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During its livestream this afternoon, ZeniMax Online Studios busted out with something you probably weren't expecting for The Elder Scrolls Online today, though you knew it was coming eventually: an announcement for the game's next DLC. It's called Stonethorn, and along with update 27, it's launching "soon," with two new group dungeons, new gear, more performance improvements, changes for...

While Crowfall is inching that much closer to a fully announced beta, its current build needs some tweaking. That's the gist of what was discussed by creative director J. Todd Coleman and design director Thomas "Santabeard" Blair (nickname is of my own creation) in the latest developer Q&A discussion. One of the main highlights revolves around keeps and forts. In...

With Star Trek Online's House Divided update now out in the wild on PC (and earning kudos from our own writer), PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to give away in honor of the release! We've got five codes for the Federation Fleet Admiral Faction Pack and 50 codes for the Federation Elite Starter Pack,...

Today, Trove turns five years old! And Massively OP's MJ knows that five-year-olds get the best birthdays. There's the Sunfest celebration, a bonfire, and special Moontouched Menace boss encounter. Which house will MJ represent: Tysorion, Panatea, or Carys? And how many shadow piñatas can she burst open? Join us live at 2:00 p.m. for the birthday festivities. What: Trove Who: MJ...

It's been more than two years since the Perpetuum community took over the operation of the science fiction game, and in that time the player-based team has made a number of updates and improvements. But the newest one might be the most immediately and obvious to onlookers with a whole new class of robot, the new Destroyer. Mounting large...

As promised, Legends of Aria officially launched out of early access and into the wild last night. We should also probably say "finally," as this game has been around for a very long time. MMO vets will remember this as the game originally known as Shards Online, Kickstarted in 2014 as an online game offering play on official shards or...

Well, this is a decision that will no doubt draw forth reasoned discourse and carefully formatted reactions: Console players of Black Desert will be the first players in the Western versions of the game to get the new Hashashin class, which will arrive this coming Wednesday, July 22nd, as a timed exclusive. For anyone who's not familiar with this class,...

I've been mulling over how to do a piece about MMO housing for a while now, spurred on by colleagues and readers who've said they wanted a tour of my house in Star Wars Galaxies Legends. I didn't want to just dump out a video of my latest house as if to beg for compliments, and snagging video of...

It's always the right time to welcome new people into your favorite MMO, but sometimes the process of getting them on board can be complicated. But there's good news for Guild Wars 2; in the most recent set of patch datamining, user that_shaman uncovered text related to an upcoming new player guide to help those who are new to...

All right. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands kicks off its beta next week. I would kind of like to be involved in that! I am not expecting any miracles. So let's just talk about what happened in this week's reveal stream in the most coherent fashion possible because while I did do a live blog of the stream as it...