Those men aren't *all* chicks
Filed under: Culture, Opinion, AcademicThe recent announcement of research results into cross-gender play in Massive games has prompted some criticism from MMO industry heavyweights. We mentioned in...
View ArticleEVE Online's war journalists report from the front lines
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Events, in-game, Expansions, News items, RoleplayingThe creators of EVE Online are going all-out with their storyline-driven factional warfare in The Empyrean Age...
View ArticleThe political machinations of EVE Online
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Guilds, MMO industry, PvP, Endgame, News items, Politics, RoleplayingGame journalist and EVE Online player Jim Rossignol has...
View ArticleMassively interviews E-ON editor Zapatero
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively InterviewsEVE Online is a deep and complex game, and even those who've played EVE for years find there are still facets of gameplay...
View ArticleMassively interviews E-ON editor Zapatero Part 2
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Interviews, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively InterviewsI read E-ON so I know you've really got your finger on the pulse of EVE, but given the magazine's quarterly...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: Game "journalism" is not journalism (yet)
Filed under: MMO industry, Opinion, The Soapbox, Miscellaneous Disclaimer: The Soapbox column is entirely the opinion of this week's writer and does not necessarily reflect the views of Massively as a...
View ArticleNCsoft turns the tables by giving awards to MMO journalists
Filed under: Events, real-world, MMO industry, Humor, Miscellaneous First of all, we'd like to say that if we don't get the "Most Eminently Cheery Journalist" award, we may have to convert to the dark...
View ArticleThe Game Archaeologist crosses Meridian 59: A chat with Brian Green (part 2)
Filed under: Fantasy, Meridian 59, Interviews, MMO industry, Free-to-play, The Game Archaeologist Welcome to the second part of our interview with former Meridian 59 developer Brian "Psychochild" Green...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: What it means to be a game journalist
Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, The Soapbox, Miscellaneous The Soapbox column is entirely the opinion of this week's writer and does not necessarily reflect the views of Massively as a...
View ArticleAsk Massively: I would like to play WildStar now please OK edition
Filed under: Lore, Opinion, Massively Meta, Ask Massively, Miscellaneous At Massively, we all have our pet games, games that we follow with interest and that we want to do well. Some of mine are quite...
View ArticleAsk Massively: Missives from the Massively yacht
Filed under: Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively Meta, Ask Massively, Miscellaneous So here we are, lounging on the deck of our yacht, sipping cool drinks out of fake coconuts...
View ArticleAsk Massively: Reviewing and re-reviewing MMOs
Filed under: MMO industry, Reviews, Opinion, Massively Meta, Ask Massively, Miscellaneous Back in September, Star Trek Online Producer Daniel Stahl gave an interview that proposed to tell game...
View ArticleAsk Massively: Why tpyos matter
Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively Meta, Ask Massively, Community Q&A, Miscellaneous Whenever you sit down to read an article -- let's say it's an article about MMOs on your...
View ArticleAsk Massively: The moving goalposts of MMO reviews
Filed under: Events (Real-World), MMO Industry, Opinion, Massively Meta, Ask Massively, Events (Massively's Coverage), Community Q&A, Miscellaneous Last week, Massively streamteamer Richie Procopio...
View ArticleWSJ: Google set to acquire Frommer's from Wiley, add trusted travel reviews
Just one year after its Zagat acquisition, Google has made a move on another trusted lifestyle brand. John Wiley & Sons Inc., the current owner of the Frommer's network of travel sites and guide...
View ArticleBBC News Channel conducts live video interview over smartphone, goes where...
We usually associate smartphones in news reporting with citizen journalism, not full-time journalists. However, a confluence of events has just led to the BBC's Nick Garnett becoming a pioneer for...
View ArticleNewsweek goes all-digital, will cease print publishing at end of 2012
Newsweek Magazine is almost 80 years old, but the print edition isn't going to get much older. The magazine's December 31 issue will be the final one in paper-and-ink format. After that, Newsweek will...
View ArticleChicago Sun-Times fires photography staff, tells journalists to use iPhones
Last Thursday my former hometown's newspaper, The Chicago Sun-Times, sadly laid off its entire 28-person full-time photography staff in an attempt to cut costs in an industry that has been seeing a...
View ArticleTwitter tool tells journalists what's BREAKING!
We've known for sometime that Twitter is looking to make a move in the news game, but what that would look like was still unclear. Today, the blue bird's intentions are starting to look a bit more...
View ArticleUstream starts a nonprofit program to back citizen journalists
Livestreaming is increasingly crucial to journalism -- in some cases, it's the only way to get around government censorship of TV broadcasts. With that in mind, Ustream is launching Ustream for...
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