survival
Dark and Light opens master builder servers
One neat thing about survival sandboxes is that they seem to embrace a wider variety of rulesets than we typically see in most MMORPGs....
The Stream Team: Storming the castle in ARK: Ragnarok
Massively OP's MJ loves castles, and she loves exploring. Luckily for her, ARK's Ragnarok map combines them both! There's a castle overlooking Viking Bay...
The Stream Team: Speed building in Conan Exiles
Usually, building in Conan Exiles is a long process. Much of that time goes to gathering the materials. Crafting itself may be the quickest...
Conan Exiles deals with bed bugs while bringing the Xbox and PC into parity
After consuming the recent Conan Exiles newsletter, we are concerned that the Funcom team is succumbing to early winter madness over in Norway. At...
DayZ finally makes hard plans to leave early access and launch (beta) next year
Remember like 50 million years ago when DayZ was young, Dean Hall was at the top of everybody's interview list, and nobody realized the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
The Stream Team: Creeping through Conan Exiles’ second dungeon
Back when Massively OP's MJ saw lights in the distance in Conan Exiles' expansion, she ventured forward to discover the source. It turned out...
Conan Exiles continues work on combat overhaul and Xbox One parity with PC
On Black Friday, Funcom was working - well, it was streaming Conan Exiles, at least, which is sort of like working. The devs sit...
ARK: Aberration targets a December 12 release
Following at least two delays, ARK's next expansion finally has a release date of December 12th.
Aberration will take players spelunking in the most terrifying...
Just Survive gives players a choice of maps, hands out free reward crates
Just Survive, the H1Z1 castoff that is looking to... just survive, made a bold play this week with a significant update to some of...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017
Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year
It's kind of hard to be thankful this year. Sure, some good things have happened this year, but we also have some things that,...
H1Z1’s latest patch adds a new insta-respawn map and new dailies
Daybreak has big plans for H1Z1 -- that's the game formerly known as H1Z1: King of the Kill, you'll recall, as it was rebranded...
ARK: Survival Evolved players riot over turrets as Aberration is pushed to December
Over the weekend, Studio Wildcard posted up an ARK Survival Evolved dev blog about turrets. You guys, I had no idea turrets were such...
Fortnite plans to flesh out its PvE mode in December and January
I'm gonna be honest: When I saw the subheader "The future of Save the World" in the latest Fortnite dev blog, I expected what...
The Stream Team: Exploring the wilds and wildlife in Conan Exiles’ great white north
There's much of the land from the expansion that Massively OP's MJ has yet to explore in Conan Exiles, and she aims to correct...
Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...
Survivalbox roundup: The Black Death communicates, Hellion revamps, and Life is Feudal soft launches
Once you recover from the drive-by scorching of MJ's ARK: Survival Evolved critique, perhaps you're wondering what else is going on with survivalboxes in...
The Survivalist: ARK Survival Evolved’s sequel tease is an insult to its fans
You know that moment when you just can't take it anymore? I am there, right on the cusp. I know many folks have gotten...
Conan Exiles update scrubs out dupe bugs as servers are wiped
By Crom, Conan Exiles is under attack by dupe bugs! Funcom hurried to push Update 31 live yesterday to deal with the issue and...
