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Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.

It was often remarked going in to this week’s Choose My Adventure task that base building in No Man’s Sky is something...

The behavior of people in online games does not appear to be improving for the better. According to national survey results from the...

A new University of Oxford study published this week suggests that there's a "positive relation between game play and well-being." The paper itself hasn't...

EVE Online is having a good run right about now. Not only is it busy enjoying topping its own Guinness World Records...

In the last few editions of the Massively-on-the-Go column, I've been covering the deluge of events and updates Pokemon Go has...

Let's all ignore the 15 weeks' worth of explosions, bubbles, and fighting going on in EVE Online and instead talk about friendship....

With Star Trek Online's House Shattered patch live for PC players, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP some bundles to pass...

What is the deadliest video game in existence? If a scientific whitepaper is to be believed, at least in the case of Tippecanoe...

Getting subscriber details for multiplayer and MMO titles out of companies can often be like pulling teeth out of an alligator's mouth with a...

Washington D.C. has fallen to the plague, curiously well-armed agents are everywhere, and intriguing music floats. The Division 2 features a tense and action-packed...

Tomorrow's patch day for Phantasy Star Online 2, SEGA announced today, complete with new trailer and pics too. Episode 5 begins tomorrow, meaning...

When you think of post-apocalyptic video games, what comes to mind? Most likely it's a crawl through a bombed-out or zombiefied landscape as you...

What's better than a science MMO story or a feel-good MMO story? One that's both. And this one is both, as EVE Online...

The next episode's worth of content is coming soon to Phantasy Star Online 2 as Episode 5 has been confirmed for a release...

So this one's fun. The results of a study performed in the UK between November and December of 2019 have just been released. The...

I've been kind of obsessed with dark patterns - that is, intentionally deceptive or annoying interface design - for kind of a while now,...

Players will have some new options for carrying support ships into battle in Star Trek Online on August 20th. The game is releasing...

Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games...

A broad variety of player questions regarding gameplay and mechanics were picked up and answered in what can be best described as a sort...