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Daybreak deletes H1Z1 Maui lootbox skin citing cultural representation concerns
While the war over lockboxes rages on in online games, there's another war brewing about the nature of what's in them, as a move...
Daybreak’s Z1 Battle Royale is sunsetting its South American servers, canceling Showdown event
April's been a rough month for fans of Z1 Battle Royale, the PC version of H1Z1. Developer NantG laid off a chunk of staff...
Adventure Academy is an ‘educational massively multiplayer online game’ launching May 1
Adventure Academy is going to mystify the typical gamer: There are no dragons to fight and no lockboxes to fight over. But if you're...
The Daily Grind: Which underrated MMO would you recommend to friends?
So c'mon, we all know what the big MMOs are right now, the ones that always come up in conversation. You know, the ones...
NantG says it’s handing Z1 Battle Royale back to Daybreak – it’s not sunsetting, but there were layoffs
Yesterday, we broke the news that Z1 Battle Royale looked to be in serious trouble based on developers stating publicly that they'd been laid...
Rumor: Z1 Battle Royale, H1Z1’s PC version, seems to be in big trouble as devs confirm layoffs
Note: We'll be updating this piece at the end with the latest, and we've also put out a second piece here with NantG's statement.
It...
Dreadlands ventures into the turn-based apocalypse with ‘online elements of an MMO’
When the world comes to an end, we'll just have to take it in stride -- one turn at a time.
It's certainly been a...
QC Games says it’s ‘winding down internal operations on Breach’
It looks as if Breach is in trouble, folks - or at least the company behind it is. In a message to players today,...
Massively Uplifting: Bethesda’s gift to gaming granny, friendships forged in EverQuest and Guild Wars 2
It is no joke: There is plenty that's good going on in the gaming world, and we want to share that with you. You...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that set themselves up as spiritual successors
As with the larger video game market, sequels aren't unknown in the MMO space. We've seen studios take a stab at following up successful...
Defiance 2050 celebrates Armistice Day once again
Ah, Armistice Day, the special date in the lore of Defiance 2050 when humans and aliens stopped shooting at one another. To celebrate this, the...
The Stream Team: Eight years of Xsyon apocalypse survival
Eight years ago the irradiated landscape of Xsyon opened up, complete with mutant chickens and vicious rabid squirrels! Today marks the apocalyptic survival game's...
H1Z1’s PC version, Z1 Battle Royale, sees another leadership reshuffle as Jace Hall steps down
Yesterday, Daybreak and NantGMobile announced that Jace Hall is no longer consulting on the PC version of H1Z1 known as Z1 Battle Royale, having...
Sadistic player-designed maze traps Fallout 76 gamers
In a world where there are no NPCs, Fallout 76 players have to get really creative about what to do with their time. One...
Z1 Battle Royale declares the return of the king with a massive new update
Season 3 of Daybreak's PC H1Z1 (or Z1 Battle Royale now, or Z1BR for you hip kids) is coming back in a big way....
Watch the rise and fall of the most popular Steam games of the last four years
For those of us who are visual learners (or heck, bar chart fanatics -Â and you know who you are), there's an interesting animated gif...
NantG continues negotiations with Daybreak to resurrect H1Z1’s Just Survive
The future of H1Z1's zombie survival component Just Survive has been in limbo for some time now, ever since a joint venture with Daybreak Games...
Jagex picks up EVE Online vet Nathan Richardsson, is still working on multiple secret MMOs
If you've been reading Massively OP for a while, you're not going to be surprised whatsoever to once again hear the news that Jagex...
H1Z1 patches in quick fixes for its mammoth Season 3 update on PlayStation 4
Adding a whole lot of stuff to a game in a patch can also break things. It's not intentional, but it's inevitable. H1Z1 had...
Perfect Ten: The bloodiest MMOs of all time
I am not nor ever have been that much of a fan of gore and blood in video games. Oh, I thought Doom was...
