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Transmedia synergy. Let's just lead with that. We have a long tradition around here of teasing MMOs for jamming in these weird promotions with...

Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...

With Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons expansion set to launch some time in February and the beginning of that month looming on the...

It's now become a long-running tradition on Massively OP to track science stories that track with online gaming and MMOs - this is our...

If you're new to our genre, first of all welcome, and second of all you should be familiar with Dr. Richard A. Bartle, a...

It's hard to believe it, but 2021 was the year that the Massively OP Podcast surpassed the Massively Speaking Podcast that came before it...

As the Halloween season draws to a close in MMO land, the devs working on Ship of Heroes would like to take followers out...

It's been a while since we covered what Bossa Studios has been up to, and that's because it sunsetted the closest thing it had...

One of the intentions of the Vague Patch Notes column is to have a place to share things that we're going to need to...

Halloween has not traditionally been something that Star Trek Online celebrates, and for good reason; when you have the power of a Federation starship at...

You'd think that a world that's already been nuked into a radioactive wasteland wouldn't need any additional bombs lobbed at its surface, but several...

Players of the action MMO Closers are being asked to help a scientist lady who wears an oversized lab coat, a hoodie for a...

While this year's Gamescom is going to be different as it's forced to go all-digital due to COVID-19, the event itself is going to...

Do you play MMO characters who reflect your gender in real life? Apparently, the answer depends a bit on which gender and how old...

Thanks to a random Tweet in my timeline a while back, the term "parallel play" has been rattling around in my brain lately. According...

When the news gets filled with dark and horrible things (and maybe you start to be disgusted with companies and people), it is natural...

Ah, Tower of Fantasy, a perfect title for a game that actually looks to be more science-fiction inspired than fantasy-inspired. Here, let's get your...

If you play Star Trek Online, you know that ship collecting is one of the major pastimes of captains all over the Federation and...

GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...

Covering studies about video gamers often reveals a glaring problem with the science on the topic: Most of it looks has traditionally surveyed text...