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The research and science continues in the case of lockbox/lootbox purchasing habits and gambling addiction. The latest piece of scientific literature on the subject...

ArtCraft Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Design Director Thomas Blair are back on YouTube answering Crowfall questions from high-end backers and players...

Although a burst water main wreaked saturating terror on the offices of The Repopulation dev Idea Fabrik last month, that hasn't stopped the...

I've been thinking a lot about esports lately. This is not actually something I like to think about, mind you; my general attitude toward esports...

It may not be as far-flung as some of Destiny's previous settings have been, but the moon holds an undeniable appeal for science fiction...

Recently, Massively Overthinking explored chores in sandboxes and MMOs that can feel like jobs. I may not have answered that then, but...

The World Health Organization has officially adopted a revision to its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) to include "Gaming...

Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others...

Time marches on, and it seems only appropriate that you cannot spend your time playing a futurist-looking science fiction series like Star Trek Online...

With Star Trek Online's Rise of Discovery live and officially launched for PC, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies...

Starfleet's ruthlessly goal-focused Section 31 tends to stick in the memories of fans; it's a shadowy organization that seems to be at once everywhere...

Welcome back to another quick roundup from the land of games industry business... Remember in 2016 when former World of Warcraft lead designer

Over the last couple of years, we've been covering the science behind gaming addiction and more specifically the World Health Organization's attempt to insert...

One of the refrains bleated by those who dislike esports is that competitors are not "real" athletes. This appears to be a similar idea...

In real life, as near as we can tell from the science, the only place you get transported to when you enter a black...

We've previously covered CCP Games' Hilmar Petersson's comments on not giving up after all EVE Online's unsuccessful spinoffs, including most recently

Enplex Games' upcoming survival MMO Population Zero has thus far distinguished itself from other multiplayer survival titles with features including a hand-crafted world,...

With an overview of its node system done, the Ashes of Creation team is going deeper to explain the different types of evolving...

Adventure Academy is going to mystify the typical gamer: There are no dragons to fight and no lockboxes to fight over. But if...

Welcome back to another edition of the MMO Business Roundup, random bits of industry news that are interesting but probably not worth their own...