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MMO Business Roundup: PAX Online, PAX Aus, games for ADHD, Epic’s $17B valuation
Welcome back to another quick roundup of video games business and industry news that bumps into our little old MMO genre over here.
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The Daily Grind: Do you eat while playing MMORPGs?
Back in May, Newzoo came out with a report that asserts something like four in five gamers across the world are also busy stuffing...
EVE Online’s Project Discovery initiative tasks players with helping research COVID-19
The novel coronavirus is still out there and it's still a problem, and EVE Online players are being tapped to help out thanks to...
Choose My Adventure: Star Trek Online and my hunger for a space MMO
My installation of Star Citizen isn't working right, and Elite Dangerous has some neat things going on but not the right kind of hooks...
Wisdom of Nym: So, if there is a Final Fantasy XVI…
It's been about a year since I wrote about Naoki Yoshida's mystery project, which still has not actually been announced in any way and...
Choose My Adventure: Taking the new Warbird for a spin in Star Trek Online
It was unanimous: We were meant to be Romulans and continue with the storyline that we were following in Star Trek Online. The voting...
Choose My Adventure: New ships, New Romulus, and a new gun in Star Trek Online
So the past poll was a 50/50 split, but I'm curious if that's because regular Star Trek Online players knew what was coming.
Considering the...
Neverwinter and Star Trek Online sell special packs to benefit charity
Perfect World Entertainment has joined in on the philanthropic efforts to help those get the mental and physical health services they need with the...
CCP intensifies fight against COVID-19, hopes EVE Online will ‘outlive us all’
With EVE Online celebrating its 17th anniversary, it would stand to reason that CCP Games' CEO Hilmar Petursson would have a few things to...
Choose My Adventure: The first steps as a Romulan in Star Trek Online
In last week's column, I mentioned that the start of our Star Trek Online journey would not be done alone, and sure enough I've...
Choose My Adventure: Seriously, the Roblox community is pretty impressive
Over the course of my time in Roblox for this round of Choose My Adventure, I've come to appreciate the value of community creativity....
Lineage II launches the Dawn of Heroes update with your own ready-made homunculi
The latest update for Lineage II has arrived, and it brings with it the option to make your own homunculus to tag along beside...
Perfect Ten: Sports-themed MMOs
Here's something we don't talk about much here on Massively OP: sports games. When we think of "MMOs," we tend to run right toward...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands datamining continues with NPC races and gear sets
The words of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have remained with us for years: "Nothing better shows my taste than what I wear below my...
For Science: Steam just told on itself with its new games performance analysis
Steam has long been regarded as a pit of doom, loaded with asset flips and scams, where where indies go to die and MMO...
Fractured’s next round of alpha testing adds social features, new abilities, and stealth gameplay
In what's likely a happy surprise for backers of the sandbox MMORPG Fractured, the next round of alpha testing is going to introduce a...
Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be
"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
Star Trek Online invites players to take part in the design of the next summer event ship
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, players...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...
For Science: New paper examines the whos and whys of online trolling
MOP reader Miol recently pointed us to an intriguing academic paper on trolling. Seriously. "Trolls" or "warriors of faith"? Differentiating dysfunctional forms of media...
