DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today
Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...
Vague Patch Notes: Timesinks, sunk time, and MMOs
Here's a fun question I asked myself a lot back in the day: Why, exactly, did leveling take so long in Final Fantasy XI?
The obvious mechanical...
A player is leveling Priest in WoW Classic entirely by phone
In 2004 when World of Warcraft initially launched, leveling your character by phone presumably meant calling someone up from a land line and sitting there...
Guild Wars: RPG Maker is currently available in demo form
It's time to go back and play the original Guild Wars, but in far more single-player format than before! If you'd forgotten about the Guild Wars: RPG...
Book of Travels sucks you into a gorgeous online fairytale world
Every once in a long while, a game is announced that really makes us sit up and go "Oooh!" without any irony. Book of...
The Daily Grind: Do DPS numbers help you improve your play in an MMO?
Let's be perfectly clear here, this question is not meant to be theoretical but personal. Whether or not DPS numbers should be in World of Warcraft...
The Stream Team: Exploring Elder Scrolls Online’s Imperial City celebration
The Elder Scrolls Online's Imperial City Celebration has returned, and Massively OP's MJ is excited to join in with the help of the free...
TonyV leaves City of Heroes NCsoft negotiations, resigns from Titan Network
Over the course of the last few months, following the revelation of working City of Heroes server code out in the wild and the...
Star Wars Galaxies’ Legends rogue server plans PvP flashpoints and fresh ground/space content
Star Wars Galaxies fans know that the rogue server SWG Legends has been teasing new locales, Bespin and Felucia, for a few months now,...
Guild Wars 2 hypes Bound by Blood, loses a pair of devs, and sees Pink Day return
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...
City of Heroes: Homecoming plays with Rage crashes, PvP stuns, and Tanker powers on the test server
The PTS for the City of Heroes Homecoming servers is looking to tweak the knobs of the rogue MMO a bit. Yesterday's patch offered...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s Charles Boyd talks up Onslaught’s first planet, Onderon
The planet of Onderon has a much more vast story history than I was aware of, with the location used in comic book form,...
PSA: Lord of the Rings Online is slashing prices for the Helm’s Deep expansion
Lord of the Rings Online is notoriously reluctant to give any sort of price reductions for its expansions, so it's a good week indeed...
Blade & Soul is splitting damage types and adding new bracelets with the Storm of Arrows update
The next update for Blade & Soul is dubbed Storm of Arrows and that sounds absolutely horrifying. You might say "it's just a little rain" if...
PAX West 2019: Examining mental health and community in upcoming MMO Destiny’s Sword
Eager players packed the Washington State Convention Center at this year's PAX West, each greeted with games ranging from high-profile triple-A titles to more...
World of Warcraft’s private servers are emptying in the wake of WoW Classic, but they aren’t empty yet
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?...
Desert Oasis: Hunting for the best grindspots in Black Desert
Of all things, the one thing about Black Desert that everyone can agree on is that there's a grind. Players who choose this game...
Perfect Ten: The many modes of social experience in MMOs
There are two statements frequently made with regard to MMOs that seem like linked clauses, but they're not. "MMOs are social games" is a...
Black Desert patches in PC Altar of Blood events, Xbox One s’mores promo
It's patch day once again for Black Desert, as Kakao is pushing out both new additions to last week's life skill master update and...
Tamriel Infinium: The Elder Scrolls Online’s economy needs a casual friendly option
A few years ago, I was introduced to the concept of trading guilds. Trading guilds are unique to the The Elder Scrolls Online as...
