American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
standing stone games
LOTRO delays Corsairs of Umbar to November 8, talks 4K upgrades and new legendary servers
It's a sword day, a red day, a Q&A day for Lord of the Rings Online! Executive Producer Rob "Severlin" Ciccolini appeared on this...
Lord of the Rings Online opens the Corsairs of Umbar expansion for player testing
The first round of public testing for next month's Lord of the Rings Online expansion popped up on the Bullroarer test server yesterday as...
Dungeons and Dragons Online readies a community-wide challenge and a Deck of Many Curses
The latest batch of adventures went up on the Dungeons and Dragons Online test server this week. But if you were expecting the same-old,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 441: A Blizzard trick or treat
Justin and Bree discuss MMO Halloween events, Microsoft's Activision-Blizzard acquisition, WoW Classic's LFD, Embers Adrift, and Ship of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, New World, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on the potential for WoW on console and Gamepass.
Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe forester event has been pulled for the third time
Stop us if you've heard this one: Standing Stone Games has pulled the Combe Forester event from Lord of the Rings Online yet again. As...
EverQuest, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, and more fundraise for this year’s Extra Life push
It's the season for the annual push by gamers and game studios to support Extra Life, the charity that raises money for Children's Miracle...
Lord of the Rings Online previews two Corsairs of Umbar zones
With the expansion coming in November, a new Extra Life campaign, and the Harvestmath festival keeping things spicy, Lord of the Rings Online has...
One Shots: A most adorable destroyer of the cosmos
As we enter the delicious aroma of fall and the spine-shivering thrills of Halloween, is there any MMO that deserves to be revisited this...
LOTRO Legendarium: What could a LOTRO challenge server look like?
Lord of the Rings Online's legendary server experiments aren't done yet. Even though it's been a while since we've seen a new shard come...
Third time’s a charm? Lord of the Rings Online’s Combe forester event is finally live
If it seems as if Standing Stone Games has been talking about the Combe Forester event in Lord of the Rings Online for an...
The Stream Team: Meeting with a medusa in Dungeons & Dragons Online
An attack on Stormreach is imminent! Massively OP's MJ has uncovered the plot of the Droaam and its medusa ambassador Hesstess to attack DDO's...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath Festival returns with a new mount and cosmetics
Lord of the Rings Online's autumn events are underway today as the Harvestmath Festival has officially returned to Middle-earth - and it's got fresh...
LOTRO fine-tunes the Mariner while DDO makes stomach polyps a safe place to be
It's mid-week patch madness for both of Standing Stone Games' MMORPGs as one of them marches toward an expansion and another away from one.
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 440: It’s fall MMO content, y’all
Justin and Bree discuss New World's Rise of the Angry Earth, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, and Final Fantasy XIV's Growing Light, with a mailbag question on which studios could do justice to World of Warcraft.
LOTRO is ‘tackling something more difficult and interesting’ with Corsairs of Umbar’s story
With Corsairs of Umbar on the way next month in Lord of the Rings Online, players will be getting to go to this southern...
Global Chat: So who’s ready for EverQuest 3?
Hibernating fans of the EverQuest franchise stirred from slumber this past month to hear that EG7 and Daybreak may actually be progressing with a...
LOTRO Legendarium: Are we ready for LOTRO’s Corsairs of Umbar?
They say that as you get older, time seems to pass by much more quickly. Perhaps that explains why 2023 feels like it's been...
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...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Halloween event returns with new rewards
Boo! Boo who? Oh, don't cry little dungeon crawler. For you see, the Night Revels, Dungeons and Dragons Online's Halloween event, is back in...
Lord of the Rings Online opens preorders for Corsairs of Umbar expansion, launching November 1
As expected - although not as properly communicated from the studio - Lord of the Rings Online's Corsairs of Umbar is officially open for...
