TERA’s multi-month summer festival offers icy treats and sandcastles
This may be the closest you get to a beach party this summer, so drink it up: TERA's summer festival has officially begun this...
Fractured starts its next alpha test today
The original plan for Fractured was to kick off its next alpha testing session on July 16th. That didn't happen, unfortunately; bugs cropped up...
EverQuest releases a 20th anniversary vinyl soundtrack
Fun fact: While sales of music CDs have dropped dramatically over the past decade, vinyl sales have increased even in the face of the...
Perfect Ten: Ten reasons Fallout 76 is good, actually
Here's the thing about criticism: It isn't mutually exclusive with appreciation. You can like something that you also criticize -- and your head won't...
Final Fantasy XIV has cancelled its Japanese Fan Festival scheduled for December
This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but Final Fantasy XIV will not be hosting any fan gatherings this year. The North American...
Black Desert adds a tactics-based PvE arena, a summertime quiz, and a trial that gives away the game
Free game alert, though with a bit of an asterisk: Black Desert is offering a free trial starting now until August 5th that can...
The Elder Scrolls Online previews a whole castle full of the undead with Castle Thorn
Castle Thorn in The Elder Scrolls Online has lots of undead. No, really, it has more undead than that. They're squirting out of the...
World of Warcraft connects two EU realms while planning its Heroic raid testing for Shadowlands
It's almost time to make sure that heroic raids are sufficiently... well, whatever they're supposed to be in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It can't...
Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.3 gets a trailer along with more patch details ahead of August 11
Patch 5.3, Reflections in Crystal, arrives in Final Fantasy XIV on August 11th after an unusually long delay. But if you need to see...
Guild Wars 2’s voice actors miss you, too
On the last episode of the podcast, Bree said that she was going to hold off playing any of the newer Guild Wars 2...
The Daily Grind: What were some of the most memorable MMO outages?
This past week, many Lord of the Rings Online players impatiently nibbled on lembas bread and took to Reddit as several of the North...
Sandbox MMORPG Past Fate readies another Kickstarter campaign and shows off alpha footage
Alright, this one is going to need a bit of a refresher. Past Fate is a sandbox MMORPG that we showcased last December which...
Black Desert player opens over 1,000 Oasis Dream Chests during a livestream
Remember when Black Desert had the Find Your Oasis event where players could earn Oasis Dream Chests full of stuff? How many of those...
Yoink a MU Online, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift bundle in Webzen’s summer 2020 giveaway
Webzen is celebrating summer once again with a long list of events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU Online, Rappelz, Flyff,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 280: Middle-earth practices social distancing
Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.
RuneScape invites players to return to The Beach and offers a chance at a Cerberus pet
This week in RuneScape appears to be pretty focused on events. For one thing, the summertime Beach is back between now and August 10th,...
Ultima Online’s 109th update has arrived with new dynamic tools for event GMs
Happy patch day to Ultima Online fans! Publish 109 is live for the almost-23-year-old MMORPG, and it's a bit different from previous publishes, which...
The Stream Team: Socially un-distant undead are sieging AQ3D’s Battleon!
So many new things arrived recently in AQ3D that Massively OP's MJ couldn't experience them all at once. Apparently, undead are craving some social...
Choose My Adventure: Accidentally going to Hell and other Dungeons and Dragons Online misadventures
I’m only level 3 and already Dungeons and Dragons Online has elected to whup my ass.
By the barest margin, the polls said to pick...
Hello there! Star Wars The Old Republic just officially launched on Steam
Remember back when EA refused to put much of anything on Steam, lest it compete with its own Origin platform? Those days have fast...
