Yearly Archives: 2016
Global Chat: Oculus Rift, GW2’s philosophy shift, and emulator exploration
The high cost of Oculus Rift brought a lot of discussion to the MMO blogosphere recently, with writers taking sides for and against the...
Star Wars: Battlefront delivers huge nerfs, announces DLC plans
If you've been playing Star Wars: Battlefront since the series was rebooted back in November, you've probably noticed that a few of the weapons and...
The Stream Team: Summoning more adventure in Blade & Soul
Consensus seems to be that Blade & Soul gets better further in when you get more skills, so MassivelyOP's MJ is back in to...
Path of Exile updates players on Ascendancy release dates and staffing changes
In a development that will no doubt shock and confuse many of our readers, January is almost over. If you're a Path of Exile...
Skyforge is making screenshots way easier with its new screen-pausing ‘photomode’
Do you suffer from screenshot envy? Does it bother you that developers will produce screenshots that offer a perfect little slice of the action...
Albion Online patches in more convenience and more undead
The January update for Albion Online really covers every conceivable base. It improves the quality of living for players adventuring through the world, and...
Tomorrow’s The Secret World patch adds new PvP scenario, new group finder
Ready to quite literally fight to be king of the mountain? The Secret World's Shambala scenario tasks players with doing precisely that with a...
The Stream Team: Heading into HEX’s new PvE tutorial (+ giveaway)
After her hands-on experience with the new PvE patch, MassivelyOP's MJ couldn't wait to get in and play HEX: Chronicles of Entrath on her own...
Superdata says League of Legends makes more money than any other game you play
Let's just get this out of the way: Superdata is a research firm that sells its data analysis. It doesn't disclose its methodology or...
SWTOR is putting lockboxes inside of other lockboxes
Star Wars: The Old Republic apparently couldn't stand to see RIFT hogging the business model drama spotlight today and has issued a new proclamation...
Perfect Ten: How to play MMOs on a limited time budget
One of the most frequent questions I'm ever asked here at Massively OP or on my own blog is, "How do you do it?...
Cabal 2’s huge Calamity of War update hit by tiny delay
"Go big or go home, kid."
Cabal 2 must have heard these words as an impressionable youth and taken them to heart, culminating in this week's release...
Tamriel Infinium: Six features Elder Scrolls Online’s level-scaling system needs
I have a terrible confession to make: I was about to write off Elder Scrolls Online. I was going to consider it dead to...
Get ready for The Division’s weekend closed beta test
With little more than a month to go before its alleged March 8th release date, The Division needs to get some serious testing under...
Classic Korean MMORPG Knight Online lands on Steam
As promised, Knight Online has officially landed on Steam this week. The classic Korean MMO originally launched in 2004, the same year that World...
The Underground becomes The World of Akria
A while back we reported on a small indie sandbox called The Underground that placed a premium on allowing players to craft and be...
RIFT forces players to use cash shop for expansion gear upgrades
Back when RIFT launched Nightmare Tide, it introduced earring slots and a new type of gear that required a "Planeswalker: Water" label. Both of...
NCsoft is porting its MOBA Master X Master to the West
NCsoft has just announced that it's porting Master X Master, its MOBA, to western shores "later this year."
https://twitter.com/PlayMXM/status/692347333556715520
The MOBA brings together characters from multiple...
Blade & Soul deploys a patch to reduce spam and fix bugs
Blade & Soul went down for maintenance at 6 a.m. EST today and will probably remain down until 10:00 a.m. EST. That's the bad...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs use Kickstarter as a promotional option?
One of Tuesday's big bits of news was that Hero's Song - John Smedley's big post-Daybreak project - was cancelling its Kickstarter. The announcement...
