Otherland devs deny buying positive Steam reviews
Drago Entertainment has today denied allegations that it paid for positive Otherland reviews on Steam.
Website MMOs.com accused the developer of directly paying for fake reviews,...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Moral panic and online griefing
Welcome back to our ongoing exploration of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt’s book The Video Game Debate. As you can guess, the book itself focuses...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been in a relationship with someone you met through MMOs?
A week ago, a Reddit user posted a casting call for a new reality show that will attempt to follow romantic relationships formed inside...
Black Desert slides into alpha testing
What's the next hot MMO import? For many it's the luscious Black Desert, which will be coming out in the west early next year....
EVE Vegas 2015: Further Citadel details, Valkyrie, capitals, and skill packets
Though most of the big reveals for EVE Vegas 2015 were front-loaded into day one's EVE keynote talk, a lot of questions were left...
Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: Initial impressions
I've now put a solid day of playtime into Heart of Thorns, so I decided that it was finally time for the first of my...
EA denies Origin account database breach
Hackers may have illegally accessed Origin's user databases, which may mean those of you with Star Wars: The Old Republic accounts or any other...
Here’s how to increase your chances of getting into Black Desert’s alpha
With Black Desert coming to both North America and Europe next year, getting into the test just became one of the hottest -- and most...
RIFT’s design team answers player questions on Reddit
In 1964, Bob Dylan released "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and he could very well have been talking about RIFT. Sure, the odds are...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most toxic community?
I ran across a weird thread on Reddit a week or two ago from a poster asking about toxic MMO communities, not because he...
Daybreak’s Jens Andersen says PlanetSide 2 ‘is really struggling’
Daybreak Executive Creative Director Jens Andersen admitted on Reddit that PlanetSide 2 isn't doing as well as it should: "The game is really struggling, and...
ARK has already sold 2 million early-access copies
How do you sell 2 million copies before you officially launch your game? Be a studio with a survival MMO on Steam. And, you...
Face a Dodorex in ARK’s upcoming Halloween event
ARK: Survival Evolved is transforming to ARK: Fear Evolved -- at least for one week at the end of this month! The survival game...
DC Universe Online launches Episode 17 for members today
It's October 7th, and do you know what that means? Not just that Halloween is one day closer, as it happens; it means that...
Player explorer returns from 10-month mission in Elite Dangerous
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Pioneer. Its 10-month mission: to explore strange new systems, to seek out new...
Guild Wars 2’s first raid boss is downed and the beta weekend gets extended
Bugs are a natural part of any beta experience, so it's not exactly surprising that Guild Wars 2 would experience some bugs during the...
SWTOR will introduce level-scaling in Fallen Empire
BioWare threw a nerdrage grenade in the midst of its Star Wars: The Old Republic community yesterday when it announced that as of Knights...
WildStar struggles with lag, bugs after F2P conversion [Updated]
It's been a long and stressful day-and-a-half for both WildStar players and Carbine, as the game's free-to-play patch resulted in horrendous lag, lengthy queues,...
Black Desert’s Russian beta starts October 12
Can you read Russian? Me neither, but I can read Reddit as well as the big date on the top of Black Desert's Russian...
Guild Chat: Creating a solo-friendly MMO guild
Welcome along to another instalment of Guild Chat, my own cozy wee corner of Massively OP in which I help readers in need with...
