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Massively Overthinking: Do cross-IP collabs and promos in MMOs bother you?
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...
GDC’s State of the Game Industry: NFTs, the metaverse, and more than half of game devs want to unionize
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...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons guild hall, Echovald Wilds, and strike mission
With Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons expansion set to launch some time in February and the beginning of that month looming on the...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2021
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...
Richard Bartle’s new book seeks to intersect theological thought and MMORPG design
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...
The Massively OP Podcast in review, 2021 edition
Recap of all shows released over the course of 2021.
Ship of Heroes showcases trick or treat event ahead of December beta
As the Halloween season draws to a close in MMO land, the devs working on Ship of Heroes would like to take followers out...
Bossa Studios introduces three new multiplayer titles: Project Meru, Darkseekers, and Room of Doom
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...
Vague Patch Notes: Anonymity is not why people are awful online
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...
Star Trek Online is hosting its first ever Halloween event starting on October 13
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...
One Shots: Boom, said the world
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...
Closers reopens the Gremory Science Facility in latest event
Players of the action MMO Closers are being asked to help a scientist lady who wears an oversized lab coat, a hoodie for a...
Gamescom 2021 touts over 70 devs and publishers, highlights panels on education and societal change
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...
For Science: Men roll more female characters than women roll male toons, new survey shows
Do you play MMO characters who reflect your gender in real life? Apparently, the answer depends a bit on which gender and how old...
The Daily Grind: Do you engage in ‘parallel play’ in MMORPGs?
Thanks to a random Tweet in my timeline a while back, the term "parallel play" has been rattling around in my brain lately. According...
Massively Uplifting: Summer goodness from SOLO, EVE, Bungie, Warframe, and Guild Wars
When the news gets filled with dark and horrible things (and maybe you start to be disgusted with companies and people), it is natural...
Tower of Fantasy is a new MMO from Perfect World Entertainment with a sci-fi bent
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...
MassivelyOP interview: Talking ship design with Star Trek Online’s Donny Versiga
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: Navigating player behaviors and cheating in online video games
GDC 2021 has now offered several panels on player behavior and cheating that are aimed at devs but still provide some good information for...
GDC 2021: Research on online video game voice chat has come a long way
Covering studies about video gamers often reveals a glaring problem with the science on the topic: Most of it looks has traditionally surveyed text...
