sci-fi
Burn down your foes in Warframe’s Ring of Fire update
Things are heating up in the sci-fi action game Warframe. The latest update, dubbed Ring of Fire, adds the flame-flinging Nezha Warframe to the...
Leaderboard: Massive servers vs. custom communities
One of the trends cropping up in the MMO industry in recent years is the Neverwinter Nights custom shard phenomenon. Games like Star Citizen,...
The Game Archaeologist: Perpetual’s Star Trek Online
If you're among the legions of Trekkies, then you are almost certainly aware of Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online. Since early 2010, players have...
How MMO studios wield ‘YouTube influencers’
Kotaku has posted what it's calling "a behind-the-scenes peek at what it looks like when YouTubers shill for game companies." Perfect World Entertainment, well-known to...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s story stream talks about resuming romance and future story developments
The next chapter of Knights of the Fallen Empire is coming out in early February, and it's reintroducing a major character to players of...
Divergence Online abandons Steam sales over ongoing review harassment
Update: We have continued our reporting on this story here.
Yesterday, an eagle-eyed reader noticed that Divergence Online had seemingly been pulled from Steam and...
The Daily Grind: Could a time travel MMO work?
A week or so ago, we reported on the release of an eastern title called Dark Era that was largely unremarkable save for the...
Massively Overthinking: The cynicism of modern MMO Kickstarters
This week we've been abuzz about Smed's Hero's Song Kickstarter cancellation - the KS more than the game, mostly because the game is happening...
EA says SWTOR’s sub numbers were way up last quarter
Good news for MMORPG players coming from the preliminary EA quarterly financial results:
"In Q3, STAR WARSâ„¢: The Old Republic grew to its highest subscriber...
Firefall vows to tackle more Razor’s Edge bugs
Firefall's had a rough couple of months, first with Christmastime budget and reorganization problems and then with the rocky launch of its Razor's Edge...
Today’s Tribes: Ascend patch addresses votekicking and vehicles
The Tribes: Ascend servers are offline right now for the game's impending 1.2 patch. Of note, Hi-Rez is implementing a new vehicle queueing system and reducing...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World’s golden grind
Hello. My name is is MJ. And I have a golem problem.
Boy, The Secret World got me good -- hook, line, and sinker. By the...
Global Chat: Oculus Rift, GW2’s philosophy shift, and emulator exploration
The high cost of Oculus Rift brought a lot of discussion to the MMO blogosphere recently, with writers taking sides for and against the...
Superdata says League of Legends makes more money than any other game you play
Let's just get this out of the way: Superdata is a research firm that sells its data analysis. It doesn't disclose its methodology or...
SWTOR is putting lockboxes inside of other lockboxes
Star Wars: The Old Republic apparently couldn't stand to see RIFT hogging the business model drama spotlight today and has issued a new proclamation...
NCsoft is porting its MOBA Master X Master to the West
NCsoft has just announced that it's porting Master X Master, its MOBA, to western shores "later this year."
https://twitter.com/PlayMXM/status/692347333556715520
The MOBA brings together characters from multiple...
SWTOR shakes up crafting and instant-60 gear for Update 4.1
We anticipate some very mixed emotions from the announced changes to gear and crafting in the next big update for Star Wars: The Old...
Star Trek Online details the benefits of the anniversary Krenim Science Vessel
The sixth anniversary of Star Trek Online is nearly upon players, complete with all of the requisite celebration events. That means plenty of little...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 48: Blade & Soul runner
Justin and Bree discuss Blade & Soul, Black Desert, Hero's Song, City of Steam, NCsoft, Diablo III, and FFXIV, with a mailbag question on global chat jerks.
EVE Online event encourages players to help construct the first Citadel stations
Even in games set far in the future, people still think about living in the World of Tomorrow. EVE Online players are already experiencing...