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Betawatch: Legends of Aria has a free stress test
I can't speak for anyone else, but whenever I see something advertising a stress test, I just shrug and say that I've already got...
All the best MMO sales of Black Friday 2018
Fun fact: I live pretty far from my nearest family, so I don't have to get to go home and partake of the American...
The MOP Up: Free Overwatch this Thanksgiving
Don't have Thanksgiving plans past gorging on dead bird carcasses and mashed-up roots? Blizzard has just the thing for you: Free Overwatch!
"From November 20th...
Whatever happened to Empyrion Galactic Survival?
Anybody remember Empyrion Online aka Empyrion Galactic Survival? It's one of those space sandbox multiplayer survival games that went for a Kickstarter back in...
Betawatch: Torchlight Frontiers’ stress test, Lost Ark’s wild popularity
Torchlight Frontiers' alpha stress test kicked off today; PWE is begging y'all to come stress test the servers. Except literally nobody I know got...
EVE Online’s Onslaught expansion is live with new content for PvE and PvP alike
EVE Online's Onslaught expansion is officially live this morning, with "a little bit of something for everyone" as MOP's own Brendan Drain put it....
Check out some Monster Hunter movie pics from the set courtesy of the stars themselves
Movies based on video games are... well, they're movies. The chance they end up in sometimes top 10 listicle of the worst transmedia synergies...
The MOP Up: Pagan Online slams ARPGs and MOBAs together
Tack this on your list of action-RPGs to watch. Mad Head Games announced that it is developing a blend of ARPG and MOBA with...
Betawatch: Torchlight Frontiers plans its alpha test for next week
Aw dang, check out the big brain on Torchlight Frontiers! First the game teases us with forts, which get to be our homes in...
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...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation tests battle royale, Occupy White Walls hands out beta keys
So... all right. Ashes of Creation has a secondary side battle royale mode that's going to be entitled Ashes of Creation: Apocalypse and is...
Global Chat: Is MapleStory 2 too cute for its own britches? (Yes.)
Maybe it's the weird gaming lull that's going on right now, but MapleStory 2 has picked up a good amount of press and player...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s free update offerings
When Elder Scrolls Online's Update 20 arrives, it will bring with it a free base patch that promises to spice up the alliance war...
MMO Business Roundup: Fractured Space, Runic Games, Michael Jordan esports, Epic investment, and the China problem
Welcome back to another quick trip through some of the week's business bits and bobs.
First up, some bad news. Edge Case's gorgeous F2P MOBA...
Betawatch: Fallout 76 enters beta testing
That's great, it starts with an NDA and no platform crossplay, Bethesda is not afraid. It's the end of the world as we know...
MMOs on the fringe: Warhawk, Spellbreak, Survival Heroes, and Vendetta Online
Quick: What does a team shooter, a battle royale game, a MOBA, and an MMO have in common? Answer: They're all in this weird...
Massively Overthinking: Is there too much negativity in the MMO genre?
MassivelyOP reader Threespeed posed us an interesting question for this week's Overthinking that I thought was particularly appropriate given the Trion Worlds situation.
"Everyone has...
Hellgate: London is coming back yet again on Steam
Yes, it's happening again. It never stops happening. Hellgate: London is getting yet another lease on life, which at this point may mean enough...
Guild Wars 2 dev explains the real cost of crunch to games and gamers, Rockstar Lincoln clarifies crunch policy
Rockstar's crunch problem and the ongoing industry discussion around games dev labor abuses don't appear to be dying down. Ahead of the weekend, Rockstar Lincoln...