sci-fi
Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.4 Chains in the Dark launches December 5
Get excited, Star Wars The Old Republic fans: Broadsword has just announced that GU 7.4, Chains in the Dark, officially launches on December 5th....
Why I Play(ed): Remembering WildStar’s sunset, five years later
Time shouldn't zip along as quickly as it often does, especially when it taps us on the shoulder to look back and see how...
EVE Online’s winter holiday events return next week with ‘glamorous gifts, games, and glory’
You might not look to the likes of EVE Online for your dose of Christmas spirit, but CCP Games would like to change that...
Destiny 2 swiftly stops sales of a baffling Starter Pack after players drag Bungie for the bundle
What do you think would be included in a Starter Pack for Destiny 2? Do you envision some currency? Perhaps access to an expansion...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming hitches a space ride in Star Citizen
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
The Stream Team: Big spaceship time with a friend in Star Trek Online
MOP's Chris has once more heard the siren song of Star Trek Online, particularly since his Porg Squadron family has been getting into the...
Destiny 2’s nearly seven month-long Season of the Wish has officially gone live this week
It's time for one of the longest seasons in Destiny 2's recent history thanks to the now-confirmed delay of The Final Shape to June...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2023
2023 was definitely a year of surprises for me. Not all of them were pleasant! If you've been watching my columns, you probably have...
Quantic Foundry’s survey examines the motivations of gamers drawn to sci-fi settings
Quantic Foundry - aka the Nick Yee-backed analytics company that's most well-known for its Gamer Motivation Model - has shared some responses from an...
Warframe of Mind: Reflections on TennoCon 2023 and Warframe’s 10 years of Tenno
TennoCon 2023 may be long over, but that doesn't mean it's out of mind. This year's convention was significant in a number of ways;...
The Stream Team: Fun with Warframe’s Fomorian event
Warframe has many types of missions and events, and Massively OP's MJ has played most of them. But one she has repeatedly missed is...
Warframe previews new weapon, new character, and new areas coming in December’s Whispers in the Walls
The month of December is dropping a whole lot of new things on Warframe players. That's because the sci-fantasy looter shooter is getting another...
CCP Games’ EVE Online-adjacent blockchain game Project Awakening confirms a December 6 playtest
Back in March we reported that CCP Games had begun development of Project Awakening, a blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe. The...
Bungie finally admits it’s delaying Destiny 2’s The Final Shape to June 4
Confirming what leaks and rumors and layoffs a month ago had already implied, Bungie announced this afternoon that it's delaying Destiny 2's The Final...
Vague Patch Notes: The myth of the ‘first’ MMORPG
One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...
Star Citizen fan recuts StarEngine demo video to remove ‘fluff’ and focus on its features
CIG has to have known that disgruntled Star Citizen fans would see the recently released StarEngine demo video as another chance to drag the...
CCP Games finally ends official support of the long-neglected EVE Portal mobile app
Longtime fans of EVE Online have likely noticed that the sandbox's official EVE Portal mobile app has been in decline for a number of...
Global Chat: Tarisland is the real deal, folks
As Tarisland winds its way through the beta process on its way to our grubby little hands in 2024, there are more and more...
Destiny 2 shares Season 23 class and mod updates, preps raid group finder test for November 30
Season of the Wish is now only days away from releasing to Destiny 2 players, which means that Bungie has a lot of updates...
The Daily Grind: Do you wait for fresh start servers to come back to an MMO?
I don't think that MMO vets and developers entrenched into a particular game realize just how daunting it is for lapsed players to actually...