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PlanetSide 2 cleans up tank cannons and fixes some environmental issues in newest PTS build
PTS builds aren't always about glamorous updates or big top features; sometimes they're just about applying some needed polish and bug fixes. That looks...
Destiny 2 dishes on creating Season of the Haunted’s story arc and prepares a few minor updates
Did you enjoy the story beats that came out of Destiny 2's Season of the Haunted? Would you like to learn more about how...
Star Citizen follows up on alpha 3.18 feature developments as the build heads towards a November release
Alpha 3.18 has been the talk of Star Citizen's summer series of Inside Star Citizen videos, but now that Cloud Imperium is wrapping up...
Star Wars: The Old Republic brings its shiny new forums online
No longer will Star Wars: The Old Republic's forums be considered a "heap of junk" or a "scruffy-looking nerfherder." BioWare proudly announced that it...
The Stream Team: In Star Trek Online’s Eye of the Storm
While Massively OP's MJ is disappointed that the newest episode in Star Trek' Online's story arc revealed a juicy spoiler up front, she's still...
Stick and Rudder: Venturing into EVE Online’s nullsec
EVE Online is a game that offers many experiences, from NPC faction warfare to harvesting, refining, and building to market speculation. But the one...
Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs
Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...
Dual Universe’s launch is tripped up by bugs, performance issues, and problems with subscriptions
No MMO launch plan survives contact with the enemy (aka access by players at scale), so knowing that yesterday's launch of Dual Universe had...
Overwatch 2 plans to combat player toxicity and secure accounts with a ‘defense matrix’
Wrath what? Blizzard doesn't have time to think about the immediate past when it has another launch coming right around the corner. Next week,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 390: All systems go for MMO launches
Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen's crowdfunding, Wrath Classic's launch, Dual Universe, Mythic, Ultima Online's 25th birthday, Tibia, and LOTRO Before the Shadow, with adventures in SWG Legends and Truck Simulator, plus a voicemail topic on MMO systems proliferated across the genre.
The Stream Team: Dual Universe launches with a giveaway
The space sandbox Dual Universe just launched today, and Massively OP's MJ is raring to dig in! Literally -- she's looking forward to mining...
Dual Universe debuts a new trailer and offers lapsed players free play time for today’s launch
Dual Universe is going live today - something that regular readers would be more than familiar with given our coverage of the news coming...
MMO turned visual novel Destiny’s Sword announces early access launch date of October 17
Last week we uncovered that Destiny's Sword, the sci-fi MMO that predicated itself on maintaining the mental health of combatants, decided to drop its...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s forums enter read-only mode as part of a migration to new forum platform
Today begins a transformation for forumgoers of Star Wars: The Old Republic. That's because the forums are in read-only maintenance mode for the next...
Raph ‘Designer Dragon’ Koster reminisces on 25 years of Ultima Online
While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs push players through different content types?
MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an interesting question about wildly different content types and the MMOs that either nudge or force...
The MOP Up: Allods Online throws an orcish holiday
How many MMOs throw Orcs their very own holiday? I only know one: Allods Online, which celebrates all things orcish -- including goblin tossing...
Global Chat: Warming up to story-driven MMORPGs
Do you play MMOs for the narrative or ignore the story altogether? There's a sharp line dividing the community on this issue, but MMO...
One Shots: Postcards from the galactic rim
While most of you toil and adventure away in the gravity well of a single planet, some daring MMOstronauts (is that a term? It...
Some Assembly Required: What to expect from Dual Universe’s September 27 wipe and launch
Having trouble logging into Dual Universe? That's because Novaquark shut down its servers on the 22nd. But don't worry, the space sandbox did not...
