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PAX West 2017: ARK announces underground Aberration expansion with ziplines and spelunking
With an expansion and official launch released in that order, ARK: Survival Evolved is busy at work on its next expansion. Announced at PAX...
The Daily Grind: What wishful-thinking PAX West MMORPG announcement would blow you away?
Massively OP's MJ Guthrie is at PAX West (formerly known as PAX Prime, a much catchier name if you ask me!) for us this...
ARK Survival Evolved suffers launch-day overcrowding, optimization issues.
How weird is it not to categorize this ARK: Survival Evolved post under alphas and beta? Pretty weird.
Funcom celebrates ‘most profitable half-year’ in studio’s history and changes logo
Pop the cork and down some champagne, because Funcom is on a roll. In today's Q2 2017 investors report, the studio crowed that it...
The Stream Team: ARK has launched!
Yes, it actually happened: ARK has finally launched. It's like the world is ending or something! For those on official servers, their world pretty...
Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories
Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
Fortnite’s survival update dares you to outlast a storm for a literal fortnite
After the wacky deluge of gotta-launch-before-school-starts releases creating a pileup on the video game interstate yesterday, one might almost have missed Fortnite's big update,...
Microsoft encourages industry to talk about crossplay cooperation
If games industry giants can be seen as extremely territorial siblings, each jealously guarding his or her own possessions and unwilling to work with...
World of Warcraft rockets to Argus in patch 7.3 today
At last year's BlizzCon, when Blizzard first announced World of Warcraft fans would someday be trekking to Argus, it seemed so distant to many...
ARK Survival Evolved launches today; get caught up here with the trailer and roundup!
Try to hold back your shock: Sci-fi-dino-themed survival sandbox ARK Survival Evolved is really, truly, launching today, so put all those delay gripes and...
Black Desert launches a tower defense mode dubbed Sealed Tower tomorrow
Tomorrow's Black Desert update will make the new biweekly cadence all worthwhile. Its headline feature? Savage Rift, a de facto co-op tower defense minigame...
The Stream Team: Apes and dragons in an ARK raid double-header
The latest raid on ARK's Broodmother went so well that Massively OP's MJ and the group are excited to take a stab at the...
The Stream Team: Going toward the light in Conan Exiles
During her exploration of Conan Exile's new Frozen North expansion, Massively OP's MJ saw lights in what looked like windows in the distance up...
Massively Overthinking: The survivalbox vs. the MMORPG
A few weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, the team discussed the resurgence in popularity of small-scale co-op games and whether that has impacted the...
Gamescom 2017: ARK Survival Evolved’s launch trailer has otters
No more delays: ARK Survival Evolved launches next week on August 29th, and Studio Wildcard brought a trailer to Gamescom to razzle-dazzle the dino-loving audience. It's...
Gamescom 2017: Star Citizen goes in-depth on the alpha 3.0 delay issues
With the high drama and surly community demanding Star Citizen 3.0 already, it's made for a slightly awkward Gamescom appearance for the crew.
On the...
Everything you need to know about World of Warcraft 7.3: Shadows of Argus
In keeping with its bizarrely predictable pattern of releasing a major update every 77 days during the Legion expansion cycle, Blizzard is about ready...
Fortnite prepares for one heck of a storm in Aug 29 update
A storm is rolling into Fortnite next week, and it's promising to be a doozy.
The zombie survival game is prepping its "Survive the Storm"...
ARK Survival Evolved is nuking low pop servers in just one week
ARK Survival Evolved is gearing up for launch, finally, which means it's now beginning to shelve some of the low pop servers across all...
ARK won’t be featuring console crossplay any time soon
Friends and family separated by gaming platforms won't be coming together for a joyous reunion any time soon if they're playing ARK: Survival Evolved.
Crossplay...
