Events

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The Stream Team: Jumping into ArcheAge’s fifth anniversary

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Well if it has to be Monday, it least it's a party day! ArcheAge turns five years old today, and the sandbox has celebrations...

Dofus celebrates 15 years of operation with a meta event and plans to launch a retro server

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One of my favorite things about this genre is how the "lesser-loved" titles can keep on truckin' thanks to an established and engaged playerbase...

Players held a steamy Release 69 ‘dance party’ in Shroud of the Avatar

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We assume most MMO players are at least aware of the more "adult" roleplaying that goes on in the quiet corners of our genre...

Pirate holidays make landfall in LOTRO and World of Warcraft this week

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Disclaimer: This author's family threw him a pirate-themed 30th birthday party and he walked the plank and it was definitely an amazing experience. Double...

The MOP Up: Plants vs. Zombies goes multiplayer

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Do you remember that quirky personality-filled Plants vs. Zombies lane defense game from way back when? Popcap has been expanding that series franchise ever...

Crowfall’s ongoing Trials of the Gods moves on to Yaga, goddess of magic

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Crowfall players have fought in the name of Gaea the Earth Mother, and now it's time to fight in the name of the goddess...

The Stream Team: Experience AdventureQuest 3D’s new Friday the 13th dungeon

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No one has a better Friday the 13th event than AQ3D, and this year there's a brand-new dungeon in Camp Gonnagetcha. Massively OPs MJ...

Ingress Prime’s upcoming Hexathlon will kick off a new series of events for the AR mobile title

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There's a new series of events coming to the AR mobile game Ingress Prime, the first of which is a lineup of tasks that...
Cool, we'll meet the meat.

Fallout 76 offers up another Meat Week for cleaning up Appalachia

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Appalachia is kind of a mess in Fallout 76. To be fair, so is the world as a whole since nuclear conflicts tend to end...
Break on through to the other side.

Champions Online’s third anniversary week brings back Dr. Destroyer and his Destroid robots

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It's been some time since Champions Online launched, but we've finally learned a great truth about the game's major villain: Despite his grammatically ambiguous name,...
Uh... huh. Is that what this game is about?

Aion celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a plethora of in-game events

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It's Aion's birthday! The game has been running for a decade now, which means that various proclamations that the title was dead over the course...

Star Trek Online is bringing back the horror-themed Hearts and Minds mission for Friday the 13th

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At the time of this story's writing, it is Friday the 13th, which either brings to mind goofy horror monsters, bad luck traditions, or...

Dungeons and Dragons Online dishes out anniversary gifts

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While we usually convene here at Massively OP to discuss game launch anniversaries, today we have something slightly different: the launch of a business...

Guild Wars 2 hypes Bound by Blood, loses a pair of devs, and sees Pink Day return

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Time to bundle together some Guild Wars 2 headlines! Also I get to play with a bulleted list some more. Yay formatting! Let's tuck...
The vista

World of Warcraft’s private servers are emptying in the wake of WoW Classic, but they aren’t empty yet

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So, who figured that the people playing World of Warcraft emulators would all jump ship in order to play on the official version of WoW Classic?...
Oh, boo-hoo.

EVE Online offers grief counseling for ship losses and celebrates exploration record

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What's the hardest part of EVE Online for new players? It looks like CCP Games is betting that it's the sting when your first ship...

The MOP Up: Catching up with Runes of Magic

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It's been a while since we've checked in with Runes of Magic! So what's going on with this fantasy MMO these days? For starters,...
Similar, but not the same.

EverQuest II kicks off prelude events for its unannounced 2019 expansion

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With GU111 Carnage in Kael behind us, we're heading into expansion season for EverQuest II. The expansion hasn't officially been announced yet, so we...

The 10th anniversary of Champions Online continues with new and returning events

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The birthday celebrations for Champions Online continue as the MMO celebrates 10 years the only way it knows how: with presents for players. In addition...

PAX West 2019: Elder Scrolls Online’s Rich Lambert on performance, LFG, and dragons

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"Oh man! A new Skyrim!?" proclaimed an eager con-goer as I waited outside The First & Bell in Seattle. As I entered, the venue...

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