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Vague Patch Notes: MMORPGs and the PC gaming market
I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...
Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
Star Citizen begins its Valentine’s Day, Lunar New Year, and free fly events for February this weekend
The month of February is loaded to the gills with events (and shop sales) for the alpha spaceship sandbox of Star Citizen, as CIG...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost a house in an MMO?
Last week, fellow MMO blogger Belghast wrote a blog post that sent a shot of panic through my own heart: He tells the tale...
Star Wars Galaxies’ Restoration rogue server launches Schisms of Heretics with new Jedi content
If there were an award for slick rogue server promotions, Star Wars Galaxies Restoration 3 would win it this month, as the announcement newsletter...
Star Citizen firms up April’s alpha 3.23 features and recounts development progress for January
It's roundup day for Star Citizen fans, as CIG has put out its latest roadmap update outline and January development report for fans to...
Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two
Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...
Not So Massively: Stormgate isn’t delivering a revolution (yet)
Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...
Black Desert talks up 300v300 War of the Roses PvP and today’s 15v15 Guild League
Black Desert is taking a page out of EVE Online's playbook and promoting its mass-PvP systems - specifically, the War of the Roses pre-season...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 456: The MMO housing show
Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.
The Stream Team: Warframe’s book and brainiac fish
When Massively OP's MJ left off in her Warframe Whispers in the Walls adventures last time, it wasn't the walls she was listening to....
Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium teases upcoming alpha 3.23’s possible features
The return of Star Citizen's weekly video digests already highlighted a couple of features for alpha 3.23, but there's now the usual weekly Star...
Heckbugs in Love return to voxelbox Trove for Valentine’s Day starting next week
It warms my heart to think that a lil tiny piece of Defiance lives on in Trove thanks to the game's bizarre Valentine's Day...
Open Perpetuum is bringing land mines, new weapons, and T4 balancing sometime in ‘Marchish’
Markish your calendarsh because the Perpetuum emulator Open Perpetuum is going to be releasing Patch 31 sometime in "Marchish." When is Marchish? We're notsh...
The Stream Team: Blowing up birthday Borg in Scorpion’s Abyss on Star Trek Online’s 14th anniversary
Happy 14th anniversary, Star Trek Online! And Massively OP's MJ is celebrating by running the newest content, Scorpion's Abyss. This episode brings in Ezri...
Destiny 2 director Joe Blackburn vacates his position for ‘a new adventure outside the walls of Bungie’
After nearly a decade of working at Bungie and four years as game director of Destiny 2, Joe Blackburn has left his position, moving...
Star Citizen discusses alpha 3.23 EVA updates, lines up multiple events and a new free trial for February
Star Citizen is a game that's mostly about internet spaceships, but sometimes players need to engage in some extra-vehicular activity, or EVA for short....
The Daily Grind: Do you even want an MMO with transmedia synergy?
We've been talking about transmedia synergy again thanks to Dune Awakening, so I want to go at it from a new angle. The term...
Massively Overthinking: Do you care more about MMO stats or looks?
This week's Massively Overthinking is fully inspired by the unicorn backpack meme, which Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss tweeted out last week with the caption "stats over looks any day." You know we have to talk about this.
After nearly eight years, Dual Universe says physical Kickstarter rewards are en route
Dual Universe completed its Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in October 2016. Some of those backer tiers included physical schwag that would be mailed to player...
