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EVE Online introduces new landmarks, spaceship racing, and an Abyssal Proving Ground event
On your marks, get set, tap in the coordinates of a location into your nav computer, spool up the warp drives, and go! Admittedly,...
Star Citizen talks up land vehicle physics changes as CIG devs rebut claims of mistreatment during Texas snowstorm
While Star Citizen certainly loves its spaceships, there are a number of land-based vehicles that deserve love too, and that's just what the latest...
Star Citizen XenoThreat postmortem talks co-op gameplay, performance issues, and PvP imbalance
Players of Star Citizen certainly have opinions about how the game's first dynamic event played out, but how do the devs at CIG think?...
MechWarrior Online and RUST are slowly recovering after data center fire yesterday
As we reported yesterday morning, a massive fire in Strasbourg, France, took out multiple buildings at the OVH data center where countless companies, including...
‘We will never be the same’: Cryptic is adopting a permanent work-from-home policy
A lot of gaming companies, including MMO companies, shifted to working from home when the COVID pandemic began in earnest last year. And one...
MMO Business Roundup: Germany, lockboxes, Distintegration, and CCP vs. the bots
Welcome back to another quick rundown of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
German lockboxes: We've gone through two full cycles of lockbox backlash in the...
Not So Massively: Outriders’ demo teases a decent but unremarkable looter-shooter
Outriders, the new co-op shooter from publisher Square Enix, is not a game I've followed super closely, but with Anthem consigned to eternal purgatory,...
EU MechWarrior Online, RUST servers go offline following French data center burning to the ground – no one hurt
Well, this might be a first for the MMO industry: The data center in Strasbourg, France, that housed MechWarrior Online's servers was partially destroyed...
The Daily Grind: Where’s the love for MMO Engineers?
If you announce that your MMO is going to have an Engineer class of some kind, then congratulation: I'm going to play it. In...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 312: Written in the stars
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online Flames of Ambition and Update 29, WoW Classic, Daybreak's Aliens Fireteam, and City of Heroes, with listener mails and recordings on MMOs that are more fun to play than watch, a 2010 time capsule, Blizzard's Mac thing, and out-of-touch pockets of MMO fans.
Star Trek Online podcast to introduce Gene Roddenberry’s son to the MMO
When you have a dad who created one of the most famous scifi IPs of all time, you best ride those coattails all the...
Warframe preps a huge overhaul to the Railjack experience
The four-player Railjack spacecraft offer an exciting angle of play in Warframe, offering ship-to-ship combat and boarding scenarios. However, building a Railjack is a...
Elite Dangerous explores missions, spawning, bounties, and more Odyssey details
Whether you ended up indifferent or excited after Elite: Dangerous offered a preview of a mission from its Odyssey expansion, you very likely had...
Diablo II Resurrected will allow old save file transfers, will likely be Blizzard’s last remaster
I have to wonder who would be hanging on to an old Diablo II save file but then I check myself as I look...
One Shots: Never crowd surf over cats with claws
If you ever find yourself at a heavy metal concert where most of the crowd is made out of bestial cat-things, trust me: Don't...
The Stream Team: Making music with Warframe’s Octavia Prime
Once a music-making frame was introduced in Warframe, Massively OP's MJ has knew she had to have it. And now she has the Prime...
MMO Business Roundup: Theorycraft, My.Games, the FIFA fixing lawsuit, and Roblox’s latest concert
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Theorycraft: Could you found a new games studio on $37.5M? Yeah, probably. A bunch...
Interview: Camelot Unchained lays out its innovative alchemy system
One of the major slices of content being worked on in this current 90-day quadrant of Camelot Unchained development is its crafting system, specifically...
Star Citizen shows off alpha 3.13’s big new caves and previews new vehicle-based mining tools
CIG is very proud that it's made holes in the ground. That's the rather acerbic takeaway from this week's video update from Star Citizen,...
Massively Overthinking: ‘Dead games’ in the MMO space
I had a laugh a while back when I spied this tweet in my feeds from a Bungie CM who was suggesting people mute...
