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The Stream Team: It’s shooter Saturday with Valorant
What does MassivelyOP's MJ do when someone she cares about asks to play a game with her? She says yes! Even when it is...
Breaking down Tencent’s extensive holdings across the video game industry
Riot Games, Epic Games, Netmarble, and Kakao. What do these companies have in common? If you said that they're all companies we talk about...
The Wagadu Chronicles has kicked off its alpha-1 phase today
As promised, The Wagadu Chronicles begins what Twin Drums is calling alpha-1 as of today. "The first closed Alpha-1 will last a week from today...
Riot Games promotes Marc Merrill to president of games
If you could go back to visit younger me and tell my naive face that it was actually possible to be promoted to become...
Not So Massively: Hearthstone’s Lunar New Year, Apex Legend’s Defiance, LoL’s Renata
Welcome back to a quick roundup of news and events in the Not-So-Massively multiplayer realm!
Hearthstone - Lunar New Year begins in Blizzard's OTCG as...
Riot Games posts another series of jobs for its in-development Runeterra MMO
Riot Games is once again seeking some new blood to help it develop its Runeterra MMO project. The list of positions includes an NPC...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 357: Microsoft swallows Blizzard whole
Justin and Bree discuss the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, the EverQuest franchise roadmaps, Nightingale's ex-MMO status, Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, and the Riot MMO, with adventures in LOTRO and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on Blizzard and games made for streaming.
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Riot Games adds multi-factor auth, a new champion to League of Legends, muted words feature to Valorant
Riot Games is all up in our news business this week, with several headlines coming out of the studio for its multiplayer games. Here's...
Vague Patch Notes: Unpacking the Riot MMO’s group-centric philosophy
Well! It has been a week, that's for darn sure. And amidst everything else going on this particular week, it would've been easy to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 356: A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Star Citizen, Black Desert, Elyon, and Neverwinter, with adventures in LOTRO, Crowfall, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus voicemail topics on alienating MMO design choices and new MMO crafting professions.
Riot confirms Runeterra MMO’s group-centered design philosophy
While Riot Games' in-development Runeterra MMO still hasn't publicized anything that resembles gameplay, release plans, or even testing plans, what it does have is...
Riot Games lays out five-year plan, partial ownership for employees
Yesterday, Riot Games' Nicolo Laurent released a length letter to workers and gamers, essentially outlining what the next five years of Riot will look...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2021
As the year that was 2021 comes to a close -- raise a glass, give a toast, and perhaps think of a few fond...
Valorant’s game director moves to secret project at Riot
The status quo at Riot Games' Valorant was upended this past weekend when Game Director Joe Ziegler announced that he's leaving the online shooter to...
Riot Games will settle sexual discrimination lawsuit for $100M and then some
We’ve been poking at the dumpster fire inside League of Legends company Riot Games ever since 2018, when Kotaku’s expose of workplace conditions was...
Riot’s Runeterra MMO exec confirms the game will have PvP of some sort
Being a Riot Games-built MMORPG set in the world of League of Legends, it's natural that fans of the IP will want to know...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2022
If 2021 had a problem, it was that we got simply too many MMO releases between new launches, early access, and expansions. This breathtaking...
The MOP Up: Trove’s polished paragon paradise
Trove is making sure that its players have plenty to do this season thanks to a Polished Paragon system. This patch came out on...
