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The Division 2 announces March 17 arrival to Stadia with PC cross-play

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It's too early to tell whether this will be the shot in the arm the Stadia needs to its anemic and generally unattractive to...

EVE Online’s next Skilling Spree event adds a PvP component

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The popular Skilling Spree and Chilling Spree events of EVE Online are coming back to the game, but this time there's a PvP-shaped wrinkle...

Frontier tells Elite Dangerous fans there are ‘no plans’ to return GalNet and other lore initiatives to the game

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(This post has been updated at the end.) Over the course of February, we covered a growing thunderstorm in the Elite Dangerous community about...
Speculation.

Ashes of Creation shares the lore and the development of the Scalerunner mount

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Ashes of Creation is adding a new mount, and as is often the case when this happens, there's a big ol' lore dump that...

Path of Exile addresses Atlas of Worlds adjustment concerns raised by players

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A few days ago, Grinding Gear Games brought up a number of adjustments that are coming to the Atlas of Worlds in Path of...
WRONG KIND OF SHINE

Final Fantasy XI announces its new Odyssey content with the next patch

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Hey, remember when we mentioned with every single post about Final Fantasy XI that the game was supposed to be in maintenance mode? It's still...
You all just hate me because you don't like me and I'm mean all the time.

Another World of Warcraft: Shadowlands encrypted alpha build is out now

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When is the start of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands testing? Well, on a small scale it seems to have already happened, since the latest encrypted...

For Science: Academics blast APA’s updated resolution on games and aggression

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My Twitter feed was on fire about three things today: politics, coronavirus, and violence in video games. The last entry there is all because...

Lord of the Rings Online introduces a new raid and several class adjustments in its latest update

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Hope you're up on your Sindarin, because the latest content update for Lord of the Rings Online has a whole mess of it. Specifically,...

The coronavirus has shut down another six gaming and tech events

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Another day, another round of gaming and tech event cancellations over growing fears of the spreading coronavirus. Epic Games, which had already exited GDC even...
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Black Desert patches in crossplay for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4

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If you were hoping that today's crossplay patch for Black Desert would allow all platforms to group together under one banner, you would be wrong......
Are we shut down yet?

Shroud of the Avatar croons over its Bardic skill tree

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If you know anything about us here at Massively OP, it's that any news of Bards being added to MMOs brings the most beautiful...

Destiny 2’s Season of the Worthy sorts out winners and losers next week

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Here's a reality check for you: Destiny 2 is about to go into its 10th season since the game launched back in 2017. Things...
Well... cool.

Rend’s music won the 2019 IFMCA Award for a video game score despite sunset

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The world can be a weird place. Rend has won the 2019 International Film Music Critics Association award for Best Original Score for a Video...

Ultima Online adds barrel punching to house decay, Dark Age of Camelot answers a grab bag of questions

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For those MMORPG players who like their games a bit more old school, there's some new updates coming out of Ultima Online and Dark...
North north north.

Black Desert Mobile adds in the North Mediah region

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If you're going on a trip, you can bring Black Desert Mobile with you... and perhaps ironically, the game itself is bringing you on a trip...

TERA announces Kaia’s Anvil for PC in March, drops Forsaken Island and auto-fishing for console

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TERA fans on PC are getting new dungeons and new rewards for running them with En Masse's March content update. "Kaia’s Anvil’ will launch in...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 261: PAX yay, GDC nay

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Justin and Bree discuss PAX East, GDC, the coronavirus' impact on gaming, Magic Legends, Population Zero, Marvel Future Revolution, LOTRO and DDO, Funcom and Dune, and City of Heroes, plus adventures in AQ3D, CoH, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on everything MMOs and the doom of WildStar.

Star Wars Galaxies Legends celebrates four years online, teases next year’s goodies

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Happy fourth birthday, Star Wars Galaxies Legends! The most popular NGE rogue server for SWG has been marking its fourth anniversary with a new...
Everything is fine! No, really, this time we mean it!

Bethesda showcases Fallout 76 Wastelanders’ chatty NPCs in a panel

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Last week, we were told an awful lot about the dialogue system and NPC interaction that's arriving to Fallout 76, but now we're being...

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