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I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...

In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...

The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...

Quantic Foundry's series of blog posts in support of its Gamer Motivation Model continue with its most recent piece on open world games, which...

Are you a fan of Tetris but wish it were more free-form and connected to an MMO's world building tool kit? Yeah, neither am I,...

Mo's been collecting letters to the editor for me to address in Ask Mo for the past month or two, and this one from...

A reader named Rob provides this week's Massively Overthinking topic. It's a really good one! "Why isn't playing an old MMO from a previous decade...

If you're among the legions of Trekkies, then you are almost certainly aware of Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online. Since early 2010, players have...

Update: We have continued our reporting on this story here. Yesterday, an eagle-eyed reader noticed that Divergence Online had seemingly been pulled from Steam and...

Hello. My name is is MJ. And I have a golem problem. Boy, The Secret World got me good -- hook, line, and sinker. By the...

I have a terrible confession to make: I was about to write off Elder Scrolls Online. I was going to consider it dead to...

The Firefall migration drama is finally over. The servers went down for their planned one-day outage on January 19th for the massive Razor's Edge update,...

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, before I worked for Massively, I called up SOE. I wanted to move my Star Wars...

If you've listened to Massively's staff and readers talk about Star Wars Galaxies a little bit, you might come away with the impression that...

A few weeks ago, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wrote about the intersection of social anxiety and MMOs. It was a surprisingly popular article, with gamers...

If you've been waiting over the last week for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release, wait no longer:...

Still waiting for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release? Stained Glass Llama's Ethan Casner is too. While we...

Ex-Daybreak President John Smedley took to Twitter last night to throw his support behind MMO emulator projects. While most studios publicly ignore or condemn these...

Sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online is on the way to Steam's early access program -- at least, it will be when someone at Valve wakes...

We gave out a lot of awards this month for things games did in 2015, and we talked about what we think will happen...