• Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
  published on April 10th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can’t make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don’t have to go out of your way to offend people and put your worst face forward. For obvious reasons, MMO studios work hard to cultivate a positive reputation, but it’s a hard fact that any goodwill […]
  
• For Science: EVE Online’s Project Discovery initiative opens signups for mobile testing
  published on April 3rd, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  At EVE Fanfest last fall, CCP Games announced that its latest Project Discovery push would essentially set EVE Online players to training AI in the pursuit of curing cancer – as well as that it aimed to create a mobile app that would allow players to chip in for the cause even when they weren’t […]
  
• EVE Online is running a ‘mass test’ of shadow fixes and other improvements today
  published on March 27th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  How many of our EVE Online playing readers would like to test shadows? Then there’s good news for you because CCP Games is scheduling a “mass test” today – Wednesday, March 27th – on the Singularity test server to see if shadows are more performative. Woo-hah! Shadows! Facetiousness aside, the test in question is intended […]
  
• EVE Vanguard’s latest playtest adds a mining laser, resource gathering, and suppression contracts
  published on March 22nd, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Playtesting for the EVE Vanguard module within EVE Online is continuing once more this weekend, and it’s bringing several new feature updates for those who join in on this next run of the shooter’s mostly public playtest (i.e., this still is only for EVE subscribers). This current build of Vanguard introduces a new combat exosuit […]
  
• CCP Games’ blockchain EVE Online spinoff Project Awakening plots next test phase for May
  published on March 13th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  I can’t blame you if you can’t temper your skepticism for CCP’s Project Awakening, both because CCP Games is notorious for failed EVE Online-universe spinoffs and because this one’s a crypto blockchain… thing. Nevertheless, you still might want to know that game is heading into its third closed test in May. “Powered by the EVM-Compatible […]
  
• EVE Online adjusts spaceship balance as CSM member pivots on CCP’s Project Awakening NFT project
  published on February 26th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  With ships and interstellar warfare being expanded in EVE Online’s Havoc update, it was only a matter of time before some adjustment knobs were turned by CCP, and sure enough that tuning occurred last week as the internet spaceship gankbox applied several tweaks to weapons and ships. The latest patch notes as well as a […]
  
• Titan Forge’s EVE War for New Eden board game closed out a successful Kickstarter with $682K
  published on February 22nd, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  The EVE Online-themed board game has finished out its Kickstarter this week, pulling in roughly $682,000 US from backers – not that there was ever much question that it’d fund as it actually met its $54,000 funding goal in under an hour on the first day a month ago. The EVE: War for New Eden […]
  
• Pearl Abyss Q4 2023: Well at least EVE Online had a good financial year
  published on February 15th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Pearl Abyss, best known to MMO fans for Black Desert and CCP Games’ EVE Online, has continued its humdrum financial performance in Q4 2023, with overall revenues of 84.4B KRW ($63.5M US), down 18.1% since Q4 2022, though it stayed pretty steadily at that mark throughout the whole year (Q4 2022 was a big quarter […]
  
• The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you think shouldn’t be classified as an MMORPG?
  published on February 12th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  We have the MMORPG subreddit to thank for this morning’s Daily Grind: At the beginning of January, some bright spark over there posted a thread insisting that EVE Online, a long-running sci-fi MMORPG, is not in fact an MMORPG. Now, I didn’t click on the thread; insert the “I’m not falling for that hot take/that’s […]
  
• Black Desert talks up 300v300 War of the Roses PvP and today’s 15v15 Guild League
  published on February 7th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Black Desert is taking a page out of EVE Online’s playbook and promoting its mass-PvP systems – specifically, the War of the Roses pre-season event that ran last weekend, followed up by today’s 15v15 guild league launch. First, on Sunday, War of the Roses saw a “historic clash” between NA and EU guilds in a […]
  
• EVE Vanguard resumes playtesting, EVE Echoes changes ship insurance costs
  published on January 28th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  This weekend brings a couple of news pieces from the world of EVE Online, both in the PC and mobile versions of the game, with the former beginning its next leg of the Vanguard FPS testing and the latter adjusting the cost of insurance for internet spaceships. EVE Echoes has decided to bring the cost […]
  
• EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter is live – and it met its funding goal in under an hour
  published on January 25th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Apparently there are plenty of EVE Online fans who would like the board game version of the spaceship sandbox to be a thing. Yesterday as planned, Titan Forge launched the Kickstarter campaign to get the project off the ground, and it met its over $54K funding goal in under an hour, hitting over $190K in […]
  
• EVE Online plans two expansions, Vanguard tests, returning events, and a 21st anniversary in 2024 roadmap
  published on January 22nd, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  The content roadmaps continue to flow freely from our corner of gaming, as CCP Games has put out its full-year plan for EVE Online, which is headlined by two upcoming expansions, several upcoming events, and an overall emphasis on “conflict, identity, and community.” The internet spaceship gankbox’s first expansion will land sometime this summer with […]
  
• EVE Online tweaks Havoc insurgencies, preps monthly EVE Vanguard tests for subbers
  published on January 19th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  This week’s EVE Online patch builds on the Havoc expansion CCP Games dropped before the turn of the new year, with both graphical and mechanical updates – including the Ambition Modifier. Yes, that’s its real name. “Among the things announced on stage at Fanfest 2023, when the Havoc expansion was revealed, was the inclusion of […]
  
• The MOP Up: Magic Awakened deepens the mystery of Hogsmeade
  published on January 14th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Harry Potter: Magic Awakened rolled out its January patch with a new seasonal chapter, Luna Lovegood card, and a gauntlet mode to try. “Continue the Hogsmeade Season adventure as the next chapter of this thrilling story unfolds. The full moon is quickly approaching, learn the truth behind the mystery of Hogsmeade and the werewolves before […]
  
• Massively Overthinking: The 2023 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
  published on January 12th, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  This might be one of the most important Massively Overthinkings we do all year, and it’s a pretty salty one. We always come away from our awards season having picked out some of the worst imbroglios and scandals and disaster trainwrecks of the year, but there are only so many awards and fauxwards to go […]
  
• End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
  published on January 3rd, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  We’ve said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we’ve seen only a handful of longshot projects in development, 2024 suggests a field positively packed with game after game heading our way. Some of these are closer to release, some further away, but […]
  
• Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2023 edition
  published on January 1st, 2024 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Last night, we offered up our traditional list of all the reasons we can’t have nice things in the MMO genre and digitally roasted them in our New Year’s Eve bonfire. Not really, though. We need those posts for posterity. But this morning, it’s worth remembering that this genre is a nice place to be, […]
  
• The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2023
  published on December 28th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  This traditional roundup of the best Daily Grinds of the year is actually one of my favorites because it demonstrates just how long we’ve all been doing this gig. The very first Daily Grind on Old Massively was penned on November 3rd, 2007, which means that our staff has written exactly 5900 Daily Grinds to date, […]
  
• CCP Games maps out six months of EVE Vanguard patches, feature updates, and testing
  published on December 27th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Did you miss out on the Vanguard FPS testing that was held in EVE Online? Worry not because CCP Games has a whole lot more testing coming down the pike over the first six months of 2024 for you to hop in to. Assuming you’re a subscriber, anyway. The next playtest for Vanguard will kick […]
  
• MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Transmedia Synergy
  published on December 27th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Transmedia Synergy. Yes, it’s the Golden Yachties series, named in honor of those bright sparks absolutely convinced that video game blogging is a lucrative career and we’re all sailing ’round the world on ships of gold. (Stay in school, […]
  
• A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2023
  published on December 27th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  This month marks MOP’s ninth consecutive year covering science-related news specific to MMORPGs and MMOs, but like last year, there wasn’t nearly as much as the flurry of papers and politics over lockboxes, gambling, and demographics has given way to fighting back against AI’s excesses and crypto’s abuses. Indeed, our own Lawful Neutral columnist Andy […]
  
• End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2023
  published on December 20th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  If you want to look at the overall health of the MMORPG industry, one vital heartbeat that must not be missed is continual development. Sometimes, even, a fancy patch or expansion in a favorite MMO may be cause for greater celebration than the release of a brand-new title. It’s good to report to you that […]
  
• EVE Online deepens partnership with community content sharing platform Just About
  published on December 18th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  It’s been proven multiple times that EVE Online studio CCP Games chases shiny trends more readily than an easily distracted puppy, so perhaps the fact that the spaceship sandbox partnering up with the content sharing platform Just About won’t arrive as a surprise. Still, it’s an odd bit of bedfellows as the large gankbox puts […]
  
• EVE Online adds new ice refinery heists and AIR daily goals, calls its first Vanguard test ‘a massive success’
  published on December 13th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Havoc continues to reign and expand in EVE Online, as the spaceship gankbox has made a couple of additions related to the recent update that adds more things for piratical players to do and new AIR goals to chase. The latest update has introduced a new ice refinery heist mission for insurgency systems under Stages […]
  
• End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2023
  published on December 13th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Some years, it’s hard to really cut a distinction between the biggest stories of a year and the biggest surprises. There can be a lot of overlap. There’s always going to be some overlap, to boot. But sometimes there isn’t as much overlap. Sometimes a lot of the stories that had the biggest impacts aren’t […]
  
• Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
  published on December 8th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  We’ve been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the future (and also take some wild swings on the off-chance that we knock something unlikely out of the park). But of course, predictions are useful only when you bring them out […]
  
• EVE Online begins its four day-long Vanguard FPS mode test today
  published on December 7th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  It’s time to experience EVE Online from a different perspective: from inside of the skull of someone with a gun. For at least the fourth time. The EVE Vanguard “first strike” test has begun, running from today, December 7th, until Monday, December 11th, for those who are subscribers to the sandbox. “Frenetic, dynamic, and socially […]
  
• End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2023
  published on December 6th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  When it comes to making a judgment call about the “healthiest” MMORPGs on the market at any given time, there are always plenty of rebuttals on hand to denounce such a list. No MMO is in a perfect position with an untouchable record, after all, and there are always fault lines that could end up […]
  
• Global Chat: Why does CCP keep trying to make EVE shooters?
  published on December 5th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  We’re not the only ones who keep wondering why CCP continues to push for an FPS game set in the EVE Online universe. Long-time EVE player The Nosy Gamer listed several plausible explanations as to why this is the case. “Just as Elite Dangerous did with its Odyssey expansion, I believe CCP sees having some sort of […]
  
• The Daily Grind: What was the best event in the MMO genre in 2023?
  published on December 5th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  We used to run this Daily Grind as an award but canned it when we had a hard time summoning enough really stellar events to nominate. That wouldn’t have been the case this year; in 2023, we saw everything from major fan festivals for Final Fantasy XIV and Black Desert and Warframe to whole Sondheim […]
  
• EVE Online players have formed a new corporation led by ChatGPT
  published on December 4th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  It’s said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, so why trust all of the power of an EVE Online corporation to one human when you can have a chat AI do it instead? That’s (probably) the rationale behind the formation of Neural Nexus, a new corp in the spaceship sandbox that leaves its decision-making to ChatGPT. […]
  
• Indie Afrofantasy MMO Wagadu Chronicles has opened its early access doors today
  published on December 4th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  “Today is a big day. The Wagadu Chronicles is finally accessible to the world.” So begins Twin Drums’ announcement that its Afrofantasy MMORPG has officially entered early access. Readers will recall that the MMO first popped onto the scene back in the fall of 2020, when the Riot Games-backed indie developer raised nearly $200,000 in a […]
  
• EVE Online’s winter holiday events return next week with ‘glamorous gifts, games, and glory’
  published on November 30th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  You might not look to the likes of EVE Online for your dose of Christmas spirit, but CCP Games would like to change that – and given the game’s recent boost in players post-Havoc, you won’t be alone if you give it a go. That’s because the studio is preparing the Yoiul Festival, aka Winter […]
  
• CCP Games’ EVE Online-adjacent blockchain game Project Awakening confirms a December 6 playtest
  published on November 27th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Back in March we reported that CCP Games had begun development of Project Awakening, a blockchain game set within the EVE Online universe. The studio claims that the project will create “a new relationship between virtual worlds and players” through the use of “smart-contract blockchain technology” while CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson attempts to justify the […]
  
• CCP Games finally ends official support of the long-neglected EVE Portal mobile app
  published on November 27th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Longtime fans of EVE Online have likely noticed that the sandbox’s official EVE Portal mobile app has been in decline for a number of months – fellow blogger The Ancient Gaming Noob has chronicled some of the app’s degradation in a recent post – and now it looks as if the app’s declining performance is […]
  
• Global Chat: Tarisland is the real deal, folks
  published on November 26th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  As Tarisland winds its way through the beta process on its way to our grubby little hands in 2024, there are more and more people getting a look at this promising fantasy MMO. One of these is Bhagpuss of Inventory Full, who delivered a few more impressions lately. “Once again, I was struck by just […]
  
• EVE Online’s FPS module Vanguard will have its first test on December 7 for subscribers
  published on November 24th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  When CCP Games announced EVE: Vanguard, the FPS module that claims to link itself to EVE Online, many people expressed skepticism, particularly since the studio has tried to create modules and spin-offs from the internet spaceship gankbox multiple times and failed at every last one. However, players can see if perhaps the fifth time’s the […]
  
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 446: Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of MMOs
  published on November 21st, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Chris and Justin discuss Tarisland's beta, Perfect New World's beta, Pantheon 247 cancelation, SWTOR's Aussie server, EVE Online's Havoc, World of Warcraft's Seeds of Renewal, WoW Classic Hardcore, and WoW Classic Season of Discovery.
  
• EVE Online’s Havoc release sees player numbers swell over its launch weekend
  published on November 21st, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Sure, a new major update bringing in lots of players could be considered “water is wet” news, but the fact remains that last week’s Havoc update launch for EVE Online was a very busy one for the spaceship gankbox, with player numbers cresting into some impressive totals over the past weekend. One of the busiest […]
  
• The MOP Up: How about Final Fantasy XI’s new Vana’Bout?
  published on November 19th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Final Fantasy XI had a busy week with a November patch, that “includes changes to foes in Normal and Intense Ambuscades, a new battlefield and more. Square-Enix also announced a new event coming late November, named Vana’Bout — an amazing co-op campaign where players from all over the world can work together to accumulate enough […]
  
• EVE Online’s Havoc expansion is live, making players’ space pirate dreams a reality
  published on November 14th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  As promised, EVE Online players are coasting into the sandbox’s Havoc expansion today, which offers the life of a pirate to fans of the long-running MMO. Here’s the narrative pitch: “The ruthless Angel Cartel and Guristas pirate factions have settled in the recently discovered Zarzakh system, an area of space controlled by The Deathless, a […]
  
• EVE Online posts the full patch notes for tomorrow’s Havoc update
  published on November 13th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Havoc is coming to EVE Online, and not just the kind created by player shenanigans that encourages CCP Games to write headlines and garbage rap songs; it’s tomorrow’s Havoc update, which has its full patch notes available for players to read ahead of the release. Naturally player shenanigans are still going to be encouraged, particularly […]
  
• EVE Online releases an updated launcher this week, confirms Winter Nexus holiday for December 5
  published on November 10th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  The holidays are coming to EVE Online, but instead of bringing Santa-faced carbonated belch syrup, they’re offering up the annual Winter Nexus event on Tuesday, December 5th. Along with the spelling of the word “Yule” to “Yoiul” because adding and switching vowels immediately makes everything futuristic. Just ask Star Wars. The Winter Nexus will once […]
  
• Pearl Abyss Q3 2023: Black Desert’s Land of the Morning Light pulled PA out of its slump
  published on November 9th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  MOP readers might recall that three months ago, the news for Pearl Abyss was looking a bit on the grim side, as the Korean gaming company’s financial report for Q2 showed significant drops in revenues and profit, owing heavily to the seeming decline of Black Desert, in spite of its big summer expansion, Land of […]
  
• Perfect Ten: The single best expansion from 10 MMOs
  published on November 8th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Holy crud, do I not know that I’m setting myself up for some major pushback today. Oh, I feel that to my core, friends! After all, people have Opinions about MMO expansions, especially for franchises that they’ve been playing for years, and for some internet yahoo to come along and blithely single out one pack […]
  
• Global Chat: EVE Vanguard has a lot to prove
  published on October 28th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Just because you’re a huge EVE Online fan doesn’t mean that you’re instantly rallying to the cause of CCP’s EVE Vanguard. The Ancient Gaming Noob expressed some doubts about this upcoming shooter tie-in. “My mild disinterest in FPS titles is compounded by the fact that I have not seen anything that makes me think CCP […]
  
• Perfect Ten: Solid MMOs you might be sleeping on in 2023
  published on October 25th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  For today’s list, I wanted to take a different approach to recommending MMORPGs to you. I know we often talk about underrated titles, but that approach doesn’t always acknowledge that we may dismiss games from consideration even though they are somewhat well-known and -respected. You may be sleeping on some great MMOs right now that […]
  
• EVE Online explains what Havoc’s pirate faction gameplay will look like in latest video
  published on October 19th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  If the lore and design-centered video for Havoc out of EVE Online left you underwhelmed, then you might be more interested in the newest video from CCP Games, which has a more gameplay focused bent to it as it takes a closer look at pirate faction gameplay and its effects on the spaceship sandbox. When […]
  
• EVE Evolved: Is it too late to start playing EVE Online?
  published on October 17th, 2023 at 06:05 PM
  
  
  Sci-fi MMO EVE Online reached a special milestone this year with its 20th anniversary, and for many people, it raises an interesting question: Is it now too late to start playing? People have asked this same question as far back as I can remember, in fact I’m certain I asked it myself when I started […]