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Are MMOs and video games fulfilling our need for productivity?
Here is a question for you to ponder: Do MMOs make you feel more productive than your main job or school? If so, it...
Discover actual exoplanets and earn EVE Online rewards – without ever leaving the ship dock
Have you heard in passing this "Project Discovery" thing in EVE Online and wondered what it is all about? CCP put together a new...
Scientists say Pokemon Go helps relieve stress in Japanese workers
A new Japanese study in the acclaimed science journal Nature suggests that Pokemon Go players experienced a drop in "psychological distress" because of the game. The paper gives...
PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma
What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Amazing Eternals
If I had to pick a PAX West booth to give an award to for sheer fun factor, it would go to Digital Extremes’...
Overwatch: Behind the scenes of the Mei short, 14th comic ‘Wasted Land’
Everyone loves Mei; she's funny, cute, smart, soft, and just all-around cool. But she's different from the focus of previous Overwatch animated shorts because...
MMOARPG Wild Buster is selling founder packs on Indiegogo
Massively OP's Justin Olivetti joked that it sounded like a game by Mad Libs, but Wild Buster is in fact a sci-fi hack-and-slash MMOARPG being ported westward...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: NosTale, Aeon Rivals, War of Conquest, War40K Inquisitor Martyr
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you've never heard of! Tonight we have four titles to highlight.
NosTale
Remember...
Chaos Theory: What we want out of the Secret World Legends TV show
Wow. So I had no intention of crafting another Chaos Theory this week. I had plans. Other plans. But then the Secret World Legends...
Black Desert Korea introduces a skill fusion system
Have more than enough skills on your hotbar these days? Might as well mash them together and see what happens! Yes, it's like your...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Umbara is shrouded in darkness
Have you heard of the planet Umbara before? The Star Wars fan who has seen only the movies will likely say no, and even...
A Dota 2 pro was beaten by Elon Musk’s OpenAI bot during this year’s International
Dota 2's The International 7 tournament is over, having concluded this weekend by crowning EU group Team Liquid -- which arrived to the finals...
Video games can grow or shrink your brain, study finds
Does your brain feel a little lighter or heavier this week? It could be because of your gaming habits.
A recent study on video games...
No Man’s Sky dispatches Atlas Rises this week – for free
No Man's Sky is due for its third freebie patch, and it's coming this very week.
"We're calling it Atlas Rises," Hello Games says in an...
EVE Evolved: A massive war for revenge is brewing in EVE Online
Just over a year ago, the largest PvP conflict in gaming history kicked off in EVE Online as war erupted between the game's most prominent...
Survivalbox roundup: Hellion’s new servers, Life is Feudal beta stories, and Astroneer plunders planets for profit
It's time for a good dose of survivalbox news! Let's start with Hellion, which deployed new official servers in several regions across the world...
Elite Dangerous: A ground-pounding newbie’s perspective
Earlier this summer I wrote that Elite Dangerous' community events were something the MMO community should watch. Watch. I never said play, and I never ended...
SuperData’s mid-2017 report reflects a wildly expanding gaming industry
Gaming analysis firm SuperData is touting a new report for marketers today, shedding some light on the shape of the industry so far in...
Dean Hall’s Stationeers don’t want no scrubs
DayZ's Dean Hall says his new sci-fi survivalbox Stationeers is launching early access in September, and he isn't sugarcoating the game's difficulty.
You might remember...
MMO researcher Nick Yee is ‘dispeling myths about female gamers’
Quantic Foundry researcher and long-time MMO academic Nick Yee has an intriguing blog post out this week titled Dispelling Myths about Female Gamers in...
