2020 eoty community

As I'm sitting down to write this annual Daily Grind, I find myself wishing I could flip it around and talk about the MMO...

Yep, it's that time of year again: We've been doing this recap for the last several years, although this one is going to be...

Here's a sobering but fun tradition we've done at the top of the year ever since MOP commenter deekay suggested it back in 2016:...

Ages back, we used to run a "most innovative MMO" award, and it was one I always liked because it was a good spot...

I think I managed to make it all the way through 2020 without Kickstarting a single game, or anything at all, for that matter....

Longtime readers will know we've been granting an official end-of-the-year award for the most underrated MMO for several years now. But it comes along...

It's been a long time since a brand-new MMORPG really deserved a GOTY award - in fact, my my reckoning, it was was 2016,...

At the end of every year for almost as long as I can recall, we've delivered our "most anticipated" award. The winners in 2019...

Let's be honest, most gamers are not in fact made of money, and so we spend a lot of time thinking about (and arguing...

There hasn't yet been time for any major updates or changes to hit most games in 2021. That's just the reality; we've only been...

Congrats! You've managed to survive one of the toughest years of your life, and you looked amazing doing it! In fact, how do you...

It's been a longstanding problem that end-of-the-year awards for MMORPGs aren't ideal for honoring "classic" MMOs, especially the really old games, really small games,...

This terrible year is almost behind us, and that means it's time to start thinking about the next one. Which brings to mind resolutions...

We have a rule at MOP: "Save your recordings." This is specifically because studios have said things to us on the record and then...

Years ago, it was a MOP tradition around the end of the year to speculate on which MMORPG that hadn't yet gone free-to-play would...

I thought 2019 was a big year for console thanks to Black Desert's multiple console launches, but 2020 was far from shabby itself. The...

So here's a fun Daily Grind we've been doing for the last few years, and it seems fitting to bring it back around today,...

A Massively Overthinking roundtable about MMOs with bright future that we did a few years ago was so popular that we decided to make...

As is tradition around MOP, we always follow up our award for best gaming trend with a discussion of the worst trend too because...

A few years back, we retired our award for the best PvP experience in an MMO, largely because neither our writers nor readers really...