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The MOP Up: The Day Before’s romantic apocalypse
Massively OP reader Lily tipped us off that The Day Before's devs recently sat down with WCCFTech for an interview about this upcoming survival...
Warframe’s new and improved Railjack blasts out of spacedock
Grab a friend or three and board the completely revamped Railjack spacecraft in Warframe for some galactic fun. Digital Extremes' March patch for the...
The Stream Team: Checking out Warframe’s big Corpus Proxima Railjack update
Warframe's big Corpus Railjack update is live, and Massively OP's MJ can't wait to check it out! She can finally get her own railjack,...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO social hubs overrated?
MMO reader Random recently winged us an article from Kotaku arguing for the abolishment of pointless social hubs in video games. "Here’s a radical...
Multiplayer survival shooter Scavengers touts the features of SpatialOS and how the tech changes gameplay
Stop me if you've heard this before: Improbable's SpatialOS is going to be leveraged by the developers of Scavengers in a way that other...
Former Halo Wars game designer talks about the Halo MMO we never got to see
How do you think an MMO in the Halo universe would have played out? Would it just be like a really large multiplayer deathmatch?...
Aliens Fireteam devs discuss City of Heroes’ lasting popularity and Cryptic’s canceled Marvel MMO
Earlier this month, we finally got some hard info on Cold Iron's Aliens Fireteam, the Alien-franchise shooter that's been under wraps for six years...
Simutronics’ new mech hero shooter Galahad 3093 plans an open beta for March 19
It's a mech game! It's a hero shooter! It's from the company best known for GemStone IV and DragonRealms, a pair of MUDs which...
Blizzard ramps up hiring for its unannounced online game
Blizzard Entertainment is up to something -- something big -- these days behind closed doors. We've known that the World of Warcraft studio was...
Destiny 2 outlines the return of Grandmaster Nightfalls and upcoming Stasis PvP adjustments
The next couple of weeks in Destiny 2 are going to be interesting, depending on players' point of view or preferred activity. The latest...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 sanctions unorthodox raiding
Just because the devs think you're going to play the game one way doesn't mean that players aren't going to pour a whole lot...
MMO Business Roundup: Germany, lockboxes, Distintegration, and CCP vs. the bots
Welcome back to another quick rundown of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
German lockboxes: We've gone through two full cycles of lockbox backlash in the...
World of Tanks Console’s Season 5 lets all players earn a heavy Polish tank and a bear tank commander
There's a fresh season in World of Tanks Console and this one is a doozy, as all players, whether they have a Season Pass...
Not So Massively: Outriders’ demo teases a decent but unremarkable looter-shooter
Outriders, the new co-op shooter from publisher Square Enix, is not a game I've followed super closely, but with Anthem consigned to eternal purgatory,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 312: Written in the stars
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online Flames of Ambition and Update 29, WoW Classic, Daybreak's Aliens Fireteam, and City of Heroes, with listener mails and recordings on MMOs that are more fun to play than watch, a 2010 time capsule, Blizzard's Mac thing, and out-of-touch pockets of MMO fans.
Warframe preps a huge overhaul to the Railjack experience
The four-player Railjack spacecraft offer an exciting angle of play in Warframe, offering ship-to-ship combat and boarding scenarios. However, building a Railjack is a...
The MOP Up: Champions Online plumbs the Midnight Depths
The game is afoot -- the Champions Online game, that is! Cryptic pushed out the second part of the Midnight Depths story arc this...
One Shots: Never crowd surf over cats with claws
If you ever find yourself at a heavy metal concert where most of the crowd is made out of bestial cat-things, trust me: Don't...
Take a look at 25 minutes’ worth of Aliens Fireteam gameplay
Now that we know that Daybreak and Cold Iron Studios is finally launching that co-op shooter Aliens: Fireteam, there are likely more than a...
The Division 2 is getting a new game mode late 2021, reruns of Year 2 season content in the meantime
Ever since Ubisoft Massive made the announcement that The Division 2 would be getting another content update this year after TU12, which was intended...