Yearly Archives: 2016
Leaderboard: What’s the very best zone added in WoW Legion?
Last week, Massively OP's World of Warcraft columnist, Eliot Lefebvre, came damn close to coaxing me back to WoW with his piece rating Legion's...
Final Fantasy XIV drops a trailer for patch 3.4
Ready to see what awaits Eorzea with the end of the Dragonsong War? Final Fantasy XIV's next major patch drops on September 27th, and...
Dark Age of Camelot makes plans for its 15th birthday celebration
Where were you on October 10th, 2001? Were you one of the first players through the gate in Dark Age of Camelot? Whether or...
One Shots: Overcompensating
Holy moley, the Massively OP community came out in force to respond to last week's "giant weapon" screenshot challenge. Most comments that I've seen...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best dragons?
Dragons are almost criminally overused in fantasy. It's sort of understandable, since a big old dragon is sort of the iconic fantasy monster, but...
Make My MMO: Indiegogo campaigns for Mark Kern and John Smedley (September 17, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news was one of the biggest we've had all year for crowdfunded games. Former Firefall boss Mark Kern made...
World of Warcraft introduces you to Emerald Nightmare’s seven bosses
Don't let the name fool you: World of Warcraft's Emerald Nightmare is anything but lush and verdant. Even so, we expect that it will...
The Stream Team: Celebrating World of Warships’ first anniversary
What's the best way to celebrate one year of World of Warships? Why, by blowing everything up, of course. OK, perhaps just the opposing...
The Game Archaeologist: The Island of Kesmai
It was the mid-'80s, and I was just a kid in love with his family's IBM PC. Not having a wealth of capital at...
The Stream Team: Finding more for the ARK flock
Have you seen The Birds? With how many flying creatures MassivelyOP's MJ and the crew are trying to collect in ARK, they might be...
Crowfall team answers dozens of community questions, confirms beta 1 players will test this year
Crowfall fans are in for a long, tall drink of information this weekend, poured straight from the minds of creators J. Todd Coleman and Gordon...
WRUP: The loss edition
We all lose things over the course of our lives. Some things are small, almost incidental - pieces of paper, movies, favored dishes, keys,...
WoW loses three more developers: Craig Amai, Tyson Murphy, and James Waugh
Looks like Blizzard has lost more than just Chris Metzen this week; MMO Champion reports that World of Warcraft Lead Quest Designer Craig Amai has...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boss fights are actually fun?
Boss fights in MMORPGs are often slapped with predictable labels: tedious, challenging, interesting, technical, difficult, or face-roll. Yet one that I'm always looking for...
Betawatch: H1Z1 rolls back launch plans (September 16, 2016)
Half of H1Z1 was supposed to be launching on September 20th, but much like the game's console plans that has been rolled backwards. The...
PSA: Get your Champions Online anniversary freebies
If you have totally forgotten that Champions Online is currently in the ecstatic throes of its seventh anniversary, it's to be forgiven. Lots of...
Here are the virtual goodies BlizzCon attendees will take home in November
If you're headed to BlizzCon this year -- virtually or in the flesh -- you're surely anticipating the swag, much of which comes in...
Warframe releases six new Syndicate melee weapons
Who doesn't love having shiny new weapons when traipsing into battle? Tenno can enjoy that feeling now; Warframe has just release six new Syndicate...
Blizzard will let you change your name on Battle.net (for $10)
So let's walk back through this procedure. You had to choose a name for yourself on Battle.net because you wanted to play World of...
Project Gorgon revamps armor bonuses and food perks
"I'm hip-deep in changes to all kinds of systems," says Project Gorgon's Eric Heimburg in a blog post this week, "and still trying different...
