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EVE Online will run a PLEX for GOOD charity campaign to support victims of Australian bushfires
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I answered an email from an Australian reader (hi Jack!) and mused on how odd it...
Massively Uplifting: Gaming studios and communities support kids, trees, cats, STEM, and gaming grandparents
While there are understandably many reasons folks may not want to look back on 2019 fondly, the year wasn't all bad. Massively Uplifting has...
RIFT players sponsor an elaborate contest to build cave dimensions
Yesterday, we watched in bemusement as our piece about MMOs people want to play in 2020 blew up on Twitter, specifically with former RIFT...
Star Wars comes to Star Trek Online thanks to some creative use of the character builder
Sometimes, we have to thank those who have too much free time on their hands, especially when it turns out fun things for others...
Chewbacca has a Life Day message for Star Wars Galaxies Legends fans
We all know that the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator has a special place in many players' hearts. Heck, even having the thing online...
Star Citizen fan says he spent $31,000 on the game following a near-death experience
Gather round, Star Citizen skeptics and superfans, because it's story time over on the game's subreddit.
Redditor ILMsux has posted a gripping story about a...
Star Trek Online fans mourn Deep Space Nine actor René ‘Odo’ Auberjonois
Another one of Star Trek's greats has fallen, as news broke out yesterday that Deep Space Nine actor René Auberjonois passed away from lung...
Elder Scrolls Online players raise over $200k during the Slay Dragons Save Cats charity campaign
Well done, playerbase of The Elder Scrolls Online. You slew dragons, you saved cats, and you had a hand, however small, in raising over...
Pantheon’s Visionary Realms and Brad McQuaid’s family are sponsoring a design scholarship in his memory
Given that Visionary Realms has already made clear its commitment to continuing development of Pantheon in the wake of studio head Brad McQuaid's untimely...
Fans are invited to a real-world memorial for Brad McQuaid later this month
MMORPG fans have been in mourning for the last few weeks following the death of Brad McQuaid, one of the most popular veteran developers...
WoW’s alpaca adoption promo, Hearthstone’s Winter Veil, and Heroes of the Storm’s Deathwing update
Diablo IV isn't the only thing getting big news from Blizzard this week - the studio's busy in most of its other big games...
A Jesuit priest is trying out a Vatican Minecraft server to encourage non-toxic behavior
We're familiar with the ways that online games, even generally rather innocent ones like Minecraft, can wind up being breeding grounds for some of...
Massively Uplifting: MMO fundraisers, GW2 raid class, and saving trees and cats
Being grateful isn't relegated to just one month, but November is when many people -and gamers - double-down on the things they are thankful...
A teenage CS:GO player has developed an AI that has successfully found 14,000 cheaters
While cheaters may never prosper, they also have a tendency to proliferate if not kept in check (and even sometimes when companies do try...
ExileCon 2019: Summing up Path of Exile’s epic inaugural con (plus all our photos!)
Other than the pre-con jitters of devs unsure what to expect or how things would ultimately go, you wouldn't know that ExileCon 2019 was...
Fans hold a solemn memorial of Brad ‘Aradune’ McQuaid during a livestream
The death of developer Brad McQuaid is still being acutely felt by many in the MMO gaming community, and no more is that apparent...
Dual Universe shows off a community race from the Earth to the moon and back
The thing that keeps me intrigued about sandboxes is the fact that the community can come together to create its own events, and one...
World of Warships players and devs are helping to rescue and repair an historic warship in real life
Oh man, this has been a rough week, and I'm so glad to be covering this instead of something bad: Cyprus-based games company Wargaming...
Torchlight Frontiers fan creates a build calculator as community waits for launch
The tantalizing wait through Torchlight Frontiers' development and testing continues, but one fan has made the waiting more bearable with a build calculator for...
Neverwinter hands out a freebie to ticket holders of a special Dungeons and Dragons charity livestream
Neverwinter has decided to provide a little extra incentive of its own for those who purchase tickets to the special Dungeons and Dragons charity...
