Indie studio known primarily for ARK: Survival Evolved.
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The Survivalist: Seven survival game features I want to see in 2019
A new year is all about new hopes, new goals, and -- hopefully -- new features and content. I am talking about games, of...
The Stream Team: A forest flight in ARK: Extinction
One of the very last places Massively OP's MJ has to explore in ARK's Extinction map is the massive forest underneath the city. And...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs to watch in 2018
Love it or hate it, MMOs are going mobile in ever-increasing numbers. Last year saw a crop of acclaimed titles making their way to...
The Stream Team: Getting the drop on ARK: Extinction drops
Massively OP's MJ loves presents that drop from the sky. However, other than Raptor Claws she has yet to participate in an ARK: Extinction...
Atlas developers apologize for ‘stormy start,’ promise rapid improvements
With the kind of buggy and chaotic launch that Atlas displayed over the past week, it was inevitable that the studio finally came out...
Steam lists Elder Scrolls Online, Black Desert, and Warframe among 2018’s best sellers
While not technically an awards show, Steam's "Best of 2018" page effectively serves as one as it looks at the best-selling and most-played titles...
Atlas struggles to right a ship that is carrying thousands of hopeful players as the global pirate war begins
If you predicted that Atlas' launch would be a hot mess, then give yourself a hearty pat on the back (and, really, join the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018
Everyone loves surprises, right? Not always. Even good surprises can be a disruption of our comfortable routines, and bad ones can downright ruin a...
The Stream Team: Celebrating Christmas in ARK
Just because Massively OP's MJ needs to fight for her life amid monstrous corrupted dinos that want to tear her face off doesn't mean...
The continuing early access launch saga of Wildcard’s new pirate MMO Atlas
(We're updating this post at the bottom as the drama unfolds!)
Marking its third delay since its announcement just two weeks ago, Wildcard's pirate MMO Atlas...
Smilegate taps Mail.Ru to run Korean MMORPG Lost Ark in Russia as early access package sale goes live
Smilegate is continuing its global rollout of Lost Ark, now with the selection of a publisher for Russia and the CIS region, according to...
Interview: New World’s Rich Lawrence on solving PvP problems and defining the sandbox
I think it's fair to say that New World is the biggest MMO currently under production in the west, at least among those games...
Wildcard’s new pirate MMO Atlas has been delayed yet again
If you've been refreshing Atlas' Steam page all day today (guilty), you might have noticed that it didn't actually launch into early access as...
Pirate MMO Atlas is trying to psych you up for tomorrow’s early access launch
We here at Massively OP don't know everything there is about sailing, but we're guessing that in about thirty seconds, that giraffe up there...
More details emerge about Studio Wildcard’s Atlas as next week’s launch looms
Even with a slight delay, the launch of Studio Wildcard's Atlas has come out of nowhere this holiday season and sent many MMO gamers...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 200: Daybreak strikes back
Justin and Bree celebrate 200 episodes with discussion on site memories, plus Daybreak, Wildcard's Atlas, Ashes of Creation, Warframe, LOTRO and DDO, and Path of Exile, with mailbag topics on finding time to game and how studios should manage hype.
Wildcard’s new MMO Atlas has been delayed a week for polish
When Studio Wildcard and friends announced a full-scale, 40,000-person MMO called Atlas last week, we were all excited. When they announced it was launching...
The Stream Team: A day in ARK’s desert dome
Massively OP's MJ already took a trip to the ice dome on ARK's Extinction map, and it was pretty productive. So now can she...
ARK’s Studio Wildcard is launching a 40K-person-server pirate MMO called Atlas next week
If you blinked during the Game Awards on Twitch, you might have missed the announcement of a new MMO launching next week from the...
