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Global Chat: Black Desert is the MMO sandbox to beat
Those who wrote off or skipped by Black Desert on the way to other MMOs may be missing one of the best sandboxes on...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMOs do when guild leaders vanish?
Last week, we covered that wild story about a "heist" in EVE Online that allowed the perpetrators to make off with trillions of ISK...
CCP Games is already sunsetting EVE Anywhere after just a year in the wild
Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere - essentially a cloud-hosted version...
Destiny 2 Season of Defiance mid-season update buffs a bunch of weapons in PvE
Dang, it seems like Destiny 2's Season of Defiance just started, and Bungie's already rolling out its mid-season update. Gonna need time to slow...
MechWarrior Online Legends adds two more legendary mechs, tweaks maps, and adjusts chassis quirks
Last month, Piranha Games made some big changes to MechWarrior Online, specifically renaming it to MWO: Legends and selling new legendary mechs that have...
Star Trek Online’s recent patch brings back its First Contact Day and Delta Recruit events
Last week was a pretty big one for Star Trek Online players, particularly those who like previous events in the spacefaring MMO, as PC,...
The Stream Team: The Klingon life in Star Trek Online
So far in his Star Trek Online career, MOP's Chris has managed to get to max level as a Starfleet character and gotten some...
Bungie warns Destiny 2 players that it will be watching for cheating via the use of accessibility aides
Third-party peripherals and programs that are intended to make a game more accessible for certain players are a wonderful thing, but as usual, there...
The Daily Grind: Are you a half-hearted MMO crafter?
Whenever we talk about crafting, I feel that we're too quick to divide all players into "crafters" and "non-crafters" without considering that there might...
The Stream Team: Live fire training in MechWarrior Online aka MWO: Legends
Sometimes you learn by doing, and sometimes you learn how to fight by getting knocked down. A lot. MOP's Chris is nowhere close enough...
Elite Dangerous joins a host of science fiction-focused events at the London Science Museum on May 4
May the 4th celebrations are usually aimed at the Star Wars fandom, but this year the London Science Museum will expand them to include...
EVE Online players commandeered a dormant guild and made off with $22K in plunder
As most longtime MMO players know, leaders going AFK for extended periods can result in all kinds of shenanigans in player organizations behind their...
Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.1, prepares for a free fly event, and recounts March’s dev progress
After nearly a full month since its initial 3.18 launch, Star Citizen is considering itself fully operational once again with the launch of alpha...
EVE Online is putting its new launcher and graphical upgrades to the test today
MMO launchers follow a very basic principle: Nobody ever notices a good one, but a bad one can sully the whole game. Which one...
Warframe’s Duviri Paradox mesmerizes players on April 26 – here’s the new trailer
Warframe's next big thing is almost here: The Duviri Paradox launches on April 26th, and there's a brand-new trailer to celebrate.
"Arriving for all platforms...
Star Citizen continues to promise alpha 3.18.1 fixes ‘shortly’ while more testing tools are developed
The alpha 3.18 release of Star Citizen continues to look like a gamedev engineering nightmare as the partial outage state of the persistent universe...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 417: Happy Compensation Day!
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, New World, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Amazon Games' layoffs, and Ghostcrawler's new MMO studio, with adventures in LOTRO and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on problematic MMO speedrunning.
EVE Online’s month-long battle at X47L-Q concludes with a destroyed keepstar and trillions of ISK in losses
Over the past few weeks, a battle has been unfolding in EVE Online in X47L-Q, which drew in some impressive numbers in terms of...
Earth and Beyond rogue server project may be the space MMO you crave
Just the other day, the MOP staff was bemoaning the fact that the pickings for space sim MMOs are slim and lacking. But instead...
Cryptic claims victory over login issues plaguing its PC MMORPGs and hands out apology goodies to players
If you were among the PC players who were having trouble getting into Cryptic's slate of MMORPGs like Star Trek Online, Champions Online, or...
