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This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2016. August began with the news that World of Warcraft had lost another 1.5 million subscriptions, dropping from 10 million in the months following the launch of Warlords of Draenor. But the month turned around...

When you can't play in person, there's nothing that beats having someone on the ground in person to report back about an upcoming game. So you Tree of Savior fans can thank Steparu, who has been playing the heck out of the open beta and has made a few videos to show off in-game adventures and classes. Hit the break...

When the Choose My Adventure column was first begun many years ago on Massively-that-was, it was an adventure entirely in the hands of the readers. The author, often different from game to game, left every decision to the whims of the voters, including the game itself. CMA has evolved over time to be less susceptible to community brigading and more an extended...

Nothing like an end-of-the-year patch to herd players away from pesky holiday parties and familial bonding and back toward the games that love them so much more! This week World of Warships blazed ahead with Update 0.5.2, cramming a ton of content into the game for those last few days of 2015. The patch kicks off by opening up a...

Aw, you guys! The call for winter and holiday screenshots proved to be a sustaining request, as many of you kept sending in more and more pictures from your gaming folders. As a result, here's a second column in a row celebrating the season! We'll kick off with this artsy shot of reader Jake in The Secret World. "The Secret...

Usually when I hear "professional e-sports tournament" I tune out, mostly because three of those words hold no personal interest or applicability. However, it might behoove the non-professional among us to check out War Thunder's Thunder League, as fans can win prizes as well as the teams participating. Viewers of every tournament stream have a chance to win one of...

Having written about it recently, I found myself thinking that it might not even matter if Phantasy Star Online 2 even comes out in North America. Seriously, it's been out for three years now with no sign of localization. If it came out tomorrow, would anyone care any longer? Would people just write it off as yesterday's jam? It's not...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, The Repopulation suspended its test servers thanks to the HeroEngine fiasco, though Above & Beyond says it is working on a solution and isn't giving up. Meanwhile, Dogma: Eternal Night's Kickstarter came to a close unfulfilled, Project Gorgon was delayed on Steam, and Camelot Unchained delivered a massive crafting reveal and interview for the...

Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most Predictable MMO Delay. And the winner is... The Division The Division was unveiled at E3 in 2013. In January of 2014, an anonymous Ubisoft employee said the planned 2014 launch date of The Division was "laughable," so the delay to 2015 wasn't unexpected. In May 2015, the delay to Q1 2016 wasn't...

MassivelyOP's MJ can't help it: She loves holiday festivals! And LOTRO's Yule festival is full of fun winter activities that reward participants with tokens to buy housing items and mounts. Do you want to build a snowman? Or maybe star in a play? How about try to out-eat a Hobbit? MJ will do all this and more when she...