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If you haven't had enough New Year's ball dropping yet, join MassivelyOP's MJ in ARK for another! The devs have given survivors a massive orb that will descend from the sky to bring joy and hope and gifts to all on the island (or maybe utter destruction). It touches down at noon, so tune in live at 11:00 a.m....

Does Activision Blizzard see the business world as one big garage sale from which to cherry-pick deals? It certainly seems so, as the company has snapped up another acquisition for its portfolio: much of the assets of Major League Gaming. Major League Gaming was an e-sports company, and we say "was" because it recently went out of business. MLG's board of...

During any online discussion about MMORPG payment models, someone will inevitably lament that subscriptions are better because they don't nickel-and-dime you with a cash shop. Someone else will then point out that the vast majority of subscription games that are left in the genre do indeed have cash shops. There was a time when a sparklepony was a rare...

It's been really hard for MassivelyOP's MJ to resist diving into The Secret World's Issue #13 so she could share it with you all, but she did it. (Of course she had Krampus and the Christmas events to keep her distracted!) And now she can finally follow the Trail of Shadows to see where it leads. Join us live...

Imagine you have a friend who wants to play an MMO but doesn't want to get involved in a game that's in decline or might not be around in five years. Where do you steer that friend? Which current or forthcoming MMO has the brightest future? I posed this question to the Massively OP writers for this week's Overthinking in...

As the holiday season and in-game events in most MMOs wind down, Festivult in Dungeons and Dragons Online is ticking to a close as well. Players have until January 3rd to plunder festival coins and turn them in for special rewards. Of course, they'll have to track down the elusive Festivult Jester -- who keeps changing location -- to get...

The holidays are pretty well and truly over for most of us, but they're not so far in the past that we can't get a little stir when we see videos celebrating the holidays. So while the new holiday video from Allods Online is a bit past the point when we would be seriously concerned about hanging ornaments and...

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. December has been a surprisingly busy month in spite of the holidays, and rising to the occasion was Star Citizen, which launched its 2.0 alpha, passed the $100 million mark, and offered up trailer...

What better way to blast out the old year than with giant guns? MassivelOP's MJ was just starting to get the hang of piloting a giant mech last time, and she wants to continue practicing her skills. OK, OK,  so she really wants to blow things up! Tune in live at 4:00 p.m. as MJ says good-bye to 2015...

The year 2015 will go down in memory as a tumultuous time to be a fan of EverQuest and EverQuest II. Even disregarding all of the updates that the games themselves had, you can't distance the titles from the ballyhoo around Daybreak Games and the long radio silence surrounding EverQuest Next. So it seems apropos that the teams behind...