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Neverwinter gives you a taste of its reimagined Sharandar
Hope you're ready for a heavy dose of the fantastical and mythological, because Neverwinter's about to crack open a portal to a strange...
Animal Crossing New Horizons teams up with Colourpop for makeup collab
File this one under first bizarre crossover of the year so far: Nintendo is releasing Animal Crossing: New Horizons branded makeup through
Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this past year?
So 2020 wasn't exactly the year a lot of us probably thought it was going to be in early January. Every bit of our...
Global Chat: Revisiting all of SOE’s game history
I'm always a sucker for a good timeline, which is why I perked up at seeing Wilhelm at Ancient Gaming Noob trace out...
Grim Dawn teases Shattered Realm additions as Crate announces new strategy game
Grim Dawn had a pretty good year in 2020, in spite of the ubiquitous challenges facing the world. According to a dev...
Elder Scrolls Online delays Gates of Oblivion reveal event to avoid inauguration day pandemonium
One of the big events MMO players were surely looking forward to this month was The Elder Scrolls Online's planned reveal of Gates...
Book of Travels names Baldur’s Gate, Moomins, classical art, and Studio Ghibli as its influences
When you're creating something, it's entirely natural to draw inspiration from and be influenced by works that have come before your own. That's most...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2020
Fun fact: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2021
Welcome to 2021, folks. It's not even going to have to try all that hard to be better than 2020!
For our first official
Whatever happened to Rappelz?
We haven't really had a look in the direction of the classic-style fantasy MMORPG Rappelz in a while save for a listen...
Upcoming MMO SEED’s playtest video is un-bear-able
With more playtests on the way for community colony simulator SEED coming this year, it's nice to get a glimpse at what we...
Massively Uplifting: Niantic, ArenaNet, and more MMO studios end 2020 on charitable high notes
Do you know what one of the best things about Massively Uplifting is? Although the world focuses on giving good deeds and Joy...
Global Chat: Checking out EverQuest II’s Reign of Shadows
Haven't had time to check out EverQuest II's latest expansion yet? Telwyn from GamingSF has you covered with some first impressions of Reign...
Battle Bards Episode 184: MapleStory 2
Nexon’s late, doomed MapleStory 2 gets a resurrection of sorts, as the Battle Bards salvage the soundtrack and deliver it, shining and sparkly,...
The best Massively OP community leaderboard polls, 2020 edition
We didn't do quite as many Leaderboard polls this year as in previous years, largely because... well, we've already asked a lot of...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2021
Really, there's only one valid resolution for 2021: make it suck less than 2020.
That aside, it's customary to ask the Massively OP writers to...
The Game Archaeologist: Seven ways EverQuest reshaped MMO history
To many veteran MMO players, the opening horns of EverQuest's score are enough to trigger vivid memories, violent hallucinations, and an unstoppable...
Wizard101 talks up 2021 stat rebalancing and PvP changes, Pirate101 adds a free respec for subscribers
The producer of Wizard101 really likes the world of Karamelle. That's part of the impression given by her recent producer's letter,...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020
Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for...
Open PvP MMORPG Profane provides a brief look at creature behavior in a recent video
What do a guy, a dog-sized porcupine, and a crab that looks like a rock have in common? They all feature in a
