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Choose My Adventure: Using the polls to take on untouched mission types in Elite Dangerous
Most of the time when I ask for pollsters to guide me to tasks in Choose My Adventure, it's just for that purpose: guidance,...
Massively Overthinking: Finding flow states in MMORPGs
In this week's Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about flow in MMOs - the psychology concept, not zone or progression design flow. Here's...
Pearl Abyss has apparently put CCP Games – and EVE Online – up for sale
According to reporting on Korean financial news site Money Today, CCP Games - and therefore EVE Online - are back on the market.
Readers will...
The Stream Team: Flying some new (but not really) missions in Elite Dangerous
It's a pretty vast galaxy in Elite: Dangerous, which means that MOP's Chris and his bestie Britarnya haven't seen quite all there is to...
Choose My Adventure: Some quick co-op refreshment in Elite Dangerous
Aaaah yes, it is good to be back in this saddle again.
Now any of you fine readers who also watch my streams on OPTV...
Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier opens up to the public as it moves out of closed alpha
Hey look at that: EVE Frontier, the reddest of all of the EVE spin-offs, is emerging from its protective shield of closed testing to...
One Shots: Every photo is a stage, and every stage is an opportunity to freak out
A whole lot of us get stage fright, but sometimes we push through that because there's a compulsion to be seen, to be heard,...
No Man’s Sky announces Switch 2 edition and releases city settlement-centric Beacon update
If you've been watching Hello Games' Sean Murray tweet bacon emoji like it's 2010 all week, then you probably had a pretty good clue...
Lost Ark has opened act 3 of the Kazeros raid – with its hardcore frontier system ruleset
Back during the May update for Lost Ark, Amazon noted that part of the patch wouldn't actually be unlocked until today. Well, by definition,...
Elite Dangerous offers initial details of the guild system rework arriving in Vanguards update this summer
As it stands right now, Elite: Dangerous does have something like a guild system known as squadrons, but it's pretty bare bones in general....
The Stream Team: Doing a casual bit of criming in Elite Dangerous
What's a little bit of theft between friends? MOP's Chris and best friend Brit are back together in Elite: Dangerous this week, and this...
Cozy multiplayer farming sim Lightyear Frontier promises a change to narrative, not a complete removal of it
It's been a little while since the cozy mech-based multiplayer farming sim Lightyear Frontier popped on our radar. As a reminder, this early access...
Lost Ark outlines its new ‘experimental’ season progression system codenamed Paradise
Last week, Lost Ark invited players to tune in to its YouTube channel for an informational video about what's coming later down the pike...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2025: Black Desert Mobile’s Chinese endeavor is over
Last weekend, we ran the numbers on Black Desert and EVE Online, thanks to some gap-filling on Q4 2024 made possible by Pearl Abyss's...
The Stream Team: First steps into Elite Dangerous’ Powerplay system
Out of all of the portions of Elite: Dangerous that MOP's Chris hasn't touched, Powerplay is definitely one of the longstanding ones - even...
We finally have some clean numbers on how well EVE Online and Black Desert performed last year
Back in February, we were frustrated to see that Korean games company Pearl Abyss was breaking with tradition: Instead of showing revenues for Black...
LOTRO Legendarium: Which LOTRO premium housing neighborhood is best for you?
So here's a weird thing to consider: It wasn't until October 2016 that Lord of the Rings Online introduced premium housing to the game...
Elite Dangerous unveils its next upcoming new ship, Frontier Elite II’s Panther Clipper MkII
Yesterday we pointed out how Elite: Dangerous had teased its upcoming new internet spaceship and planned to give more information during the monthly Frontier...
Elite Dangerous rebalances colonization economies and teases its next new ship
For some time now, the colony-establishing players of Elite: Dangerous have tried to understand how to get the kind of in-game economy they want...
Albion Online unleashes a small balance patch for its Rogue Frontier update
The downside of how patches are named in Albion Online is that with an update name like Rogue Frontier, you would expect that even...