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Ascent’s new president of the galaxy ruffles feathers, furthers roleplay
Ascent's president of the galaxy election is in the books, and a player named Prolapser ran away with 77 percent of the popular vote....
MechWarrior Online talks map design and tree destruction in a new video
Trees are awful. They are the actual worst. MechWarrior Online lets you stomp around in a war machine, but for too long it has...
Star Wars: The Old Republic has a resurgence of rakghouls
Well, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans, we've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that another upswing in rakghoul activity...
Global Chat: Are fellowship maneuvers due for a comeback?
Lord of the Rings Online hasn't been en vogue in MMO circles recently, but that doesn't mean that the game and its systems are...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 20
Justin and Eliot discuss FFXIV's Heavensward expansion, Devilian, WoW's 6.2 patch, Anarchy Online's graphics upgrade, WildStar's fall plans, PlanetSide 2's PS4 launch, and some embargoed goodies.
Star Citizen answers questions about damage, building, and repair
Star Citizen aims to make its damage feel complete. Your ship doesn't take a 15-point hit; you have a blowout in your starboard plasma relays,...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR community divide over Knights of the Fallen Empire
The past couple of weeks have been kind of strange for me. For five years, I've written about Star Wars :The Old Republic. I've...
Player analyst believes EVE Online concurrency is at its lowest point since 2008
It's really difficult to be sure about how EVE Online is doing, since CCP Games has stopped releasing subscription numbers on a regular basis....
EVE Evolved: Is EVE becoming less emergent?
I've often heard it said that EVE Online is more fun to read about than to actually play, and for the vast majority of...
Did Hi-Rez just tease Global Agenda 2?
Could this be the first glimpse of Global Agenda 2?
During a recent charity livestream, Hi-Rez Studios dropped a minute-long teaser of its team playing...
One Shots: Gazing at potential
Major props to reader John, who somehow managed to finagle screenshots from his PlayStation 4 to bring us this stunning Destiny vista. Back when...
Nexus Telegraph: Why I play WildStar
Back on the old Massively-That-Was, we used to feature a sporadic series called "Why I Play." The idea was for each of the writers...
Star Citizen’s Roberts on the delayed FPS module, Squadron 42 shoot
Star Citizen boss Chris Roberts released a new letter from the chairman last night, in which he details his experiences directing performance capture for...
The Daily Grind: Is SWTOR 2.0 a good move by BioWare?
I'm not going to lie to you: I'm almost equally divided between excitement and nervousness for Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the...
Ascent’s James Hicks: ‘We really are onto something unique here’
Ascent: The Space Game is one of the MMO genre's most ambitious titles. Whether it's the seamless transitions between the vastness of space and...
WildStar begins Chinese beta this August
As WildStar is preparing to make the grand transition to free-to-play in the west this summer, it's simultaneously making in-roads into Asia with an...
Massively Overthinking: Random encounters in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us:
Are...
Fleet veteran heavy destroyers coming to Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online lead systems designer Phil Zeleski has penned a new dev blog concerning fleet veteran heavy destroyers. These tier six vessels will...
The Stream Team: Come to the SWTOR dark side…story
Did you get enough SWTOR news this week? Either way, why not join Massively OP's Larry and MJ to talk about it all as...
Perfect Ten: Weirdly specific quests we keep encountering in MMOs
You know how you wince whenever you think of typing /played into your MMO and realize just how many hours you've given to a...
