sci-fi

Star Citizen’s monthly studio report covers alpha 3.0 work, eyes Squadron 42

21
What's Cloud Imperium been up to the last month? Oh nothing much, just frantically trying to prepare Star Citizen's alpha 3.0 to debut ahead...

Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs

18
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

The Daily Grind: Did Marvel Heroes just get the worst-managed MMORPG sunset of all time?

78
If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes situation. Now,...
Sorry, guy.

WildStar has a fun-filled December in store for you

4
House renovations, crass commercialization, and (XP) explosions are all in store for WildStar players this December. Carbine posted its December DevConnect preview today, sharing a...

Leaderboard: Is Destiny 2’s marketing brilliant or just plain nuts?

60
So this morning I'm dishing out cheese crackers for my kid, who was up all night barfing. (If my posts have typos today, it's...

Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre

48
Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...

Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance

14
Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies. That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
No, it's still not.

Destiny 2 acknowledges ‘betrayal’ over XP adjustments and studio silence

21
While stopping short of an actual apology in this week's Destiny 2 state of the game post, Bungie acknowledged that players have been greatly...

The Repopulation considers closing its EU server, adding hardcore server as 10.2 patch rolls out to testers

22
Idea Fabrik has a new forum post up on the state of sandbox MMO The Repopulation heralding the testing of update 10.2. There's downside,...

Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s Chiss flashpoint

20
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched update 5.6, which gave us many new quality-of-life changes to the game as well as our first...

The Stream Team: The final KOTFE chapter in SWTOR

2
It has been quite the journey through SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire for Massively OP's MJ and Larry, and they couldn't have done...

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017

27
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...

Move over, pixel ships: Star Citizen is now selling pixel land claims

265
The Star Citizen community was once again rocked yesterday by the addition of new pixelstuff to buy ahead of launch, this time in the...
feelin' fine!

Destiny 2 stream is canceled in the wake of player rage as a free trial surfaces

48
So, let's recap the Destiny 2 saga. First, there was a leveling scaling problem wherein players discovered that the game was now slowing leveling...
Very dynamic.

SWTOR’s double event won’t make today’s 5.6 patch (but the trailer is now live!)

0
The bad news is that the Star Wars: The Old Republic double event has been pushed back slightly. It was supposed to start today,...
Gay ship.

EVE Online patches in more alpha skills on December 5th

2
The next patch for EVE Online arrives on December 5th, and it's going to give Alpha players (or "free-to-play players" for those not down...
Yeah, there's no version of this that ends well.

Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion

156
Saga of Lucimia has made a name for itself during its long development as a hardcore old-school indie MMO with a focus on grouping...
Seriously, someone needs to turn up the gamma correction in New England.

Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends

11
Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...

Destiny 2 doubles level XP following last week’s botched event

25
Remember how Bungie bungled Destiny 2's XP scaling event and had to disable the whole thing after players found that the game was throttling...

Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft

18
Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose. The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...

THE LATEST POSTS

TOP CONTENT