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Final Fantasy XI rolls out the Spring Alter Ego Expo on February 1
If you think about it a little, the trusts in Final Fantasy XI are a bit like the eponymous pokemon. They fight alongside you and...
Two months later, classic Ingress has better reviews than the buggy Ingress Prime reboot
When Niantic rebooted Ingress as Ingress Prime back in November, it was after a year of work effectively porting the classic MMOARPG to Pokemon Go's...
Vague Patch Notes: The fads and the curious (and why Overwatch’s star is fading)
So it's beginning to look a lot like the Overwatch fad has faded. It was a crazy couple of years there, but the fact that...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs to watch in 2018
Love it or hate it, MMOs are going mobile in ever-increasing numbers. Last year saw a crop of acclaimed titles making their way to...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2018
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
MMO Business Roundup: Stardew, Curse, Epic, Niantic, unionization, and HOTS’ wrecked esports scene
Welcome back to another catch-all post of gaming business stuff that might otherwise slip through the cracks!
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who recently took...
Pokemon Go explains the philosophy underpinning its new trainer battles
Why are there different leagues for trainer battles in Pokemon Go? Because Niantic is familiar with the game's competitive scene, that's why. The split allows...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later?
So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Pokemon Go encourages you to fight your friends in the new trainer battles
When Pokemon Go adds trainer battles, you can overcome distance to fight people with the power of friendship. No, really; while normally you can only...
Niantic agrees to settle the property trespass class action lawsuit over Pokemon Go
Way back in 2016, at the height of the new-news-every-day-on-Pokemon-Go, we covered a lawsuit lodged against Nintendo and Niantic by one Jeffrey Marder of...
MMO ‘creature-collection adventure’ Temtem has launched its backer alpha
One of the two major MMO Kickstarter success stories of 2018 was most definitely Temtem, the clearly Pokemon-inspired "massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure" that raised...
Massively on the Go: The Pokemon Let’s Go-Go Connection
Yes, we're going to talk about Pokemon Let's Go Eevee (or you can pretend its Pikachu if you just want to experience Pokemon Yellow again). No, it's...
Niantic’s Harry Potter ARG Wizards Unite opens enlistment with new trailer
Turns out that Ingress Prime wasn't the only fun thing Niantic was plotting for November: The studio best known for Pokemon Go also announced...
MMO Business Roundup: Japanese lockboxes, POGO and Square Enix financials, and Prima’s end
"The Good Times Are Over for Japan’s Loot-Box-Style Gaming Bonanza" - that's the brutal headline plonked onto this week's Bloomberg report on Japanese lockboxes....
The MOP Up: TERA opens SEA server and delivers Deathwrack to consoles
It was a pretty big week for action combat MMO TERA, starting with the delivery of the four-dungeon Deathwrack update to Xbox One and...
Follow JC Go puts a Biblical spin on Pokemon Go’s formula
It seems like everyone these days is trying to get in on the GPS-based augmented-reality game fad, and the latest entry into the genre...
Massively on the Go: The key MMO features in The Walking Dead Our World
As a franchise, The Walking Dead is probably past its prime, but I'm admittedly still a bit of a fan. In fact, I was playing...
Pokemon Go is pushing Gen 4 and Let’s Go Content at the same time
Nintendo and Niantic seem to be working overtime these days: With Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu games coming in November and Pokemon Go's big...
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s new playgrounds
Ranked Season 4 started up in Heroes of the Storm this past week, and that's just the start of the fun with Blizzard's MOBA....