science
No Man’s Sky invites you to try your hand at space paleontology in its new Relics update
Who's ready to hunt for dinosaur bones... in space? No Man's Sky thinks you are, and that's exactly what you'll be doing in its...
Perfect Ten: Short but mighty playable MMO races
I like short races in MMOs. Not exclusively, but if there is an option to go small or go home, you can bet that...
Over the weekend, Stars Reach crowdfunding topped $600K and unlocked the rollerblading Fae species
With just a little over a week to go in its crowdfunding campaign, Raph Koster's sci-fi sandbox Stars Reach crossed the $600,000 threshold on...
Split Fiction, a new co-op adventure game from Hazelight, is out now with full crossplay
If you were one of the people who really enjoyed It Takes Two and were hoping for another game along the same lines, good...
The Daily Grind: How often do you update your Steam reviews of MMOs and multiplayer games?
MMO veteran Scott Hartsman recently skeeted a gamedev article about Steam reviews, specifically looking at the data on whether or not spending time replying...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: QANGA, Urban Dead, Voxile, and Cyborg Immortal
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you've never heard of!
QANGA
QANGA is a new-to-us multiplayer sci-fi survivalbox from iolaCorp Studio...
Raph Koster’s Stars Reach has launched its $200,000 crowdfunding campaign (and now it’s fully funded)
If you're seeing these words, then the Kickstarter for Stars Reach is finally live.
Longtime readers will know we've been covering this game since...
Star Citizen fans have put together a size comparison of in-game planets and real-world ones
Have you ever sat down and wondered, "Man, I wonder how the various planets in the Stanton system of Star Citizen compare to the...
World of Warcraft has likely made millions from its $90 pay-to-win dino mount
Last October, World of Warcraft elected to celebrate its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 mount with mail and auction house features baked in....
Unity game developers share optimistic outlooks for the industry in 2025
With the absolute bloodbath of layoffs in 2024 and some worrying trends to start off the year, it's easy to presume that the gaming...
For Science: GDC’s annual gamedev survey reflects anger with layoffs, disdain for gen AI
GDC's annual survey of the devs in the game industry is out today, with data reflecting polling and comments from over 3000 game developers.
"The...
Working As Intended: Stars Reach could be the demographic revolution MMORPGs need
When Raph Koster started talking in Discord on Saturday night, I was super annoyed because I knew I was going to lose my whole...
Participation metrics suggest World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ dungeon runs are at an ‘all-time low’
If you've been finding it harder to form a Mythic+ dungeon group in World of Warcraft: The War Within, it would appear that it's...
Gaming psychologist believes 2025 will bring ‘a new era of safety by design for our digital playgrounds’
We've written more than a few times about the effect of harassment, hate speech, and other toxic behaviors in MMOs and online gaming spaces...
Marvel Rivals Season 1 brings the entire Fantastic Four and a Dracula theme on January 10
The launch of hero shooter Marvel Rivals didn't have any shortage of choices in its roster, but when Season 1: Eternal Night Falls goes...
Final Fantasy XI plans more solo play support in 2025 following its survey of the playerbase
The most recent adventurer survey for 22-year-old Final Fantasy XI got over 13,000 responses from players, and the development team has shared the results....
Warframe of Mind: Appreciating the opaque nonsense of Warframe’s storytelling
Back in 2018, I played Warframe for the first time as part of Choose My Adventure, and I knew that it was going to...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2024
If you've been reading MassivelyOP for a while, you probably know that we like science kind of a lot around here, and there's no...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
Star Trek Online rings in the holidays with the return of Q’s Winter Wonderland
It's Christmastime in the final frontier yet again! That's because Star Trek Online has reopened the Q's Winter Wonderland event zone with returning events...
