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The Stream Team: Pustule-popping Plague Star adventures in Warframe
You know what Warframe's Plains of Eidolon needs? Infested! Wait, it doesn't? Oh. Well, unfortunately there is already mysterious meteorite that has crashed just...
The MOP Up: Fallout 76 turns five years old
Fallout 76 is celebrating its fifth anniversary loud and proud this week with a birthday party on Tuesday, a special challenge event, and a...
Vague Patch Notes: BlizzCon 2023 wasn’t a disaster, but it needed to be better
The last live BlizzCon in 2019 was not a great show, but it was fundamentally a hype festival for Blizzard just like they've all...
Destiny 2 resolves to ‘get back up’ as it confirms Season of the Wish for November 28
A common refrain heard in the story missions of Destiny 2 is "Eyes up, Guardian" - a call to stand once again after being...
Massively Overthinking: Did BlizzCon do what it needed to do?
Given the last couple of years, which have been inarguably rocky for both the company and its games, Blizzard needed a big win at...
Wayfinder suffers layoffs as Digital Extremes transfers the game fully to Airship Syndicate
Wayfinder hasn't even properly launched out of early access and it's already suffering layoffs. According to Polygon's unnamed sources, Tencent-owned Digital Extremes laid off...
The Overwatch League appears to be dead after six seasons
The Overwatch League appears to have lived up to its nickname, as it's yet another Overwatch L in light of the news that it...
Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs
Holy crud, do I not know that I'm setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends!...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...
Exoprimal is introducing Monster Hunter cosmetics and a Rathalos fight January 18
The team-based PvPvE shooter Exoprimal already has players facing plenty of monsters in the form of swarms of dinosaurs, but when the game's Season...
Fortnite’s Season OG brought back a record-breaking number of players over the weekend
The idea behind MMOs and multiplayer games hearkening back to "classic" times is ostensibly an attempt to capture some old magic and ideally a...
BlizzCon 2023: Overwatch 2 previews competitive updates, Clash game mode, and upcoming heroes
The "What's Next" panels continue to spill forth from this year's BlizzCon as Overwatch 2 talked up its next several seasons' worth of updates,...
Destiny 2’s Bungie addresses layoffs and prior releases as devs express ‘anger, sadness and fear’
This news update is essentially a tale of two sides of the same Destiny 2 coin: On the one side, there's the public-facing statement...
The Game Archaeologist: Firefall, an MMO tragedy about more than just a bus
Back when I first started writing for Massively and was energetic enough to go on trips to trade shows, I hit up a PAX...
BlizzCon 2023: Overwatch 2’s new hero, Mauga, has goofy guns that were at one point bigger than Tracer
During the Opening Ceremony at BlizzCon this afternoon, Blizzard's Overwatch 2 team was the first game out of the blocks to introduce the new...
BlizzCon 2023: WoW, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, and more at the Opening Ceremony
All the big news is at the end!
We're gearing up for the start of BlizzCon - and its freebie virtual stream - as the...
Here’s how to watch BlizzCon 2023 for free – plus everything to expect from WoW, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, and more
After several years away - and one goofy BlizzConline in 2021 - BlizzCon is finally back and in person as of today, though of...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming shoots a few rounds in Redfall
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
Nexon’s Embark Studios defends AI voice work in its arena shooter The Finals
The Finals, a free-to-play game show-themed arena shooter that's currently in open beta, is taking the heat for an admitted use of artificial intelligence...
Ubisoft and EA deprecate a dozen multiplayer games, including Star Wars Battlefront II of ‘pride and accomplishment’ fame
You can either chalk it up to the inescapable march of time and technology, shrug indifferently that older games are just dust in the...
