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Black Desert’s PC roadmap dates Guardian Awakening, more Succession skills, and new continents
While players of Black Desert already had an idea of what was to come thanks to a content preview, there weren't many release dates...
Battle Bards Episode 160: MMO cover songs vol. 2
For the first time since Episode 50, the Battle Bards crew returns to the theme of cover songs of MMO tracks. Several extremely musicians...
The Stream Team: Warm melodies at LOTRO’s Winterstock
What better way to spend a Friday night at a concert with friends? LOTRO's annual Winterstock is this weekend, and Massively OP's MJ is...
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra enters open beta on January 24
It would appear that there's enough of a fanbase for the in-development League of Legends CCG Legends of Runeterra that Riot is accelerating some...
The Game Archaeologist: That time when MTV made a virtual world
For the music trendy in the '80s and '90s, MTV was a huge source of fascination and audio discovery. It was the edgy channel...
Do you want to build a snowman? You can starting today in Black Desert
Do you want to build a snowman? Head on over to Winter Wonderland in Black Desert. PC players this week are being treated to...
World of Warcraft previews the upcoming bosses and rewards of Ny’alotha, the Waking City
Pop that Cypress Hill CD in the boombox because it's time for adventurers to just go out of their minds in World of Warcraft. Or... wait,...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Otherland’s soundtrack
Despite being an adaption of Tad Williams' enormously popular sci-fi novels, the MMO Otherland was a flop in both of its incarnations. Mismanaged, underdeveloped,...
Hope rising: Astellia Online is hiring more community managers
We have been understandably nervous about Astellia Online following December's news that the game's South Korean version was shutting down. That sort of event...
Al Jazeera’s Start Here program recounts the growth, demands, and problems of the gaming industry
Video gaming, as we all know by now, is a huge industry. It has grown by leaps and bounds since its very first iterations...
Battle Bards Episode 159: Black Desert revisited
It’s a return to a soundtrack that, over the past couple of years, experienced a lavish remastry. This week, the Battle Bards explore the...
The best Massively OP community polls of 2019
Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...
Infographic condenses gaming’s annual earnings and most talked about titles in 2019
Sure, we can all take a look back at the how gaming did fiscally this past year by blipping through search engines and archives,...
The definitive 2019 Battle Bards episode guide
The most amazing thing about Battle Bards... is that it even exists at all. The world's first, best, and only MMO music podcast picked...
Jukebox Heroes: A Charlie Brown MMO Christmas
I don't know if you realized this, but every year Bree asks me to whip up a column of MMO holiday tunes for Christmas....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 252: Holiday MMO mailbag show
Justin and Bree empty the mailbag out on the floor and answer all your burning MMO questions ahead of the holidays!
LOTRO Legendarium: How did Lord of the Rings Online do in 2019?
When we gave Lord of the Rings Online the award this year for the Most Underrated MMORPG on the market, it came with plenty...
Massively OP’s 2019 MMO Video Game Music Awards
Many of us here on the Massively OP staff have our own personal pet projects and interests that might not be as widespread as...
Skyforge’s Rock and Metal update goes live for PC players
Personally, I was hoping for some music-minded content in Skyforge's latest update, especially since one of its god classes uses a literal guitar, but...
No Man’s Sky introduces music creation with the ByteBeat device
Just because you're in a big lonely void of space doesn't mean you can't fill the emptiness with incredibly fresh beats. The latest patch...
