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In what's likely a happy surprise for backers of the sandbox MMORPG Fractured, the next round of alpha testing is going to introduce...

"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me...

The summer event ships in Star Trek Online are a long-standing tradition, but this year Cryptic Studios is doing something different. In prior years,...

Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused...

MOP reader Miol recently pointed us to an intriguing academic paper on trolling. Seriously. "Trolls" or "warriors of faith"? Differentiating dysfunctional forms of...

My Twitter feed was on fire about three things today: politics, coronavirus, and violence in video games. The last entry there is all because...

Care to see what's next for the rogue server of City of Heroes? Then get thee hence to the game's test server...

A couple years back (this being the definition where "a couple" means "I can't remember precisely how many"), I was talking with a friend...

This might just be the coolest Star Trek Online giveaway we've ever done, and we've done a lot of 'em! In celebration of...

So, apparently all the stories last week about how Anthem still hadn't taken down its Christmas decorations struck a nerve, and we've got...

There's a new log on the continually burning fire regarding gaming lootboxes, their association with gambling, and their effect on young people. A new...

Generally, but not always, I like to have a science fiction (or science fantasy, if we're being pedantic) MMORPG in my gaming rotation for...

Last week, we reported on a PLEX for GOOD charity event being run by EVE Online to benefit the Australian brush fires...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Tencent: Just before Funcom and Tencent announced the Chinese gaming giant was angling...

One of the uplifting victories for the genre in 2019 was the fact that a couple of unorthodox titles were pretty successful in...

At this week's live reveal of the Dark Heart of Skyrim for The Elder Scrolls Online, I had the chance to sit...

It's been something like a year and a half since we last covered Darwin Project, but you'll remember it as one of...

Earlier this week, we wrote about Skyrim's "gaming grandma" and other older gamers who've staked out claims in the online gaming space on...

While there are understandably many reasons folks may not want to look back on 2019 fondly, the year wasn't all bad. Massively Uplifting has...

Since becoming MassivelyOP, our staff has worked hard to buff up our gaming science-related articles. Last year, we noted...