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Sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is officially launching next month, six years after its $630K Kickstarter
It's been a long strange trip for the Kickstarted sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Dual Universe, studded with unusual monetization and the ousting of its founder...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO genre thriving in scarcity?
I want to talk about the MMO genre in the meta sense for a sec this morning. Every time I see another game pivot...
Destiny 2 outlines mid-season PvE adjustments to several weapons and armor pieces
There's still about a week left in Season 17 of Destiny 2, but that doesn't mean the devs at Bungie are done turning the...
Here’s how Star Citizen’s in-development kart racing tracks work – from the dev who designed them
Like it or loathe it, Star Citizen is getting kart racing, and response to this reveal has been so impressive that this week's Star...
Elite Dangerous confirms PC’s 4.0 version will still have a split between Horizons and Odyssey owners
In the beginning of August, Elite: Dangerous detailed the code merging happening for PC players, which would effectively move PC pilots to a version...
First Impressions: Tower of Fantasy is Genshin Impact in a PSO2 costume (and it’s actually pretty good)
Let's go ahead and get this out of the way: Tower of Fantasy, the new shared world RPG from publisher Level Infinite and developer...
The MOP Up: Survival sim Grounded tames gnats and preps for launch
Honey-I-shrunk-the-players survival sim Grounded's last big pre-launch patch arrived recently, adding gnat pets, a cookery building, and armor and weapon upgrade revamps. Grounded is...
Whatever happened to The Repopulation? (2022 Edition)
A few weeks back, I was working on a column that includes a reference to The Repopulation, and I realized I hadn't heard anything...
The Game Archaeologist: MegaWars, the Star Trek online sim from the ’70s
When we look at the early days of online computer gaming, it shouldn't be a surprise that the geeky crowd that was working on...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases pilot and player city updates, counts almost 20K new player houses in 2022
It's been a relatively quiet summer for the Star Wars Galaxies rogue servers, but that's only because devs are heads-down working on fall updates....
Star Citizen’s latest video shows progress on ships, salvage, and new UI elements
The newest weekly video out of Star Citizen is once again an all sprint report episode, which runs through several smaller progress reports and...
Massively Overthinking: What’s so bad about comfort zones in MMOs?
If you've been following the MMORPG meta for a long time, particularly in World of Warcraft, you know there's corner of the industry convinced...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming’s exposé on SWG crafting and decoration
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...
Elite Dangerous’ David Braben steps down as Frontier CEO into president role
David Braben, founder and CEO of Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier Developments, is going to be switching roles as he steps down as CEO and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 384: The World of Warcraft we’ll never see
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's financials, the canceled WoW mobile MMO, LOTRO remastered, the Riot MMO, and Legends of Aria's monetization, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and Fallout 76, plus a voicemail wishing for an MMO amnesia button.
Dual Universe will wipe its servers at launch – here’s why and how
The question of whether Dual Universe will wipe its servers at launch is one that has been hanging over players' heads as far back...
Elite Dangerous applies several fixes and closes the Azimuth Saga with a literal bang in today’s Update 13
Elite: Dangerous has released its newest update to the sandbox today, and it went off like a firework in a narrative sense. The actual...
The Stream Team: Getting to know Banshee while grinding in Warframe
In order to prepare to undertake Warframe's Angels of the Zariman quest, Massively OP's MJ needs to grind quite a few things. And she...
Dual Universe’s Q&A video series discusses schematics, megafactories, industry, and ore
From reading that headline, you'd be forgiven for thinking industrial gameplay is high on the minds of Dual Universe players, as a number of...
Star Citizen shows off how it makes visual effects during its latest developer livestream
A spaceship sandbox like Star Citizen has got to have all sorts of flashy visual effects. After all, why bother having sexy spaceships and...
