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One Shots: Screenshots big enough to wallpaper your house
Obviously due to column width limitations, we have a fixed pixel size for screenshots here at Massively OP. But that doesn't stop some of...
The Stream Team: A hippity hoppity Easter in ARK
If there are unicorns in ARK, why can't there be Easter Bunnies? Even if Studio WildCard doesn't roll out a holiday event this weekend...
The Stream Team: Raiding the pirate ship in Conan Exiles
OK, so maybe the deserts of Conan Exiles don't really have a pirate ship, but there is an area filled filled with what amounts...
Hellion wants its systems to be breaking down more
Hellion has a systems problem, in that its in-game systems are just too darn functional and well-maintained. That would be terrific news if you...
Osiris: New Dawn’s April patch boasts level design, melee, and dungeon improvements
Survival sandbox Osiris: New Dawn has a new dev post and video out this week discussing just what is coming in its "massive" next...
Rend’s mix-and-match class system is deeper than it appears
Start small, grow wide: This is the class philosophy in the upcoming survival sandbox Rend. While there are only four classes in the game,...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond
As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
Rend aims to boost its survival sandbox community with three-faction PvP
Frostkeep Studios has another dev blog out this week explaining how Rend will improve on traditional survival sandboxes. How? Factions.
The studio's Jordan Leithart argues...
Life is Feudal patches its survival sandbox variant with (some of) its MMO features
We don't often see co-developed MMOs and survival sandboxes where the game that's smaller in scope gets the content second, but that's exactly how...
Conan Exiles goes on sale for 20% off, recaps its update progress so far
It's been a whirlwind spring for Conan Exiles, with the survival sandbox racking up hundreds of thousands of sales while pumping out updates left...
The Stream Team: Continuing Conan Exiles’ first dungeon
Last time, Massively OP's MJ delved into Conan Exiles' first dungeon but ran out of time before completing it. The group has figured out...
LOTRO Legendarium: Playing second fiddle to the Fellowship
Back when Lord of the Rings Online was being developed as Middle-earth Online in the late 1990s, the original concept was to plop players...
Conan Exiles wants to know what you want, what you really really want
What do you think about Conan Exiles so far? Because your opinion matters to the development team. Not in a vague, abstract sense, but...
The Stream Team: New raft-destroying danger in ARK’s deep
If you thought life was safe out in the middle of ARK's water on your raft, think again! Now, there's a raft-munching monstrosity that...
The Stream Team: Attempting Conan Exile’s first dungeon
Conan Exiles has just introduced its first dungeon into the game, and Massively OP's MJ wants to go check it out. Of course, she...
Massively Overthinking: It’s the end of The Secret World as we know it
I think I can speak for most of our staff in saying that in November when Funcom first promised a "major upgrade to both retention and...
Rend wants to fix the fatal flaws of survival sandboxes
It should be quite obvious that the developers over at Rend are huge survival sandbox fans, because why else would you make a game...
The Survivalist: ARK’s big bird nerf
I know I said part two of the survival guide, containing a host of single-player survival games, would be the next entry in this...
Conan Exiles adds a new sewer dungeon for you to die in with today’s update
Funcom's been a busy little bee this week, so pry your eyes away from Secret World Legends for a minute for a peek at...
H1Z1 adds more east coast servers, new team follow cam
Here's an unfortunate scenario: You are taking part in an elimination-style match and you have just been killed. What is there to do next?...
