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Earlier this week, we granted our formal award for the biggest MMO story of the year. But biggest doesn't necessarily mean best or most...

Advance warning: If you like crafting in MMOs, then you best not read the latest post from Contains Moderate Peril, who is not...

It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst...

Getting started in a sandbox like The Repopulation always seems to be the hardest landing to stick. I should know; I've played more...

Just ahead of the holiday, NCsoft announced that Will of Iron was on its way to Blade & Soul, with the Rise...

When you dive through the gates of Hell once more for Diablo IV, you are not going to find the same-old itemization system...

Many game devs are extremely mum about how they come to determine a player's competitive rating. Not Hearthstone, which seems to be all...

Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.

An odd, offbeat, and short-lived MMO, Chronicles of Spellborn hardly registered on most of the gaming community’s consciousness. However, this fantasy title has not...

A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...

Where the Beyond update in No Man's Sky changed the game, the upcoming Synthesis update will refine it. This new large-scale...

Going through our coverage of 2019's MMOs, I realized there are a bunch of games that have previously been on our "anticipated" lists that...

Remember back in October, when Frontier announced that it was listening to player feedback and bumping off Elite Dangerous' big December content update...

Is blue a color? An emotion? A song? An overused alien skin tone? One thing is for certain: Blue shows up an awful lot...

For just a few short weeks of its now 15-year lifespan, EverQuest II existed apart from a launched World of Warcraft. Then late November...

How much is too much information about a game? That depends on how much the game actually has on offer. Over the years, we've...

I use to think of betas as being unpaid labor for video game companies, but maybe I've been going about it all wrong.

Just before Halloween, Legends of Aria's Citadel Studios announced some sweeping changes coming to the early access sandbox. After revamping its PvP...

Gonna be honest, I am really excited to see this dev blog that went up on the Guild Wars 2 website today, not...

RuneScape is a pretty old game, but it has a new way of doing business as a free-to-play MMORPG with various microtransaction models...