta?" Sounds a little iffy,...
Anthem teases cataclysms and answers fan questions in latest AMAAAA
Yesterday, Anthem unveiled the first piece of its post-launch roadmap, which highlighted some of the new content planned for release as part of act...
MMO Business Roundup: The Fair Play Alliance, Warface splits from Crytek, ESA expansions, and WoW esports
We're back with another quick roundup of MMO industry news!
Remember the Fair Play Alliance? It was supposed to be a group of major and...