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The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two
Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...
Sources now confirm the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic movie – and it’s a trilogy
Back in April, we covered Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy's statements about the potential for a Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic movie. At...
Massively Overthinking: What are your favorite MMO ‘chores’?
A few months ago, The Outline ran a piece on Red Dead Redemption 2 titled I don't wanna do my video games chores, and...
Funcom is now working on seven new games with 15 total projects, according to Q1 2019 financials
In our Overthinking roundtable last week, MOP's Andy McAdams posted as one of his "unpopular MMORPG opinions" the assertion that "Funcom is one of...
Star Trek Online is dropping 32-bit support in July
Time marches on, and it seems only appropriate that you cannot spend your time playing a futurist-looking science fiction series like Star Trek Online on...
EVE Online’s Invasion starter pack just went on sale for 100% off on Steam
While EVE Online has a limited free-to-play Alpha tier, new players can get a leg up on starting by buying one of the starter...
Warframe’s big Jupiter revamp arrives on PC
This is so big and so full of gas it cannot be ignored. And no, we're not just talking about Jupiter itself, which is...
Rogue Server Roundup: Toontown Rewritten, Chronicles of Spellborn, and SWG Legends
Emulators, pshards, rogue servers: Whatever you want to call them, they're buzzing with confidence right now. I mean, we legit got a properly formatted...
Not So Massively: Eden Rising provides a low-stress riff on survival games
Somehow I hadn't heard of Eden Rising until it launched out of early access as a free-to-play title, so to me at least it...
PlanetSide 2 focuses on optimization and celebrates PlanetSide 1’s 16th birthday
You know what makes me feel better about an MMO, especially an MMO in a franchise that's been kicked around a bit and seen...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 221: Classic Warcraft flavor
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, City of Heroes, Blade and Soul, Star Trek Online, Square Enix, and Dungeon and Dragons Online, with mailbag topics on how WoW Classic fits into the MMO genre and getting back into City of Heroes.
Enter to win a Star Trek Online PC Command Dreadnought Cruiser bundle and Discovery starter pack
With Star Trek Online's Rise of Discovery live and officially launched for PC, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to give away...
Choose My Adventure: My story begins to twist in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Who would have thought that two planets would bring change? I was wholly expecting some generally insular stories from Nar Shaddaa and Balmorra as...
The pieces needed to build a WildStar emulator have been posted online
Have any of you seen the movie Contact? It's a sci-fi film about an alien radio transmission that contains instructions to build an interstellar...
NetEase and CCP release new EVE Infinite Galaxy mobile MMO trailer
Back in June and August, CCP Games revealed its next big thing for the EVE universe: a new mobile MMO dubbed EVE Online: Infinite...
The Repopulation updates players on LODs and inventory following water damage
Unfortunately enough for the developers currently in charge of The Repopulation, the universe was not happy with keeping the game's player-facing updates humming along at...
Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles
This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...
Ex-Cryptic Studios artist decries ‘harmful’ video game lockbox designs based on slot machines
A 3-D character artist who previously worked at Cryptic Studios on Champions Online and Neverwinter has come out swinging against lockbox mechanics, saying that...
Battle Bards Episode 144: Colors of the rainbow
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet: Combined, these forces create the awesome power of Roy G. Biv — otherwise known as the...
The MOP Up: Dauntless’ forums are down for a month as the game goes offline until Tuesday
No doubt that you have heard about Dauntless' launch on Tuesday, May 21st. And while that marks a new beginning for the monster hunting...