Indie studio known primarily for ARK: Survival Evolved.
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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...
The Stream Team: Raiding ARK: Extinctions drops
Drops on ARK: Extinction are quite different than on any of the other maps. Instead of a floating box gracefully descending for a survivor...
Tame dinos in ARK Survival Evolved on the Switch starting… today
It's launch day for ARK Survival Evolved... on the Switch, that is. Do note that it includes the original base game and hasn't been...
The Survivalist: ARK’s Extinction makes bases extinct
It had to be too good to last! We were all pretty shocked when Studio WildCard actually launched ARK's newest expansion on the right...
The Stream Team: ARK Extinction on ice
You've heard of the Thunderdome? ARK: Extinction has the ice dome. Well, it has two domes, but Massively OP's MJ loves ice and snow....
The Survivalist: Giving thanks for survival, from the genre to Conan Exiles
Since my column falls on Thursday, I always have the honor of sharing in the spirit of Thanksgiving by discussing what I am grateful...
First impressions of Fallout 76: The confusion that binds all gamers together
When something looks familiar and seems familiar yet is slightly and significantly different, it can really break your stride and cause you to stumble....
The Stream Team: More getting lost in ARK: Extinction
When we last left Massively OP's Chris, he had inadvertently become ARK: Survival Extinction's greatest hide-and-seek master as he tried to come to grips...
The Stream Team: Enlisting some ARK enforcers
Massively OP's MJ has a tech stego and some monkeys, but she really wants her very own enforcer! So far it is the closest...
The Stream Team: First steps in ARK’s new Extinction
Who wants to wait for Saturday to check out ARK's new Extinction expansion when it launched last night? Not Massively OP's MJ! So she's...
