MMORPG

MMORPGs are massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, our core focus here on Massively OP. MMORPGs are traditionally differentiated from mere multiplayer games by their persistent worlds, massive playerbases and/or servers, customizable character development, and always-online status. [Follow the MMORPG category’s RSS feed]

Paladins bows to the Pumpking while Shroud of the Avatar throws a Halloween bash

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Everyone's getting into the spirit of Halloween this week! Shroud of the Avatar's community is throwing a Halloween-themed party to celebrate Release 35. The...

Happy fourth birthday, War Thunder

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Is every game having a birthday this week? MMO-lite War Thunder is crashing the cake-eating festivities with its own birthday party, and it's starting...

The Stream Team: Harvesting pumpkins for RIFT’s Halloween festival

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If you aren't a fan of pumpkins, fall is probably not your favorite season. Even in RIFT pumpkins are important! Massively OP's MJ has...

Marvel Heroes: Dark Dimensions and huge sales for Halloween

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OK, Marvel Heroes fans. Put down your candy pail and your Iron Man costumes. It's time for video game Halloween. "An unknown source has started...
Murlocs, naturally.

Here’s everything you can expect from BlizzCon 2016 next week

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Every year, BlizzCon arrives. And every year, Bree and I sit down and liveblog about the most pertinent event for our readers to follow...
Holy elves, Elfman!

Tencent, Activision Blizzard, and EA among top-grossing game companies this year so far

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If someone were to ask you which video game company was absolutely dominating the revenue charts in 2016, what would you say? Unless you...

Nexon reveals first trailer for the Tree of Savior Mobile Remake

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If you watched Tree of Savior's rocky western rollout this year thinking to yourself the whole time, "Wouldn't that game be so much more...

Star Citizen dishes on alpha 2.6 progress and procedural planets

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is ostensibly a check-in with the Frankfurt team, but there's quite a bit of teasing for 2.6...

SWTOR explains how Uprisings work, compensates for removal of content passes

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When Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne lands upon us like a Star Destroyer made out of words, players will...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO doesn’t have mounts — and needs them?

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Let's talk mounts and MMOs. When Star Wars Galaxies launched, it did not have vehicles. It had neither speederbikes nor or ridable tauntauns. For almost six...

The Scream Team: A Hide and Shriek duel

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Spooking strangers is certainly fun this time of year (or anytime, really!), but it doesn't beat spooking your friends! Massively OP's MJ and Justin...

Massively Overthinking: Our five favorite MMORPGs of all time

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Earlier this week, Redditor maxpower888 started an epic thread on the /r/mmorpg sub asking everyone to chime in and name his or her top five...

NCsoft and Webzen are both working on multiple mobile MMORPGs

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NCsoft and Webzen both have mobile games a-cookin'. We already knew about Lineage Red Knights and Lineage Mobile; there were announced a year ago as...
Boy-howdy, it's a bar.

Dark and Light shows off a small sampling of its creatures

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We've seen the landscapes of Snail Games' upcoming Dark and Light, but just landscapes alone aren't enough to make a game. What's a landscape...
Exploding AoE mine-person.

Neverwinter fixes ‘bug’ that allowed players to preview lockboxes, ragestorm ensues

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When it comes to lockboxes, enticing players to pay money for a random chance at goods has always been the hook behind this system....
what

World of Tanks and Warships get into the swing of Halloween

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Beware what you name your ships because irony loves to strike when namers are careless. Take for instance World of Warships' Transylvania. This poor...
Cozy. Antique!

Revelation Online previews two more closed beta dungeons

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Are you ready to take on the dungeons of Revelation Online's closed beta being previewed today? Probably not! The beta isn't starting until November...

Halloween sinks its fangs into Tree of Life, Fractured Space, and Mortal Online

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The avalanche of MMO Halloween events continues to thunder down over us, and we are digging as fast as we can to stay on...
phaserbeeeeeeeeeeeeeams

Star Trek Online reports over a million console captains in a new infographic

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A couple of players have been attracted to Star Trek Online on console, and by "a couple" we mean "a little over one million."...

Weird Al Yankovic will headline this year’s BlizzCon

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Satirical music star Weird Al Yankovic will headline this year's BlizzCon, Blizzard announced this afternoon, closing out the convention with his show on November...