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Elite Dangerous unveils 2024 plans for powerplay rework, next Thargoid War step, and ‘at least’ four new ships
The playerbase of Elite Dangerous is waking up to some unique emotions today: a sense of hope and excitement for the spaceship sandbox. That's...
GDC’s 2024 industry survey: Game devs weigh in on AI, layoffs, unionization, RTO, and more
Every year, GDC conducts an industry-wide survey of game developers and compiles the results in its State of the Game Industry, the 2024 edition...
Elite Dangerous player summarizes the playable Thargoid War content added throughout 2023
Looking through the updates made to Elite Dangerous in 2023, you'd be forgiven for believing that Frontier Developments spent all of its time fixing...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
The Daily Grind: What was the best event in the MMO genre in 2023?
We used to run this Daily Grind as an award but canned it when we had a hard time summoning enough really stellar events...
Elite Dangerous’ Frontier declares it’s ‘getting back on track’ by re-focusing on new and existing simulation titles
Elite Dangerous developer Frontier Developments is using its 2023 annual investor report to proclaim that it's "getting back on track," as it decides that...
Star Citizen’s second day of CitizenCon shows updates to character creation, FPS gameplay, flight, and frontier locations
With day two of CitizenCon now closed, everything that's currently in the works for Star Citizen has been shared by CIG, and we're here...
Elite Dangerous’ Frontier Developments readies a round of layoffs
It certainly seems like we've in the thick of layoff season right now, what with Epic Games, Twitch, and Cryptic all letting personnel go...
Elite Dangerous Update 17 brings forth another laundry list of fixes and continued tease of ‘louder rumbling’
“The rumbling got quieter and then much, much louder," read the not-very-jumbled word jumble in Elite: Dangerous' timing announcement for Update 17. That jumble...
Elite Dangerous outlines patch timing and teases October 16’s Update 17
What's coming in Update 17 for Elite: Dangerous? We don't know yet; Frontier Developments always puts out the patch notes on the day of...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most chaotic behavior you’ve seen from MMO players?
A week or two ago, I found myself discussing Ultima Online by way of trying to convince our work chat that players often do...
The Cycle Frontier sunsets today as studio YAGER says goodbye to players, literally
Back in June, we learned the sad news that Tencent-backed YAGER would be sunsetting its PvEvP shooter The Cycle Frontier, owing in part to...
Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs
This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...
One Shots: Bumping into an old, old friend
When you log back into an MMORPG after a long time away, that feeling of being an intruding stranger is pretty strong. But you...
Elite Dangerous addresses a laundry list of Update 16 issues in latest bug-squashing patch
It appears to be the same ol' song and dance out of Elite: Dangerous: Frontier releases an update to the game is released, and...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ideal MMO aesthetic?
I had to giggle a while back when a Blizzard developer described Diablo IV's aesthetic as "dark noodles." That's just so perfect, and it...
Elite Dangerous Update 16 adds a mystery feature, squashes multiple bugs, and pays tribute to a former dev
Today is another patch day for Elite: Dangerous, and if you were hoping for some mystery, then you're in luck because Update 16's patch...
Elite Dangerous dates Update 16 for August 1, releases an updated launcher, and halts investigation of some bugs
It's been some time since headlines have come out of the internet spaceship playground of Elite: Dangerous, but this week has seen a few...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs that are worth their dreadful early gameplay
I think many of us are primed to roll our eyes at anyone who says "oh man, just keep playing, it gets better later...
