sci-fi
One Shots: A star is born
It's time for another amazing Fashion Week here at One Shots! It's like Shark Week, only with sleeker looks and less chum. Last time,...
Elite Dangerous is getting a fleshed-out MMO guild system in Beyond Chapter Four
Frontier is continuing to pump out livestreams highlighting the details of Elite Dangerous' Beyond Chapter Four. Yesterday, the stream's focus was on squadrons, essentially...
Star Citizen on underground bunker design, looking ahead to alpha 3.4, and closing in on $200M
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse continues the post-CitizenCon catch-up, this time featuring the underground bunker on Hurston, including the layout, design, and...
Ultima Online’s Raph Koster muses on the appeal of MMO experiences
A little weary of killing and nothing else in MMORPGs? You're not alone because Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online creator Raph Koster pines...
The Stream Team: A final frolic in WildStar’s Shade’s Eve
Massively OP's MJ is saddened that this will be the last ever Shade's Eve in WildStar. Besides a celebration of her favorite holiday, it's...
Working As Intended: The gamification of the workification of games
Last weekend, my husband made the bold choice to let our young son play The Stanley Parable. I am not entirely sure the kid...
Hyperspace Beacon: Five tools to up your roleplay game in SWTOR
As you all know, I like to roleplay in Star Wars: The Old Republic. In fact, creating characters and creating struggles for them within...
The Stream Team: Conan Exiles’ night of the dead
Massively OP's MJ is excited to see what Conan Exiles has in store for its Halloween night event! The land opens to the dead...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s one-day Halloween event
What's spooky in Star Trek Online? When research goes awry! The mini-mission Hearts and Minds is back for Halloween. Maybe they could have called...
Perfect Ten: Compliments to MMOs I don’t play
Back in September, Bree posed a Daily Grind question that I thought was genuinely intriguing. You know, for once. Just kidding, Bree! She asked...
Guild Wars 2’s legendary upgrade feature accidentally joins weekly patch as new RMT griefing trick emerges
If, like our staff, you looked at yesterday's Guild Wars 2 patch notes and thought it was a "filler patch" with just a handful...
A story of rags to recovery (not quite riches) thanks to Warframe’s player-made content
Artist Frelling Hazmot is doing all right these days. He's paying back debts and making do with a rather substantial income. It's a far...
Star Trek Online’s Age of Discovery is coming to consoles on November 13th
Earlier this month, Perfect World Entertainment released the first chapter of Star Trek Online's Age of Discovery update for the game's PC version, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 194: It belongs in a museum!
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's progression server, Trion's travails, the Video Game Museum's big win, Hellgate London, ESO Murkmire, Wild West Online, and Just Survive, with mailbag entries on P2W in emulations and mainstream MMO condescension.
Elite Dangerous Beyond Chapter Four’s beta is live, or at least some of it is
Beta for Elite Dangerous' Beyond Chapter Four's PC update is live now, or rather, the first wave is. "In tune with our vision for...
Star Wars Galaxies’ original emulator teases Jump to Lightspeed space content
One of the reasons I favor the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator is that it's a late enough build of the game that it...
New World leaks make it sound more and more like a real MMO sandbox, not a survival game
The weird thing - or clever thing - about Amazon Game Studios' New World alpha is that seemingly everyone is in it, so nobody...
SuperData: World of Warcraft’s expansion surge ends as Destiny 2’s expansion surge begins
Dungeon Fighter Online is continuing its run raking in more money than League of Legends, but World of Warcraft's expansion blast seems to be...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs should be preserved in the Video Game Museum?
In returning to the video game preservation debate this week following the DMCA exceptions granted to museums and archivists allowing them to archive online...
EVE Evolved: Hands-on with EVE Online FPS Project Nova
Cast your mind back to 2011 and you'll probably remember the insane hype that was building for DUST 514, CCP Games' ambitious console MMOFPS...
