It’s already Halloween in Monster Hunter World - If it's still 90 degrees where you are, too bad: Tomorrow's the autumn solstice, which means it's time to start rolling out fall events in online games. Monster Hunter World…
Wanna feel old? Ultima Online launched 21 years ago today - Ultima Online is officially old enough to drink. It's older than I was when I first started playing it all those years ago! Yep, the game that coined the term…
World of Warships prepares submarines for a Halloween event and the game in general - It makes sense to include submarines as part of a Halloween event for World of Warships. After all, there's nothing else that so perfectly encapsulates terror on the high seas;…
Bless Online previews its upcoming Patala raid and Halloween events - The folks at Neowiz have posted a preview of what players can expect from next week's Bless Online content update, giving them an advance look at the upcoming Patala raid…
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s new playgrounds - Ranked Season 4 started up in Heroes of the Storm this past week, and that's just the start of the fun with Blizzard's MOBA. The Garden of Terror update added…
Overwatch’s Halloween Terror begins October 9, but don’t expect ‘dramatic new game modes’ - Overwatch has joined the short list of online games prepping their Halloween events nearly a month in advance: Blizzard announced this morning that Halloween Terror begins on October 9th, which…
Crowfall previews playable Centaurs and Elken for ‘Monster Month’ - Now this is what I call getting into the spirit of Octo-Halloween-ber, the best month of the year: ArtCraft is rolling out previews of all of Crowfall's monster races, playable…
Wizard101 and Pirate101 celebrate Halloween with festive crown shop items - The month's Halloween events continue to roll out, this time in KingsIsle's family-friendly MMOs Pirate101 and Wizard101. Both games are getting into the Samhain spirit with special seasonal packs on…
Trove interview teases upcoming Geode surface world, gem tutorial, dungeon design, and Bomber Royale’s reception - At the tail end of September, Trove website Trovesaurus posted up a belated but quite welcome Gamescom interview with Trion Worlds that gives a huge overview of what's on the…
DC Universe Online’s The Witching Hour Halloween event returns - The Witching Hour strikes in DC Universe Online, bringing Halloween festivities to the many heroes and villains of Gotham, Metropolis, and beyond. The event, which began earlier this week on…
Bless Online launches free-to-play on October 23, new raid and Halloween event today - If you're still watching to see how Bless Online shapes up come its official launch, you'll want to pay attention to today's announcement: Neowiz just revealed on Steam that it's…
TERA gets into the Halloween spirit with the Harvest Festival Hall event and new exclusive costumes - It's the Halloween season again, and TERA's Harvest Festival Hall event has returned for another year. For the rest of the month, players can get into the spooky holiday spirit…
Funcom roundup: Conan Exiles’ thrall hunger system, Mutant Year Zero’s new video, and Secret World Legends’ Masquerade - Funcom is up to some stuff today. Over in Conan Exiles, the Pets Update is live, or rather half of it is live, and it's not the half with pets, and…
Halloween 2018 is live in City of Heroes map emu Paragon Chat ahead of October 20 party - Who says ya can't have holidays in a dead MMO? You can get your Halloween on in City of Heroes right now - or more specifically, in Paragon Chat. As…
Project Gorgon Halloween raffles serve as prelude to seasonal event - Project Gorgon is literally an MMORPG where you can be a cow, all the time, if you want to, so a Halloween event might be a tad redundant. But we're…
The Daily Grind: What MMO plans do you have for the fall? - With the snap of fall and change of the leaves, the season has taken a change as we go into the last four months of the year. There's still a…
EverQuest II starts the holiday season with the Nights of the Dead - It's so good to see a game properly celebrating Halloween, objectively the best holiday and one best celebrated for an entire month. Sure, EverQuest II is running a tiny bit…
One Shots: Mercury sunrise - "Like many, when Destiny 2 launched late last year, I played it for a few weeks, then put it away," said Rees Racer. "I was persuaded by friends and good…
The Stream Team: Halloween has cannon in TERA - [AL:TERA]Woohoo! it's time to start the Halloween goodness across the MMOverse, and Massively OP's MJ is beginning with a bang! TERA's Harvest Festival Hall events includes cannon to keep spooky…
Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event returns next week - [AL:GW2]His jokes always slay the audience: Yes, Mad King Thorn returns to Guild Wars 2 this year as the Shadow of the Mad King is launching next week on October…
Overwatch’s Halloween Terror 2018 event is now live on all platforms - It's already Halloween in Overwatch: Blizzard barfed pumpkins, skins, and creepy crawlies all over its team shooter this afternoon. "Welcome back to Overwatch Halloween Terror 2018! Overwatch Halloween Terror is…
It’s suddenly spring in Black Desert as Cookie Day arrives - Happy Halloween, have a cookie in Black Desert. No, really, Kakao has kicked off its Cookie Day event, which is an odd choice for the middle of October, but I'm…
Blade & Soul’s ‘Blade & Ghoul’ Halloween event takes players into Zaiwei Ruins October 17 - [AL:BaS]Yeah, I feel like this Halloween event name doesn't quite work with the rhyme, but it does look cute on paper. "The veil to the Dark Realm is wavering over…
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away a free mount – if you can hang with its upcoming holiday events - Massively OP's MJ took a tour of the gorgeous Elder Scrolls Online Summerset reward house last night, and it's a reminder that ZeniMax is not doing promos in half measures…
Final Fantasy XIV prepares for this year’s ghostly All Saints’ Wake - It's time to get thoroughly spooked out in Final Fantasy XIV as All Saints' Wake returns once again. This year is even more spooky than normal, to boot; players will…
Champions Online’s Halloween event, Bloodmoon Rises, has returned - [AL:Champ]Halloween is hatching in PWE's superhero MMORPG Champions Online, which traditionally includes a zombie apocalypse, battle against the werewolves, and fight for life against the undead as Takofanes plagues the game.…
The Stream Team: A Bless-ed Halloween - Interested in having a Bless-ed Halloween? The game is offing a number of events, and Massively OP's MJ can't turn down a chance to celebrate her favorite holiday. The big…
Guild Wars 2 details this year’s Halloween festivities in Red Bull interview - Halloween is coming to the lands of Tyria, and the folks over at Red Bull have sat down with ArenaNet Team Lead Joe Kimmes and Designer Alex Youngblood to take…
Grab a witchy house for completing Elder Scrolls Online’s Halloween events beginning October 18 - [AL:ESO]Just this morning we covered Elder Scrolls Online's new Indrik mount event reward, which requires players to play a bit in all four of the game's upcoming seasonal events and…
The Stream Team: Secret World Legends’ Samhain is here! - [AL:SWL]If ever there was a phrase to make Massively OP's heart flutter and her smile broaden, it's that Secret World Legend's Samhain is here -- and it's added more of…
Chaos Theory: Secret World Legend’s 2018 Samhain is music to my ears - It's the most wonderful time of the year With radios playing and ghost that are slaying the ones who come near It's the most wonderful time of the year [AL:SWL]Ya'll…
Destiny 2 announces Festival of the Lost Halloween event - This Tuesday, October 16th, Destiny 2 will be getting in on the seasonal celebrations as it rolls out its Halloween event, Festival of the Lost. This year's Festival is a…
PlanetSide 2 hosts Nanite of the Living Dead event for Halloween - You can travel to another world, but even in PlanetSide 2 the dead of Halloween will chase you. Yes, it's time to celebrate the best holiday in the shooter, and…
EVE Online’s Crimson Harvest returns for Halloween on October 23 - [AL:EVE]I've always loved the name of EVE Online's Halloween event. Sure, it makes no sense for an internet spaceships MMORPG to have Halloween at all, but Crimson Harvest is just…
One Shots: Filtered to perfection - I don't usually spend a lot of time running pictures through filters, but it's pretty cool when I see someone doing this that knows what they're doing. Spider has it…
Closers offers up a spooky stage for Halloween fun - You might not think that Seoul is the most happening place for Halloween celebrations, but Closers knows that Halloween is something you carry in your heart. And in your clothing…
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst Halloween event in the MMOverse? - No real salt from me today: I personally loved Star Wars Galaxies'Â Halloweeny Galactic Moon Festival, as ridiculous as it was, and as I mentioned on the podcast, I'm super grateful…
Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath Fest delayed ‘by a day or so’ - Some mildly unfortunate news for Lord of the Rings Online players, as Standing Stone Games has announced that the game's Autumn celebration, Harvestmath Fest, is going to be delayed "by…
Black Desert’s Halloween event bosses bring tricks and treats this week - [AL:BDO]Halloween shenanigans will cloak the world of Black Desert starting tomorrow, Kakao announced this morning. "Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games have announced that the skies of Black Desert Online will…
Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King is live for Halloween fun - Stop him if you've heard this one: "Two quaggans were walking in a cow pasture. The first turns to the second and says, 'Foo.' The other replies, 'Cows say moo.'…
The Stream Team: A night in EverQuest II’s Nights of the Dead - [AL:EQ2]Although there is no new quest or event for EverQuest II's 2018 Nights of the Dead, that doesn't mean Massively OP's MJ is going to skip it! No, it is…
Halloween blows through RIFT, Trove, ArcheAge, Atlas Reactor, and Defiance 2050 - Something sinister is brewing over at Trion Worlds, and soon the whole world will pay the price as Scott Hartsman's corgi transforms into its true nightmare self, full of howls,…
Blade & Soul’s Blade & Ghoul Halloween event is here with reward and upgrade rebalancing - Halloween is officially live in NCsoft's Blade & Soul this morning as the Blade & Ghoul (yes really) event has kicked off. As we've previously noted, starting today and running…
Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath Festival is live - [AL:LOTRO]Lord of the Rings Online's Harvestmath Festival was briefly delayed, but now it's live in Middle-earth, a Halloweeny capstone for last week's Update 23 and just one more reason to…
Final Fantasy XI prepares for the spooktacular Harvest Festival - So, how do you manage to make things feel spooky in a game like Final Fantasy XI when you have an entire expansion about getting sucked through time into a…
EverQuest awakens to the Nights of the Dead - EverQuest II isn't the only Norrath MMO that's enjoying a string of spooky Nights of the Dead. While a little late to the party, original flavor EverQuest has kicked off…
World of Warships patch 0.7.1 adds in Halloween submarines along with other tweaks - The spookiest possible thing in World of Warships is the submarine. We already learned quite a bit about these new nautical terrors in a preview of the game's Halloween event,…
Villagers and Heroes’ Haunted Moors takes you back to Spooky Town - Won't you take me (back to) to Spooky Town? Halloween is upon Villagers & Heroes, and that means the Haunted Moors event zone first introduced in 2017 is back in…
Kritika Online Awakens the Valkyrie alongside its Halloween update - Halloween has arrived in Kritika Online, but that's only part of what the game's newest update has to offer. Sure, everyone who likes having new challenges to undertake in the…
The Stream Team: More Secret World Legends Samhain - [AL:SWL]Can Massively OP's MJ ever get enough Secret World Legends' Samhain? That would be a no. Or should we say, NooOOOOooOOooOoOOoOoo! There are more Jack of the Lanterns to smash…
H1Z1 brings tricks and treats with Hauntfest event - As H1Z1 players await the beginning of season 2 in November, the folks at Daybreak Games are bringing a haunting holiday celebration for all players to enjoy. During Hauntfest, which…
Conan Exiles adding Halloween event, offers free week on Xbox One - Do barbarians celebrate Halloween? They can if they are in Conan Exiles. Funcom announced its first spooky holiday event for the survival game, the Night of Lost Souls. But players…
The Stream Team: Haunted Burrow and other LOTRO Halloween fun - [AL:LOTRO]Tricks and troves and haunted burrows -- that's what LOTRO's Harvest Festival is made of! And this year adds in even more items, more quests, and even a new maze!…
Warframe announces Day of the Dead event festivities - The Day of the Dead has come to Digital Extremes's space-ninja shooter Warframe, and it brings with it a slew of suitably spooky skins and cosmetics as well as a…
MapleStory 2 invites players to visit a totally-not-haunted hotel for Halloween, celebrates 1M registered players - Although the folks at Nexon are probably still recuperating after the launch of MapleStory 2 -- which has already garnered over a million account downloads within its first week, according…
World of Warcraft’s Hallow’s End celebration returns - We're already over halfway through October, and things in the MMO space just keep getting spookier and spookier. The latest game to get in on the Halloween fun is World…
WildStar is now celebrating its last-ever Shade’s End Halloween event - Although its imminent sunset looms, WildStar is still getting into the Halloween spirit by bringing Shade's Eve back one last time. From October 19th until November 2nd, players can gather…
Lord of the Rings Online had to disable more content for fixes – this time it’s Harvestmath Festival quests - It just has not been Standing Stone's week, at least where Lord of the Rings Online is concerned. First it had to fully disable the update 23 Grey Mountains instance cluster…
Chaos Theory: A guide to Secret World Legend’s Samhain 2018 community events - If you thought that all Samhain had to offer was official Secret World Legends missions and events, you'd be mistaken. A-machete-through-the-skull sorely mistaken. In fact, there are quite a few…
PlanetSide 2 Producer Nick Silva addresses Halloween event connection issues - Last week, Daybreak Games updated PlanetSide 2 with its Halloween event, Nanite of the Living Dead V: Seeds of Terror, but unfortunately, not everything went according to plan. Soon after…
The Stream Team: Beckoned back to Villagers and Heroes’ Spooky Town - The Haunter Moors have opened up again in Villagers & Heroes, and MassivelyOP's MJ is riding straight into Spooky Town to partake in the festivities! There are nightmares to quell…
The Stream Team: Seeking the Spectral Dragon in Dungeons and Dragons Online - [AL:DDO]Were you looking forward to doing DDO's Halloween dungeons this year? Well too bad! They are... well, challenge quests instead. But still there. You just get more rewards for accomplishing…
The Stream Team: Hanging out at RIFT’s Harvest Festival - [AL:Rift]RIFT's Autumn Harvest festival is back up and running, and that means Massively OP's MJ is heading in to partake! She's going to eke out as much celebrating of the…
One Shots: Waifu dreams - Make no bones about it, MapleStory 2 is as anime as they come. Need proof beyond the huge eyes, overdone expressions, and ultra-saturated cuteness? How about the fact that you…
Ultima Online kicks off Halloween but postpones vet rewards to next spring - Halloween comes to most MMOs, even to the 21-year-old ones. One. Yes, it's pumpkin spice season in Ultima Online. "With Publish 101 Britannia is in full Halloween spirit! The pumpkin…
Fortnite delays Save the World F2P, promises sweeping PvE revamp, and teases Halloween - [AL:Fort]We're actually surprised that Fortnite's PvE mode, Save the World, does so well. Relegated to the virtual backburner ever since the game's hastily constructed but wildly popular battle royale mode…
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is introducing Halloween skin sets for a large amount of money - Halloween is almost here, and in order to celebrate, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is letting you dress up in all sorts of horror movie costumes. Assuming you pay for them, anyhow. Yes,…
The Stream Team: Scaring up an Elder Scrolls Online Halloween - [AL:ESO]Although Massively OP's MJ still has the prologue to go through, Elder Scrolls Online has started up its Halloween event, which you just knew was going to distract her and…
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you were wrong about your snap judgment of an MMO? - This weekend I finally got to dig into MapleStory 2 beyond the character creator, and I have to say my initial reaction was oh no. It felt super awkward, and…
Neverwinter teases Heart of Fire module with new video as the Masquerade of Liars returns - On November 6th, Neverwinter players will be invited to join the totally legit and not-at-all questionable company of Acquisitions Inc. on a delightfully absurd romp through Faerun in the new…
The Stream Team: A very voxel Shadow’s Eve in Trove - [AL:Trove]Massively OP's MJ is about to embark on a very voxel-y Halloween event in Trove. Shadow's Eve has started today, and she's ready to celebrate in the truest blockhead style.…
Massively OP Podcast Episode 192: Tricks and treats - MJ, Justin, and Bree discuss Trion's acquisition, Aion's Awakened Legacy, MMO Halloween, Black Desert's Russian un-fiasco, SWTOR, MapleStory 2, and ZeniMax's new maybe-MMO.
Blade & Soul tweaks its Blade & Ghoul Halloween event based on feedback - So, let's take stock. The bad news about the upcoming changes to Blade & Soul's Blade & Ghoul event is that "soul" and "ghoul" are still not homophones unless you…
The Stream Team: Happy 5th birthday Path of Exile - [AL:POE]In a month of Halloween celebrations, Path of Exile tosses in a birthday for Massively OP's MJ to celebrate. So, that's what she's going to do! Delving, story advancement, or…
No Man’s Sky announces new update, The Abyss, releasing next week - It's only been a couple of months since the release of No Man's Sky's last named update, NEXT, but it looks like the folks at Hello Games have been hard…
MassivelyOP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2018 - Whether or not you consider yourself too old to put on that Hulk or Sparkle Twilight costume and prance ("HULK PRANCE") around the neighborhood for free candy, MMOs make it…
It looks like Trove’s community manager survived Trion’s Gamigo buyout as Halloween goes live - Halloween is upon voxelbox Trove as Shadow's Eve has gone live. This year's event offers multiple activities, as players collect shadowy seals, complete Pumpkin Lairs, and crafts lockboxes. And don't…
Project Gorgon delivers both Halloween and a patch in one fell swoop - Something twisted and sinister is slithering through the lands of Project Gorgon -- and it is up to you to find it, fight it, or join it. Hey, we're not…
Fortnite Halloween event announced, new skins and cosmetics leaked - Halloween is bringing some big changes to Epic Games's popular battle royale title Fortnite, courtesy of the recently announced Fortnitemares seasonal event. The battle royale island is under attack from…
The Stream Team: Mogloween mayhem in AQ3D’s Mystcroft - Halloween is a special time, but perhaps Mogloween is even better! AQ3D's annual holiday is bigger and better than ever with the city of Mystcroft to Trick-or-Treat in and the…
Vindictus celebrates its eighth anniversary, announces Halloween events - Bring out the cake and party hats, 'cause Nexon's free-to-play hack-and-slash MMO Vindictus is turning eight years old. To celebrate the occasion, the devs have released a thank-you video (which…
The Stream Team: The Witching Hour revelry in DC Universe Online - [AL:DCUO]Why settle for just Trick-or-Treating one day in the real world when you can do it many days in a virtual one? DCUO's Halloween event is on, which means Massively…
Sea of Thieves teases Halloween event and November’s Shrouded Spoils expansion - In this week's Sea of Thieves developer update, Executive Producer Joe Neate takes a look at the upcoming Bilge Rat Adventure and gives players a preview of what they can…
Even PUBG MOBILE is getting in on Halloween in time for its real-life event this weekend - PUBG MOBILEÂ has a big update out this week just ahead of Halloween, including some fresh Halloween-themed content and a real-world event on the docket. "Players afraid of the dark are…
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2 Halloween with the MOP ladies plus one - [AL:GW2]Mad Kings and sinister clock towers, that's what Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King event is made of! But that won't stop Massively OP's MJ from celebrating her…
The Stream Team: Warframe’s space ninja Halloween - [AL:WarF]What's more Halloween-y than being a space ninja? It's perfect! Massively OP's MJ is heading in to have some holiday fun in Warframe's Halloween event. Day of the Dead and…
LOTRO Legendarium: Wistmead surprises and progression servers - What a week this has been! Originally I was all gung-ho to talk about nothing else than all of the new Halloween content that Lord of the Rings Online has…
The Stream Team: ARK, where even poop dresses up for Halloween - Without much of an event to participate in (RIP DodoRex), what's a Halloween lover to do in ARK? Well, Massively OP's MJ has plans to visit a server where even…
The Stream Team: Just how cute is Halloween in MapleStory 2? - [AL:MS2]Halloween is not all spooks and scares. Oh no, it has its share of cutesy and cuddly too. The latter is what Massively OP's MJ is pretty sure she'll find…
One Shots: Pumpkins Online - I know and you know that MMO developers love Halloween perhaps more than their own flesh-and-blood children. And as much as I enjoy how this passion emerges as rampant festivities,…
Darkfall Rise of Agon’s latest patch makes some combat tweaks, fixes bugs - The latest patch for Big Picture Games's PvP-centric sandbox Darkfall: Rise of Agon was a relatively small one, but it brought with it some "community requested items" as well as…
The Stream Team: Creeping into the new Lord of the Rings Online Halloween area - Things got a lot spookier when Massively OP's MJ moved to LOTRO's new quest area for Halloween! Now she's even more excited to do those new quests -- so much…
Black Desert: DDOS attacks, South Korean lawsuit, and Halloween - If you've been having problems with your Black Desert server crashing this week, you're not alone. Kakao seems to be suffering a wave of DDOS attacks on the North American…
Global Chat: Is MapleStory 2 too cute for its own britches? (Yes.) - Maybe it's the weird gaming lull that's going on right now, but MapleStory 2 has picked up a good amount of press and player eyeballs (ew) as the newest MMORPG…
The Stream Team: Tripping the Rifts with the Dauntless Riftstalker - A new monster has made its way to Dauntless. Part bat, part cat, part teleportation device, and part Halloween on four legs -- it's the Riftstalker. It also happens to…
Take home a MU Online, MU Legend, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift in Webzen’s Halloween 2018 giveaway - Webzen is celebrating the best holiday ever - Halloween, of course - with a round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU Legend, MU Online,…
Gloria Victis update expands crafting system, adds Halloween event content - The folks at Black Eye Games recently released the latest update for their medieval sandbox Gloria Victis, and according to the patch notes, it's "one of the largest Gloria Victis…
Star Trek Online’s Age of Discovery is coming to consoles on November 13th - Earlier this month, Perfect World Entertainment released the first chapter of Star Trek Online's Age of Discovery update for the game's PC version, and a new press release reveals that…
Guild Wars 2’s legendary upgrade feature accidentally joins weekly patch as new RMT griefing trick emerges - [AL:GW2]If, like our staff, you looked at yesterday's Guild Wars 2 patch notes and thought it was a "filler patch" with just a handful of bug and balance tweaks and…
Ship of Heroes demos deadly Halloween trick-or-treating and spooky new models - Just because a game's still being built doesn't mean it can't work on seasonal events, Ship of Heroes proves once again today. Heroic Games has put up a new video…
Black Desert revamps pet exchange system, kicks off ‘Celebrating Millions’ events - Black Desert's Halloween day update has more than just sweets: It's got a revamp for the pet exchange system, intended to make the acquisition of higher-tier pets much easier. You'll…
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s one-day Halloween event - [AL:STO]What's spooky in Star Trek Online? When research goes awry! The mini-mission Hearts and Minds is back for Halloween. Maybe they could have called it Hearts and Brains! Massively OP's…
Sea of Thieves adds makeup and improves tentacle collision with Festival of the Damned - Sea of Thieves is saying farewell to Forsaken Shores and hello to the Festival of the Damned today, just barely in time for the Halloween tonight. In addition to gobs of…
The Stream Team: Conan Exiles’ night of the dead - Massively OP's MJ is excited to see what Conan Exiles has in store for its Halloween night event! The land opens to the dead as perpetual darkness falls. Can she…
The Stream Team: Haunting World of Tanks’ Halloween - There are monster trucks, so why not monster tanks? That's what World of Tanks brings out for its Halloween festivities. Massively OP's MJ is crawling into the MT-Revenant and rolling…
The Stream Team: A final frolic in WildStar’s Shade’s Eve - Massively OP's MJ is saddened that this will be the last ever Shade's Eve in WildStar. Besides a celebration of her favorite holiday, it's her favorite in-game color scheme! Before…
The Stream Team: Extending Halloween with Wild Terra - You say Halloween has come and gone? Massively OP's MJ says pshaw! That was just First Halloweens; we still get Second Halloweens. Wild Terra still has the holiday going on…
The Stream Team: Bootiful decorations in Black Desert Online - [AL:BDO]Halloween activities are fun, but part of the magic of the holiday is the decorations! And Black Desert Online does decorations well. Massively OP's MJ is spending an evening immersed…
The Stream Team: Halloween and submarines in World of Warships - [AL:WoWS]Halloween isn't only celebrated on land, it's celebrated on the sea. At least it is in World of Warships. Massively OP's MJ is excited to jump into the spooky special…
One Shots: A star is born - It's time for another amazing Fashion Week here at One Shots! It's like Shark Week, only with sleeker looks and less chum. Last time, I put out a call for…
The MOP Up: TERA opens SEA server and delivers Deathwrack to consoles - It was a pretty big week for action combat MMO TERA, starting with the delivery of the four-dungeon Deathwrack update to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Customizable skill chains, guild…
XL Games and Gamigo say ArcheAge’s ‘core production team’ is rolling out Relics of Hiram November 13 - The fate of ArcheAge in the west has been up in the air for two weeks now following the collapse of Trion Worlds and the sale of all of its…
Shroud of the Avatar details continuing work on fishing, teases roleplay content stream - Halloween is over, and you know what that means: Yep, two whole months of Christmas. Shroud of the Avatar is already teasing its winter buyables, including a sweet snow sleigh.…
The Stream Team: Neverwinter’s Masquerade of Liars - [AL:NW]In the realm of Halloween events, Neverwinter boasts one of the most uniquely -- and aptly -- named! The Masquerade of Liars is still going, so there is still time…
Funcom is now working on at least six new games, including a new open-world multiplayer title - Man, just a couple of years ago, there was serious concern that Funcom wouldn't make it another quarter, and now here we are in Q3 2018, when Funcom has performed…
Chronicles of Elyria marches forward to alpha testing - Ever take stock of things and realize that it's been a long time since you last checked in on a developing MMO? If that's you and Chronicles of Elyria, you'll…
The Stream Team: Back to Halloween battles in World of Warships - [AL:WoWS]If Massively OP's MJ had to vote today for a second chance at a Halloween event, she'd choose World of Warships. And her vote counted! She's got access to a…
The Daily Grind: What MMO festival reward do you use year-round? - MMORPG holidays are funny events because while we kill ourselves to get thematic costumes, toys, mounts, and other goodies, the second the event is over... so is the holiday. And…
The MOP Up: Pagan Online slams ARPGs and MOBAs together - Tack this on your list of action-RPGs to watch. Mad Head Games announced that it is developing a blend of ARPG and MOBA with its upcoming Pagan Online. The title…
FFXIV Fan Festival 2018: Q&A with Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida - The question and answer portion of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival actually came before the Letter from the Producer, and as a result it was pinned in a spot wherein…
The MOP Up: Free Overwatch this Thanksgiving - Don't have Thanksgiving plans past gorging on dead bird carcasses and mashed-up roots? Blizzard has just the thing for you: Free Overwatch! "From November 20th through the 26th, we're calling…
SuperData: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty dominate October as Blizzard titles slip - Surprising absolutely no one, Red Dead Redemption 2 killed it (and the horse it rode in on) in October. According to SuperData's digital games revenue report for the month, the…
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2018 - Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate a fictional form of it than…
World of Warships battles Brits and hails Halloween - World of Warships is steaming ahead with a whole lot of content in Patch 0.7.11. Don't let the extra decimal places fool you: This patch is packed with plenty of…
Funcom will debut its next Conan game this Saturday - A month ago during its last investor call, Funcom clarified that it was working on at least six new games in addition to its current stable of MMOs and survival…
Snag a MU Online, MU Legend, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift in Webzen’s Winter 2018 giveaway - Webzen is celebrating the multi-week winter holidays this year with a round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU Legend, MU Online, Rappelz, Flyff, and…
Mad World shows off its improved skill system, but no Steam in sight - While the cross-platform hack-and-slash MMO Mad World was supposed to arrive on Steam this fall, it looks as though the project is going to head into 2018 with no early…
Massively OP’s 2018 MMO Video Game Music Awards - We have been talking a lot about what we've been playing this year and what we're looking forward to in 2019 and beyond, but what about the music that has…
Battle Bards Episode 134: Halloween and Christmas - It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas! And, er, Halloween! Well, the Battle Bards were never much for subtlety, so you must excuse their efforts to sandwich two holidays…
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0 - While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them for a few reasons. One, personal…
MapleStory 2 interview: The Soul Binder, PvP, music, the western front, and battling pay-to-win - [AL:MS2]MapleStory 2 charmed our previewer, our podcasters, even our writers when it came time for picking out the underdog MMO of 2018, thanks in large part to the deep mechanics…
Jukebox Heroes: Rappelz’ soundtrack - When you cover a metric ton of MMOs and other related games professionally, it becomes an interesting task to keep them all straight in your head. A futile task, I…
